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For those of you who keep coming here looking for an update, my usual posting schedule should be Mon-Fri (sans holidays) and I'll try to get them out before noon. Having said that ... I'm sorry I fucked up last week's. I hadn't even realized I left off on a Wednesday. Tsk tsk.
It's been a crazy few days and last week was a real mess. Our home in Richmond just underwent the buyer's home inspection ... and a little negotiation later, we're on track for a mid-March closing. We're still waiting for a termite inspection (nasty little wood eating fuckers) and the bank appraisal. Could this difficult journey finally be close to an end? We can only hope. We started this at the beginning Oct 05 ...
I'll be working on Drain, a new short story in between working on the novel. For those of you who don't notice the home page of the site, there's artwork up for the story already and a link to access it.
Been getting a lot of emails ... so if you've sent one recently that requires a response ... I'm getting around to it.
Created a pretty cool myspace account, been working out with the Bowflex and putting off taking the trash to the dump (a little side-effect of country-living).
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Online's coming along nicely. I'm somewhere around the early 70s, which is pretty cool considering the first draft for this part of the book was in the mid-30's. So as you can imagine there's significantly more substance. Everyone of the characters has changed somewhat ... they've not lost thier alignment (ie, if they were nasty villains, they're still nasty villains), but they're more human now and that just makes things better.
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So this book I'm reading is interesting. Not gripping mind you, but interesting. It's a different world of Oz than the one we're used to seeing in the movie. It's not a cute little Munchkin-filled fairy tale. Parallels could be drawn between the Oz in this book and Germany in the late 1930's. The Wizard more or less can be seen as Hitler, easily enough. All in all though, it's tough to root for a character you know dies when a chubby farmgirl throws a bucket of water on her. I think it's sad for any literary character to suffer the chubby-farmgirl-thrown-bucket-of-water death. :)
Currently Reading: Wicked by Gregory Maquire
It's been a crazy few days and last week was a real mess. Our home in Richmond just underwent the buyer's home inspection ... and a little negotiation later, we're on track for a mid-March closing. We're still waiting for a termite inspection (nasty little wood eating fuckers) and the bank appraisal. Could this difficult journey finally be close to an end? We can only hope. We started this at the beginning Oct 05 ...
I'll be working on Drain, a new short story in between working on the novel. For those of you who don't notice the home page of the site, there's artwork up for the story already and a link to access it.
Been getting a lot of emails ... so if you've sent one recently that requires a response ... I'm getting around to it.
Created a pretty cool myspace account, been working out with the Bowflex and putting off taking the trash to the dump (a little side-effect of country-living).
--
Online's coming along nicely. I'm somewhere around the early 70s, which is pretty cool considering the first draft for this part of the book was in the mid-30's. So as you can imagine there's significantly more substance. Everyone of the characters has changed somewhat ... they've not lost thier alignment (ie, if they were nasty villains, they're still nasty villains), but they're more human now and that just makes things better.
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So this book I'm reading is interesting. Not gripping mind you, but interesting. It's a different world of Oz than the one we're used to seeing in the movie. It's not a cute little Munchkin-filled fairy tale. Parallels could be drawn between the Oz in this book and Germany in the late 1930's. The Wizard more or less can be seen as Hitler, easily enough. All in all though, it's tough to root for a character you know dies when a chubby farmgirl throws a bucket of water on her. I think it's sad for any literary character to suffer the chubby-farmgirl-thrown-bucket-of-water death. :)
Currently Reading: Wicked by Gregory Maquire
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