Odds and Ends
I'd like to say I've been writing my novel, which is why I haven't been blogging. That works for Friday's excuse. Saturday was spent setting up the new computer, and Sunday transferring all the files I need from my laptop, which is threatening to die. Then I got distracted by Stephanie Meyer's excellent young adult novel Twilight, and it's gone down hill from there.
That said, I think my groove has arrived. I'm going to go heat up lunch in the mircowave, turn off all of the pesky e-mail notifications that distract me, and buckle down this afternoon.
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Here are the odds and ends:
* Serenity just won the SFX magazine poll for best sci-fi movie. It beat the original Star Wars. Kudos, Mr. Whedon, kudos!
* I just reread the Campbell award contestants for the Hugos and realized that Brandon Sanderson (mistborn) and Sarah Monette (who wrote the exceptional novel Melusine and its sequel, which I have yet to read) are both on the list! I have no idea how I would choose between them, as their first novels both blew me away. Elantris and Melusine are very different novels, to be sure, but they struck similar chords with me, possibly because I connected with the themes of aloneness and seeking out fellowship in both of them--whether that was intentional on the part of the authors or not.
In short, both are excellent books, and both authors are long ahead of my reading now, as Sanderson's new book Mistborn is waiting patiently for me on my shelf, and I'll have to reread Melusine before I can pick up the sequel, Virtue. I wish both authors the best of luck on that Campbell list!
(Note to self: Maybe I'll read the Campbell authors this year instead of the Hugo competitors. Hmmmm... I need a book group to motivate me. If anyone else wants to make going through the Hugo awards--in whatever capacity--a goal, leave me a note and we can be a livejournal book group!)
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Regaining Home progress:
43,111 / 90,000
(47.9%)
That said, I think my groove has arrived. I'm going to go heat up lunch in the mircowave, turn off all of the pesky e-mail notifications that distract me, and buckle down this afternoon.
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Here are the odds and ends:
* Serenity just won the SFX magazine poll for best sci-fi movie. It beat the original Star Wars. Kudos, Mr. Whedon, kudos!
* I just reread the Campbell award contestants for the Hugos and realized that Brandon Sanderson (mistborn) and Sarah Monette (who wrote the exceptional novel Melusine and its sequel, which I have yet to read) are both on the list! I have no idea how I would choose between them, as their first novels both blew me away. Elantris and Melusine are very different novels, to be sure, but they struck similar chords with me, possibly because I connected with the themes of aloneness and seeking out fellowship in both of them--whether that was intentional on the part of the authors or not.
In short, both are excellent books, and both authors are long ahead of my reading now, as Sanderson's new book Mistborn is waiting patiently for me on my shelf, and I'll have to reread Melusine before I can pick up the sequel, Virtue. I wish both authors the best of luck on that Campbell list!
(Note to self: Maybe I'll read the Campbell authors this year instead of the Hugo competitors. Hmmmm... I need a book group to motivate me. If anyone else wants to make going through the Hugo awards--in whatever capacity--a goal, leave me a note and we can be a livejournal book group!)
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Regaining Home progress:
43,111 / 90,000
(47.9%)