Trivia: and the bread is doing its first rising. The pies are baked. The vacuuming of the spare room is done. The washing is getting done. The walks are shoveled after the foot of snow thanks to the old man. And, we're thinking of driving to Brighton tomorrow???!!???
Mothers are sometimes crazy.
Lessons from My Reading: Finished Kim Harrison's White Witch, Black Curse. After my original bitch about her lack of tagging on the first page so I could figure where the people belonged in the story, it turned out to be a good, if slow read. And, not only because the book is over 500 pages long.
Had another insight as I plowed through learning all the people she threw at us. [MC's whole circle of friends and family gets involved in the story.] Every writer should know that your characters have to overcome the obstacle in the way of achieving their want/desire/etc. in a book. Light-bulb-time revealed that Harrison does this for most of her chapters. There is always a new challenge for the MC to solve. If I wrote it, it'd have all sorts of ends dangling from the ceiling. Fortunately, Harrison isn't me and ties them all fairly neatly -- even the opening question of who killed her lover from the previous book.
Of course, the ending is open ended enough to lead into the next book. I don't know if I'll be reading it. My to-read-pile is over 30 books at the moment, and son is bringing more plus DVDs.
Progress: Emma... Got the pencil revision done. Now I get to transfer them all to the computer version, but I'm not going to think about it. I have to get the rolls baked for tomorrow's dinner.
Have a merry, merry holiday.
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Have a wonderful Christmas, Kay, and a very successful 2010.
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