The Blog of Excuses

Yes, that's what I should have named this: The Blog of Excuses. I did a lot of thinking this weekend. I realized that pretty much every post here is an announcement of my progress, followed immediately by an excuse of why I haven't made even more progress.

No longer.

No more excuses. I will either do or accept. I will do my work, make my words, or I will accept the choices I've made that caused me not to do the work and move on from there.

That being said, tonight was a GREAT writing night!!! I pumped out 591 words rather effortlessly. (Assisted by the cooperation of my wonderful dog, who deserves mention here for being placated with a relatively brief play session and a Greenie even though he was in his crate all day.) My chapter 2 is enormous. The crime scene has evolved and I've introduced 2 characters that appeared nowhere in my plotting. I think I want to weave one into the main plot story and the second is probably going to end up as a here and there sort of acquaintance of my MC's. I originally thought I could cram all of the crime scene into one chapter, but I think I'm actually going to split it into three chapters. Definitely at least two.

In other news, I burned through Keri Arthur's DANGEROUS GAMES this weekend. I tell you, I cannot get enough of Riley Jenson and her world. Just fantastic. And I love, love, love that the four novels in this series came out back to back in four months. The next one is due out in June, I think. Maybe July. Great world building, great plotting, hot sex, strong heroine, lots of action -- I give them all a perfect 10. I can't wait to see what Keri's cooked up for the next book.

After a brief mourning period following the last page of Dangerous Games, I grabbed the next book off my stack of Books To Read Before RT (which I'm SO not going to make it through... oh well). Which happens to be Marjorie Liu's TIGER EYE. I'd never heard of Ms. Liu before, but RT was heralding her as one of the most popular UF authors. As it turns out, she's more paranormal romance (which explains why I hadn't already read her, since I read far less PR than UF). But oooooooooh she's lovely. Her writing is just delicious. Imagine putting Janet Fitch through therapy and asking her to write a paranormal romance novel. Ok, that's a weird description. But Marjorie's got that same gorgeous way of writing that Janet does where she plucks a seemingly unlikely combination of words and weaves them together to perfectly capture what she's trying to say. However, I consider Janet's work to have a pretty strong undercurrent of sorrow and pain (maybe it's just the themes of her two books?) and Marjorie doesn't have that. Oh, it's just gorgeous. It's the kind of book that makes me want to underline words, phrases, whole paragraphs even. She makes me want to write in the margins and I haven't felt like that in a long time. Oh, and the story line is good, too. ;)

Damn, this is long. Apparently I really wasn't done yet tonight! But I am done now. I'm off to start a list of what I need to bring to RT and then curl up with Tiger Eye before bed.

8,085 / 100,000 (8.1%)