stillsostrange

I typed a thousand words tonight, but it was a revision of an old scene so I could post another chapter to the workshop. Forward motion has ground to a halt over the past few days. At first I thought it was Liz being her usual avoidant self, but then I noticed that no one is talking to me. Bastards. Maybe if I go play with the ghouls for a while, the Dreams crew will get jealous and put out again.

I started Kelley Armstrong's Stolen today, but I don't think it will be one of the books I finish this year. It's predecessor, Bitten, was a decent book. I didn't fall in love, but I actually wanted to finish it. I wanted to smack the main character a few times, but rarely the author. However, Bitten didn't earn Armstrong enough author points with me to carry me past the beginning of Stolen. Opening with a random death of a one-off pov is Not A Good Idea, unless you are generally brilliant. Following that up with some gratuitous villain pov is also ill advised. Then we switch to Elena, the mc from Bitten, and things get better. Until characters from Armstrong's other series showed up. Mind you, I enjoy a good crossover. I do it often myself. I also love a Whedonesque menagerie as much as the next girl, and I have certainly done worse than having werewolves, witches, and half-demons in the same scene. Clinical, comic-booky descriptions of supernatural powers turn me off, though, and there was a lot of AYWKB dialogue. So the book gets put down, and I'll try another Brust book instead.

No exercise today, but I did clean my kitchen and make another necklace.

If the boy doesn't clean some things out of the fridge soon, I'll write about the unfathomable menace that is Nog Sothoth.