screaming at the television
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hawkwing_lbwatching LA burn through the night.
January 14, 2007 Progress Notes:
untitled space opera thingy
Words today: 1,300
Words total: 9,800
Reason for stopping: Close enough for horseshoes and handgrenades.
Exercise: Still injury. No exercise today for me.
Tyop du Jour: N/A
Words MS Word Doesn't Know: conn, medkit
Mean Things: the possibility of future unpleasantness draws closer
Books in progress: Jim Butcher, Storm Front, Henry Chadwick, The Early Church.
Books finished: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Touching Darkness and Midnighters: Blue Noon. Thoughts below.
The glamour: Self-injury, as recounted above.
Day 9:
Week ending Jan 14
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Fiction 7&8, Books 8&9, 2007: Touching Darkness and Blue Noon.
You remember where I said a couple of days ago that Westerfeld writes absolute crack?
Well, my opinion hasn't changed.
In Touching Darkness, the Midnighters discover that the darklings can do worse things to them than kill them. This is much more Rex's and Dess's and Melissa's book, much like The Secret Hour was Jessica's, and the fate Rex faces out in the desert has the potential to change him utterly.
In Blue Noon, the Fate of the World (tm) is at state, but the execution is a hell of a lot less clichéd than I just made it sound. After the events of Touching Darkness, the five Midnighters could do with a chance to regroup. But with the blue time coming - unexpectedly and unprecedentedly - during the day, that's exactly what they don't have.
Pleasant light reading. Westerfeld's YA stuff is habit-forming.
January 14, 2007 Progress Notes:
untitled space opera thingy
Words today: 1,300
Words total: 9,800
Reason for stopping: Close enough for horseshoes and handgrenades.
Exercise: Still injury. No exercise today for me.
Tyop du Jour: N/A
Words MS Word Doesn't Know: conn, medkit
Mean Things: the possibility of future unpleasantness draws closer
Books in progress: Jim Butcher, Storm Front, Henry Chadwick, The Early Church.
Books finished: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Touching Darkness and Midnighters: Blue Noon. Thoughts below.
The glamour: Self-injury, as recounted above.
Day 9:
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9,800 / 67,500 (14.5%) |
Week ending Jan 14
| |
7,770 / 5,500 (141.3%) |
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Fiction 7&8, Books 8&9, 2007: Touching Darkness and Blue Noon.
You remember where I said a couple of days ago that Westerfeld writes absolute crack?
Well, my opinion hasn't changed.
In Touching Darkness, the Midnighters discover that the darklings can do worse things to them than kill them. This is much more Rex's and Dess's and Melissa's book, much like The Secret Hour was Jessica's, and the fate Rex faces out in the desert has the potential to change him utterly.
In Blue Noon, the Fate of the World (tm) is at state, but the execution is a hell of a lot less clichéd than I just made it sound. After the events of Touching Darkness, the five Midnighters could do with a chance to regroup. But with the blue time coming - unexpectedly and unprecedentedly - during the day, that's exactly what they don't have.
Pleasant light reading. Westerfeld's YA stuff is habit-forming.