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Writing Metrics for March 21, 2011

I wrote 426 semi-creative words and a great many legal words, right up until 1:30 a.m. It was one of those kinds of days.

I also made more progress on Adrian Tchaikovsky's Dragonfly Falling. I've got the next one in the series, Blood of the Mantis, on hand. Hooray for libraries!

But despite libraries, I received a huge shipment of books from Amazon yesterday. I'd been putting off buying anything from Amazon, saving my pennies like any woman whose husband is retiring this spring ought to do, but I have my limits. (They're not exactly strict limits, but nonetheless, I do have them.) I got all the books for my reading group, several graphic novels, and everything Kevin Brockmeier has written that I didn't already have -- and one thing that Kevin Brockmeier has written that I did already have. Ooops.

My immediate reading future contains The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham; The Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones; The Judging Eye by R. Scott Baker; Nell Gwynne's Scarlet Spy by Kage Baker; and Hamlet's Father by Orson Scott Card. It's always nice to have a plan!

By Terry Weyna at 2011-03-22 09:49 | | Terry Weyna's blog | login or register to post comments

The Crossover Conundrum

So, in your opinion, is The Manual of Detection literary, or fantasy? I was in Copperfield's the other day and they had it located in the Mystery section. I thought it was literary fantasy when I read it, but I'm curious about your take. (Not that it matters, it's just an interesting discussion.)

Marion

By Marion at 2011-03-22 10:36 | login or register to post comments

That one's difficult

I didn't think that was ultimately a successful book, but I suppose I'd put it on the fantasy side of the fence -- and not really the "literary fantasy" side, just the plain "fantasy" side. Though of course you can slice this apple a million ways and into a million categories, so....

By Terry Weyna at 2011-03-25 16:58 | login or register to post comments

I Liked it Better than You Did

I thought it had some problems. I wasn't sure whether they were structural problems or plotting problems, but I enjoyed the whimsey and his prose. I loved the imagery.

Marion

By Marion at 2011-03-27 10:27 | login or register to post comments

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