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aamcnamaraToday was a Day Of Things Which Were Not Progress On The Novel. These days happen.
Things included, um, lying about, drinking tea, posting to the Ideomancer community (Atlas of Imagination! Still up and running!), working on the still-untitled short story, taking a nap (I pretty much never take naps, so this was of note), walking to the store to buy food, and seeing How to Train Your Dragon (which was cute! Though of questionable morality at some points).
Rainy cold days make me want to work on this short story, apparently, which says bad things about how cheerful the story is. All of those bad things are true, with cherries on top. It is a story of Doom and Gloom, so it's... sorta nice the weather's cooperating, really.
With luck, though, tomorrow I'll leap out of bed and work on the novel. Spending a day working on something else once in a while is probably good for me, but I don't want to lose too much momentum.
The Demon's Lexicon, with as few spoilers as possible: hmm. I'd gotten spoiled for the main spoiler of the book long before I read it, so I'm not sure how it would've read if I hadn't known that going in. There were a couple of parts where I was confused, either with logic or presentation of material, but they all sort of made sense eventually. I liked the Goblin Market a lot, and I found it refreshing (and awesome!) to have a queer character whose sexuality was present in the text but wasn't really made a big deal of. Result: I'll read the sequel, though I don't plan to buy either at this point.
Also, I took my tiny laser apart entirely today. It had a laser diode inside. I'm pretty sure it's irreparable now, which is a pity, but what would I really use a laser pointer for anyway? Taking it apart was entertaining, at any rate.
Things included, um, lying about, drinking tea, posting to the Ideomancer community (Atlas of Imagination! Still up and running!), working on the still-untitled short story, taking a nap (I pretty much never take naps, so this was of note), walking to the store to buy food, and seeing How to Train Your Dragon (which was cute! Though of questionable morality at some points).
Rainy cold days make me want to work on this short story, apparently, which says bad things about how cheerful the story is. All of those bad things are true, with cherries on top. It is a story of Doom and Gloom, so it's... sorta nice the weather's cooperating, really.
With luck, though, tomorrow I'll leap out of bed and work on the novel. Spending a day working on something else once in a while is probably good for me, but I don't want to lose too much momentum.
The Demon's Lexicon, with as few spoilers as possible: hmm. I'd gotten spoiled for the main spoiler of the book long before I read it, so I'm not sure how it would've read if I hadn't known that going in. There were a couple of parts where I was confused, either with logic or presentation of material, but they all sort of made sense eventually. I liked the Goblin Market a lot, and I found it refreshing (and awesome!) to have a queer character whose sexuality was present in the text but wasn't really made a big deal of. Result: I'll read the sequel, though I don't plan to buy either at this point.
Also, I took my tiny laser apart entirely today. It had a laser diode inside. I'm pretty sure it's irreparable now, which is a pity, but what would I really use a laser pointer for anyway? Taking it apart was entertaining, at any rate.