Jul 07 2008
WWIR: June 29 through July 5, 2008
IWS: Wrote a little of the werewolf part. Tinkered a little with the vampire part. Seriously considering removing the initial Option #3 and the later Switcheroo Option in the interest of finishing it sometime this decade because the transitions are killing me. (Although I will use the initial Option #3 elsewhere because I never throw away a good torture mechanism.) Seriously, I don’t know what the hell I was thinking. Too ambitious a project for a gal once described as having “a dismaying lack of ambition.”
Wreading Week in Review: Read three “man books” in two days. Read half of a “woman book” in two days—it’s good, it’s just slower going because chick POV involves a lot more introspection than guy POV.
To the reviewer who complained because Robert Parker’s books are all dialogue: That’s why they’re great. Quip, inform, threaten, shoot, pet the pooch, repeat. I know Spenser wanted to beat that obnoxious kid with a folding chair because I wanted to beat that obnoxious kid with a folding chair, and all it took to get me there was the obnoxious kid’s dialogue. That’s a skill, not a shortcoming. Sometimes that spareness and simplicity are exactly what’s called for, and anything more is a waste of words.
