Another much needed quiet day
Though I got a lot of writing done last night: RP tags, a one-thousand word Torchwood fic and the latest in the 100 Words, 100 Days fics. I think I could quite easily go for another hundred days, since I still have a long list of prompts yet to be used, courtesy of fuda_100. This is the most I've written in a while, especially after my recent bouts of illness of all kinds, and I'm quite proud of myself.
Other than that, a fairly quiet day, aside from a run up to the bank to deposit my tax refund check and continuing to read a few odds and ends, including "A Local Habitation", also Veronica Roth's "Divergent".
Now, I have to pause for a moment here and say, its probably just me, but can we have some teen/young adult dystopia novels that don't involve kids testing each other physically? Granted, the physical trials in Divergent is more like a boot camp than the Battle Royale/Hunger Games model, but... I'd just like a change of pace to mix it up a bit. I'm the last person to tell anyone what to write, but for the sake of diversity and contrast, can we have kids testing themselves in other ways? Trials of the wits? Brains versus brawn? Brains working with brawn?
Mind you, I like the fact that part of Divergent involves the fact that... arbitrary labels kind of don't really stick on actual human beings, that people are really too complicated to be sorted into one set of characteristics. It's the one thing that twigged me a bit about the Hogwarts Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter novels or the Houses in the Court of Night Blooming Flowers in the Kushiel's Legacy novels. The fact that the characters in Divergent are expected to choose one category to live in and stick to it, and they're clearly shown to have some reservation about that category is really refreshing for it's credibility.
Other than that, a fairly quiet day, aside from a run up to the bank to deposit my tax refund check and continuing to read a few odds and ends, including "A Local Habitation", also Veronica Roth's "Divergent".
Now, I have to pause for a moment here and say, its probably just me, but can we have some teen/young adult dystopia novels that don't involve kids testing each other physically? Granted, the physical trials in Divergent is more like a boot camp than the Battle Royale/Hunger Games model, but... I'd just like a change of pace to mix it up a bit. I'm the last person to tell anyone what to write, but for the sake of diversity and contrast, can we have kids testing themselves in other ways? Trials of the wits? Brains versus brawn? Brains working with brawn?
Mind you, I like the fact that part of Divergent involves the fact that... arbitrary labels kind of don't really stick on actual human beings, that people are really too complicated to be sorted into one set of characteristics. It's the one thing that twigged me a bit about the Hogwarts Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter novels or the Houses in the Court of Night Blooming Flowers in the Kushiel's Legacy novels. The fact that the characters in Divergent are expected to choose one category to live in and stick to it, and they're clearly shown to have some reservation about that category is really refreshing for it's credibility.