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I can never get the hang of Thursdays

Posted by Frank Cote on September 22, 2011
Posted in: books, courses, Writing. Tagged: Dead war, John Horner Jacobs, Matt Richter, Southern gods, Tim Waggoner, word count, writing, writing group.

I’m overdue on re-reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.   I wanted to write a little update on everything.

Things are progressing apace.  I’m almost done my second pass through Revenant.  I’m hoping to get to some writing on that soon.  I really want to be able to send it out this year.

Outside of editting, I was hit by a great idea for a short story that I’m calling “The Hunter”.  I’ve started working on that a bit.  In my head, as I play with it, I’m enjoying the fact that it can work equally well as a fantasy or as science fiction.  I might write both for giggles and bits.

The big news is that I’ve signed up for a Writer’s Workshop at The Thomas More Institute here in town.  It’s a small group, led by published authors and it turns out I already have one of the class book assignments on my Kindle app (I don’t know if they’ll insist I buy a physical copy, we’ll see).   The price isn’t too expensive and from the curriculum I think I will get a lot out of it.

The only thing not really working right now is that I’m not keeping up my word count.  I’m still writing daily, but there’s been more than a few 300 word days.   This will change.

Reading wise, I’ve been rather voracious.  I’ve gone through Southern Gods by John Horner Jacods, the Matt Richter novels by Tim Waggoner (just finished Dark War) and On Writing (which I start over and over and never finish, this time I finished it).

I’m not much for reviews, but for what it’s worth, I highly recommend the Matt Richter novels (Nekropolis, Dead Streets and Dark War).  They are light, well written and well paced and the setting is well thought out and interesting.   Southern Gods was also very well written and I liked the idea of a story set in the post WWII south, but it was “sold” to me as an exploration of blues legends, kind of a delta blues fantasy/horror story which I thought would be neat.  It turns out it really isn’t like that and while it was still good, I was slightly disappointed and the ending scenes were a little too gory for my tastes.

 

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