"Grab your mother's keys. We're leaving."

[greygirlbeast]

Yesterday, I wrote 1,397 words on Chapter Five of Blood Oranges. I also reached page 200 of the manuscript. The revision of my revised schedule puts me finishing the novel sometime between August 31 and September 3, if I can write at least 1,150 words per day. Oh, and I'd love to hear thoughts on Chapter Two from those who've had time to read

Comments

[sillylilly_bird]

Chapter 2 was very good. I'm even more excited, if possible, for this book!

[fornikate]

Oddly enough, I just watched this last night and thought it was amazing.

[mr_earbrass]

Agreed on Black Death--it had me hooked at the beginning, had me worried in the middle, then sewed it up so tightly at the end...and it's a film I like more with distance, rather than less (as is too often the case once my initial charity's worn off). Reflecting on it, The Wicker Man flourishes really work in the service of the film's themes, and that ending is positively haunting--best film of its type since the days of <>Witchfinder General<> and Ken Russel's The Devils, in my opinion. And really, as far as cheap thrills go nothing tops seeing Percy Percy from Black Adder as Langvia's nefarious henchman.

By the by, have you seen the Finnish film Sauna? It remains one of my very favorite movies of the last decade, and one of the best period horror flicks I've ever seen. I raved about it way back when I first saw it, and Black Death reminded me of it in all the best ways.