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Oct. 25th, 2010 05:03 pmOn the other side of things, this morning I wrote a piece of flash (1000 words style...I need to cut out 47 words, if we're being strict here) titled:
The Fox of the Karaoke Bar
which is a title that was in my head several weeks, and then last night developed a story to go with it. Maybe I'll post it someday, though posting fiction has never gone that well for me when it wasn't fanfiction. (Is this a demand I ought to fill? WAIT. Save me from myself!)
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Last 6 days of the Obsessive Book-Lover's Month of Books meme!
Day 25
What authors do you most wish to have bring out a new book, right now? (Dead or alive, keep it down to five!)
Dead People include Tolkien (and endless back matter being presented as new books is not what I mean, but a Hobbit or Farmer Giles of Ham kind of book) and Jane Austen (but not something serious as Her Last, like Mansfield Park, tho' I don't think she would have done it again, she never did things again).
At the same time, I don't feel like they're body of work was incomplete. Tolkien told the stories he wanted to tell.
Hmmm. Living people? Saving the obvious that I've already been over? Well, first, I wish Christopher Stroud would stumble across an idea like The Bartimaeus Trilogy again--his other books have not caught me the same way.
...and Hey, Presto! Robin McKinley's about to bring out a new book that looks soooo good. Pegasus is not a winged horses story (read
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I haven't gotten to reading Chalice yet, by a terrible negligence on my part and a wariness produced by both the wonderful darkness that is Sunshine (which I read) and the reactions to Dragonhaven (which I haven't). I'm not talking about the controversy, so much as the impression I got of the book from posts of various people. I need to buck up and just read them both.
Because apparently Pegasus is really Part One of a single story that's huge and the ending of the first is cruel. DO NOT WANT.