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hawkwing_lbJanuary 12, 2007 Progress Notes:
untitled space opera thingy
Words today: 1300
Words total: 7,000 by MS wordcount
Reason for stopping: quota
Exercise: none. I am weak.
Tyop du Jour: N/A
Words MS Word Doesn't Know: Word does not know 'ain't'. This does not surprise me.
Mean Things: possibly a death
Books in progress: Jim Butcher, Storm Front, Henry Chadwick, The Early Church (which is history, and for college).
Books finished: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: The Secret Hour.
The glamour: I still haven't organised my college notes, and I'm into the second term.
Day 7:
Week ending 14 Jan
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Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: The Secret Hour.
In the town of Bixby, Oklahoma, thirteen is a lucky number, and a handful of adolescents are aware of a twenty-fifth hour in the day. At midnight, time stops for everyone except them and the creatures they call slithers and darklings. The midnight creatures have never threatened them, but things change when Jessica Day arrives in town. Unlike the other 'Midnighters', she's not an outsider. She seems perfectly normal. Except that the darklings want to kill her.
Westerfeld is bloody good. I read this in a couple of hours this afternoon. His characters are full-fleshed and interesting, the pace moves along pretty damn quick, and the tone manages to be at once authentically teenage and pleasantly mature. I like, and fortunately Westerfeld is reasonably well-represented in the library, so I can read book two soon.
untitled space opera thingy
Words today: 1300
Words total: 7,000 by MS wordcount
Reason for stopping: quota
Exercise: none. I am weak.
Tyop du Jour: N/A
Words MS Word Doesn't Know: Word does not know 'ain't'. This does not surprise me.
Mean Things: possibly a death
Books in progress: Jim Butcher, Storm Front, Henry Chadwick, The Early Church (which is history, and for college).
Books finished: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: The Secret Hour.
The glamour: I still haven't organised my college notes, and I'm into the second term.
Day 7:
| |
7,000 / 67,500 (10.4%) |
Week ending 14 Jan
| |
4,370 / 5,500 (79.5%) |
*
Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: The Secret Hour.
In the town of Bixby, Oklahoma, thirteen is a lucky number, and a handful of adolescents are aware of a twenty-fifth hour in the day. At midnight, time stops for everyone except them and the creatures they call slithers and darklings. The midnight creatures have never threatened them, but things change when Jessica Day arrives in town. Unlike the other 'Midnighters', she's not an outsider. She seems perfectly normal. Except that the darklings want to kill her.
Westerfeld is bloody good. I read this in a couple of hours this afternoon. His characters are full-fleshed and interesting, the pace moves along pretty damn quick, and the tone manages to be at once authentically teenage and pleasantly mature. I like, and fortunately Westerfeld is reasonably well-represented in the library, so I can read book two soon.
