Writing, reading amidst the snow
One story for the Clarion workshop submit is coming along pretty well-I'm just not quite sure how it's going to end yet. The other was giving me oodles of dead ends, and I was contemplating dropping it by Monday and trying to work on another back burner idea, but I can tenuously (or jinxing?) say that some new ideas popped up today and it might be back on track.
Reading lately: Samuel R. Delany (who I can't believe I haven't read before-well crafted, simply popping out one after another words that swirl up into frakin' amazing ideas!-damn, what I was missing out on), Gene Wolfe (who I'm having conflicting feelings on, sometimes liking (the ideas), sometimes being distanced by (the clinically exact prose, and, wondering, am I being an unfairly agnostic reader by being sometimes cranky at all the Catholicism in these fantasy/sci-fi worlds?), William Maxwell (uncannily precise, bare bones, heart freezing-in a great way-prose), and the first book of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories-one of the American originators of 'sword and sorcery' fantasy (a term he coined)-they're like Tolkien crossed with a great American outlaw/on the road film (having not really seen any of those, I can't see which one), but it's great, great fun.
Reading lately: Samuel R. Delany (who I can't believe I haven't read before-well crafted, simply popping out one after another words that swirl up into frakin' amazing ideas!-damn, what I was missing out on), Gene Wolfe (who I'm having conflicting feelings on, sometimes liking (the ideas), sometimes being distanced by (the clinically exact prose, and, wondering, am I being an unfairly agnostic reader by being sometimes cranky at all the Catholicism in these fantasy/sci-fi worlds?), William Maxwell (uncannily precise, bare bones, heart freezing-in a great way-prose), and the first book of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories-one of the American originators of 'sword and sorcery' fantasy (a term he coined)-they're like Tolkien crossed with a great American outlaw/on the road film (having not really seen any of those, I can't see which one), but it's great, great fun.