Jul. 28th, 2010

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Today is a cooking day. I decided to use everything in the fridge that was about to go off, which included a cantaloupe, a summer squash, a cucumber, two zucchini, a bag of spinach, and some phyllo. So now I have a melon/squash/cucumber salad (pretty boring, but the yogurt dressing is great) chilling, and zucchini bread in the oven. When the bread comes out, spanakopita goes in. (There was also a grilled cheese sandwich interlude for the step-spawn.)

To ensure energy levels stay optimal for this endeavor, I put on my very worst 80s playlist. It's my 80s vamp/VD list, and I need a couple more songs to round it out. In case you don't believe me when I say worst, I share it for posterity:

Gino Vanelli - "Black Cars"
Hall & Oates - "Maneater"
Eddie Money - "Take Me Home Tonight"
Cutting Crew - "(I Just) Died In Your Arms"
Corey Hart - "Sunglasses At Night"
Def Leppard - "Love Bites"
Naked Eyes - "Always Something There To Remind Me"
Whitesnake - "Still of the Night"
Lou Gramm - "Lost in the Shadows"
Glenn Frey - "You Belong To The City"


8. What's your favorite genre to write? To read?

Fantasy. I prefer creepy, weird, dark, urban, etc. to heroic and epic, but fantasy is always what I go back to. I like SF--especially when it's creepy, weird, etc.--but read less of it. To date I have two SFnal stories started, and ideas for one (1) novel. I also love horror, when it's smart and supernatural*, and hope to write something creepy one day. I enjoy reading mysteries and spy thrillers, too, but at this point can't imagine writing one that wasn't also fantastic or SFnal.

*I intensely dislike torture-porn and slasher horror. I don't mind serial killers--I love Criminal Minds and Silence of the Lambs--but I want intelligent plotting and even smarter psychology, not just Ooh, he's crazy and has a knife! Monsters, like everything else, must be complex and smart, or they're boring.
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Kingdoms of Dust


16666 / 100000 words. 17% done!

Only a hundred odd new words, but that's the end of Chapter 4, and what I think is Part I. TDC naturally fell into three acts, and I forced the issue with TBP. This time it seems to want more shorter acts, and whatever gets me to the end this book can have.

They are on the boat and sailing toward the plot. Now to get them off again.

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