Guns & Magic

 

Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore. I finished that last night.

 

I’ll pull together my 2007 Reading List this week.

 

Happy New Year!

 

-David

 

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond.

 

I enjoyed Bruce Campbell’s autobiography, If Chins Could Kill. I always like reading about indie films and indie filmmakers. I had thought the book was more recent, though, but it ends off in 2001-2002. I’ll have to dig up his Web page and find out what he’s been doing lately. Besides Burn Notice (a great TV show).

 

-David

 

Running Waters – 536 words (chapter 9)

 

I think I might’ve hit the end of chapter 9. I’ll find out in editing, I guess.

 

-David

 

If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell. A birthday present.

 

Before this one, I read Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.

 

I didn’t get much work done during the ice storm and aftermath. But I did get in a chunk of reading.

 

-David

 

Running Waters – 1400 words (chapter 9)

 

Always fun trying to remember where you left off. And where you were going. The outline helps with those. More difficult is getting back into the head of the character. But I’m getting there.

 

-David

 

The Truth by Terry Pratchett.

 

Before that, I started to read, made it through one chapter, and then sent back to the library The Summoner by Gail Z. Martin. A pretty boy who can talk to ghosts gets exiled by his patricidal brother. Oh, and it’s a first novel. The first chapter was so poorly written I couldn’t take it any more.

 

In other news: This week has been totally screwed up by the worst ice storm in the past decade or more.

 

 

I have more pictures here.

 

I should be able to get back to writing by the end of the week.

 

-David

 

Running Waters – 798 words (chapter 9)

 

Not a huge day. But better than the 200 or so I did yesterday. Family obligations (not all of them unwanted, and some of them quite cute) sometimes get in the way.

 

-David

 

by David Michael

 

 

Chal sat on the patch of grass, her back to the bayuk channel, facing the direction Rose had gone, facing the handsome young Major Haley and the pretty young Janett. She saw them all, the two in front of her, and, not with her eyes but with the senses of the water and the grass and the trees around her, the figure of her friend getting farther away with every step. Farther away from her, and closer to the … wrongness … that accompanied Ducoed.

 

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1640 words today, divided between chapters 8 and 9. Chapter 8 came in shorter than the average chapter length so far–but still longer than I had begun to expect. I’ll get that edited and posted this afternoon.

 

-David

 

Running Waters – 1651 words (chapter

 

This was my Nano Novel, and it’s supposed to be finished by now. But even though Nano is gone with November, the novel is still here. I’m in chapter 8 of 25 outlined chapters, and I expect it will take me through January to finish it. Maybe February.

 

My writing goal from here forward will be 1500-2000 words per day, 5 days per week. That should have me posting a new chapter about once per week.

 

-David