--The suboptimal stuff first: it's been a not-great couple of days here. My current rewrite is going
slowly (it's very text-dense), which is a bit stressful, and poor
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scruloose was home today because he slipped on a badly-cleared icy patch when going in at work yesterday and wrenched his back. :/ We're really hoping it won't cause any problems when he goes in (again) for his tattoo tomorrow.
--We have another winter storm warning, with the forecast calling for it to hit late tomorrow night and carry over into Saturday.
--For anyone who's sad about Porn Battle not happening this year and who hasn't heard, there's
going to be a "golden oldies" round at
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pbam from February 15-25th, using prompts from prior Battles.
(For other Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant fans, yesterday
I posted a consolidated list of all of the prompts for her books over at
aftertheendtimes. Most of the prompts from those previous Battles are for the Toby books and
Newsflesh, but there are also a few for
InCryptid and
Velveteen vs.)
--As my "WHO NEEDS SLEEP?" brain reminded me the other night, I really do need to do up a timeline for the
Newsflesh psychic wolves AU (which also really needs a title, because surely the title would be shorter than writing that out). Part of me is resistant, though, and I think it's because an actual timeline, even a draft version, will probably drive home how fast and loose I have to play with the time frame to make the story work, and "fast and loose" isn't exactly one of my strengths. I may post separately about this at some point and seek input (general fannish/fanfic circles sorts of input, not series specific, I don't think) while I try to nail down a bit more of it.
--As I mentioned a few days ago,
wildpear does this magical thing of assessing a story or draft that's a tangle in my head and sifting out what I'm actually
doing and what impressions she has about what I'm trying to do, which is a lifesaver when I'm messed up about something. She did that for my psychic wolves last week, and this morning I woke up and found an email where she'd written it out for me, and just having that to look at helps. ^_^ (My conscious feelings re: this fic are along the lines of
"Ack, this whole thing is a mess and traumatic and characters are hurting and What Does It All Mean? And why is it so fucked up?" [The answer to "Why is it so fucked up?" really does just start with "...take a moment to consider the canon you're drawing on for the wolves."])
What did you recently finish reading?Most recently, Rainbow Rowell's
Fangirl and
Attachments, with Holly Black's
The Darkest Part of the Forest in between. I really enjoyed all three, although I'd say
Fangirl worked best for me. It and
Attachments are
very different books, which fortunately I knew going in. And where I bonded with
Fangirl almost immediately,
Attachments took a lot longer. The premise there is inherently skeevy, and self-aware about it, and deals with that as well as possible, I'd say. I did wind up clicking with it fairly strongly about halfway through. But I think I'm far more likely to revisit
Fangirl. As for
The Darkest Part of the Forest, I'd say it hasn't dislodged
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown as my favorite of Black's books, but it was a good read, and I was unsurprisingly pleased by the
Newsflesh nod. (It'd be pretty obviously a
Newsflesh nod even with no outside context, but lest anyone think I simply see it everywhere, she confirmed it on Tumblr when someone asked.)
What are you currently reading?Nothing!
What do you think you'll read next?I'm not sure. I have some graphic novels out of the library (vol. 1 of
Velvet and three Marvel volumes, including vol. 1 of
Ms. Marvel), so I need to read those fairly soon. I was vaguely planning to pick up
The Goblin Emperor next, but right now I'm feeling a bit more like reading something set closer to our own world, so I'm going to have to look over the to-read bookcase. (Reading from my shelves of purchased books for a change is turning out to be quite lovely.) Maybe I should tackle
Sinner. Or maybe none of these things will be next!
(I don't own either of Rowell's other two books, so while I want to lay hands on them reasonably quickly--especially since
wildpear read
Eleanor & Park last week--they're not high contenders for the immediate future.)
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