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I read Mairelon the Magician by Patricia Wrede the other day. It had a plot reminiscent of a crossover between My Fair Lady and Pride and Prejudice with some magic thrown in. This wasn't half bad. However, anyone who knows me knows I can't remember names and the sheer number of people introduced in the book who you were supposed to remember and differentiate between was impossible for me so I spent pretty much the entire climax of the book wondering who was talking and why that was important. The author failed to introduce any characters but the main ones with enough verve for me to remember them when they appeared later on. *shrugs*
Went to Bujinkan yesterday, as usual. Trained with another black belt so came away relatively uninjured and didn't have to do so much teaching. Our hand to hand stuff was all about going into hichou, which is a stance where you stand on one leg with your other foot resting on the inside of your knee. Hichou means flying bird so think of a crane resting with one leg up and you've got it. Anyway, you go back into that stance so you can kick so it was all about moving to the right place and proper distance. Our weapon was knife which was fine with me. I took the whole idea of not going for the knife to heart and had fun finding lots of other ways to take my opponent down while ignoring the knife. I can't say knife is my favourite weapon but I've always found it the easiest to both counter and use. Afterwards, one of the marines who trains there had his birthday so we got to see a marine birthday celebration in which Jack (a former marine) but the cake with a sword, etc. Good cake.
I'm very grateful for all the help you guys gave with my query letter. I'd rewritten it so many times, but could never get it quite right, so thanks. Other than that, I've been speeding through my book editing process and I'm somewhere in the middle of chapter 8 right now. (There are 19 chapters, though some require very little correction.) I'd been slowed down by the first few chapters since those ones needed the most editing. I've noticed it before with Uric, that whenever I write long stories with original characters - who those characters are when the story is finished is never quite the same as my original characterization at the beginning of the story, requiring a bit of rewriting no matter what I do. The hardest thing I've found about editing so far is that I'm not really sure if I'm repeating myself in places. Did I say that before? Did I introduce that fact earlier or later? With a smaller story, this is easy to catch, but 80,000 words is a lot of story to look through to see if you said the same thing twice, ne?
Currently reading Kuroshitsuji and Prince of Tennis on onemanga. I'm really enjoying the PoT manga more than the anime simply because it moves faster and the art is better. I suspect I will always miss the cracktastic chibi episodes though;) Book I'm reading is Airman by Eoin Colfer.
Went to Bujinkan yesterday, as usual. Trained with another black belt so came away relatively uninjured and didn't have to do so much teaching. Our hand to hand stuff was all about going into hichou, which is a stance where you stand on one leg with your other foot resting on the inside of your knee. Hichou means flying bird so think of a crane resting with one leg up and you've got it. Anyway, you go back into that stance so you can kick so it was all about moving to the right place and proper distance. Our weapon was knife which was fine with me. I took the whole idea of not going for the knife to heart and had fun finding lots of other ways to take my opponent down while ignoring the knife. I can't say knife is my favourite weapon but I've always found it the easiest to both counter and use. Afterwards, one of the marines who trains there had his birthday so we got to see a marine birthday celebration in which Jack (a former marine) but the cake with a sword, etc. Good cake.
I'm very grateful for all the help you guys gave with my query letter. I'd rewritten it so many times, but could never get it quite right, so thanks. Other than that, I've been speeding through my book editing process and I'm somewhere in the middle of chapter 8 right now. (There are 19 chapters, though some require very little correction.) I'd been slowed down by the first few chapters since those ones needed the most editing. I've noticed it before with Uric, that whenever I write long stories with original characters - who those characters are when the story is finished is never quite the same as my original characterization at the beginning of the story, requiring a bit of rewriting no matter what I do. The hardest thing I've found about editing so far is that I'm not really sure if I'm repeating myself in places. Did I say that before? Did I introduce that fact earlier or later? With a smaller story, this is easy to catch, but 80,000 words is a lot of story to look through to see if you said the same thing twice, ne?
Currently reading Kuroshitsuji and Prince of Tennis on onemanga. I'm really enjoying the PoT manga more than the anime simply because it moves faster and the art is better. I suspect I will always miss the cracktastic chibi episodes though;) Book I'm reading is Airman by Eoin Colfer.
