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Jul. 3rd, 2010 12:14 pmLiveblogging the novel revision process, because how else am I supposed to document my life for the Internet/distract my brain?
(Also, this being my first attempt to Revise A Novel, I think that there will be some stuff that I run across that I might want to come back to later, revisit or rethink.)
( today's adventures )
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Also! Yesterday I finally read Graceling. I had heard good things about it since it came out, but hadn't gotten around to reading it before. (Volunteering at a library twice a week: there is no excuse for not checking out things you've been meaning to read.) I liked it, for many of the same reasons everyone else did, I think--it was well-written and it subverts several fantasy tropes, which made me happy. But then it seemed to use a couple of other tropes unexamined, which made me slightly less happy. Um. But no book is perfect, so there you go. (I could be more specific, but obviously I didn't get around to reading this until yesterday so I don't want to assume that everyone else has read it already. I'd be up for talking about it, though!) (Okay, all right, spoilers-sort-of in comments. You are warned.)
(Also, this being my first attempt to Revise A Novel, I think that there will be some stuff that I run across that I might want to come back to later, revisit or rethink.)
( today's adventures )
---
Also! Yesterday I finally read Graceling. I had heard good things about it since it came out, but hadn't gotten around to reading it before. (Volunteering at a library twice a week: there is no excuse for not checking out things you've been meaning to read.) I liked it, for many of the same reasons everyone else did, I think--it was well-written and it subverts several fantasy tropes, which made me happy. But then it seemed to use a couple of other tropes unexamined, which made me slightly less happy. Um. But no book is perfect, so there you go. (I could be more specific, but obviously I didn't get around to reading this until yesterday so I don't want to assume that everyone else has read it already. I'd be up for talking about it, though!) (Okay, all right, spoilers-sort-of in comments. You are warned.)