"The hunted look, the haunted grace..."

Dec 14, 2010 12:20

Very, very cold here in Providence (25F, feels like 14F) with an overcast sky.

Yesterday, I wrote 1,858 words on Chapter Three (3) of The Drowning Girl. As it stands, I'm 20,970 words into the manuscript, which means I'm probably somewhere between one third and one quarter of my way to THE END, if upon this book's completion it's going to look ( Read more... )

second life, angela carter, the drowning girl, winter, sleep, warcraft, china miéville, gaming, thomas hardy, audiobooks, insilico

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girfan December 14 2010, 17:48:35 UTC
Agreed, Kraken is a very funny book. :D

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greygirlbeast December 14 2010, 18:10:51 UTC

Agreed, Kraken is a very funny book.

That facet of it surprised me more than it probably should have. All the same, marvelous.

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stsisyphus December 14 2010, 20:55:22 UTC
I've compared it to a 1970s police/caper television series. I'm sorta baffled why people want to tack "Lovecraftian" to it. Well, I'm not really baffled. It has a squid, but really outside of that, there's really no relation.

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greygirlbeast December 14 2010, 21:08:18 UTC

I'm sorta baffled why people want to tack "Lovecraftian" to it. Well, I'm not really baffled. It has a squid, but really outside of that, there's really no relation.

Except for people worshiping an octopoid/tuethid god, and direct allusions to Cthulhu...

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stsisyphus December 15 2010, 04:32:31 UTC
Except for people worshiping an octopoid/tuethid god, and direct allusions to Cthulhu...

Yeah, but the tone is still off. Eh. Forget I mentioned it.

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