Okay well now Spring is real
It’s actually getting above freezing here for long enough periods to start to melt the skating rink that has formed itself around my chicken pen AND enough grass and leaves are now showing for that most important of activities, sorting through for bug larvae snacks. We don’t have wild ducks yet, though. That would make it altogether real.
Springtime seems to be a decent writing time for me. It’s after holidays and before the outdoor sports with my son really get going, and I usually take time off to have brainspace to really get into a writing project. Stephen King in his On Writing book stated himself that jobs that take up your mental space during the day don’t leave a ton of room for writing on the off hours, which feels validating. It’s probably why it’s such an amazingly popular book among writers…it makes our own struggles forgivable. This Spring is copyedits and graphics and launch planning. Not the super fun stuff where the story develops under one’s fingers. But it has to be done. And maybe when I get going with it and feeling like I’m making real progress toward sharing it with you, it will get exciting.
That doesn’t mean I have not been reading though, oh, no. The cannon of YA fiction that has sat on my kindle too long continues to be read for the purposes of this blog. I mean, way too long. Check this out.
City of Bones, Cassandra Clare
Clary is your average teen girl living in Brooklyn, until she discovers a whole other supernatural world that not only is mostly hidden from the regular world, but that also involves her mother in a whole story that she never knew. When her mother mysteriously disappears, she is taken into this other dimension that she never knew existed and has to save her mother while finding out a whole lot about herself and her family.
I need like a whole blog section entitled, “I know, I should have read this sooner.” I like the urban fantasy thing for sure, the magical overlaying a real city, complete with urban ruins, which are also totally my jam. I go in for real setting fantasy often more than high fantasy, and while I don’t write supernatural characters they are good fodder for tensions between worlds and major magical plots. This whole thing was very cool and I liked Clary. If I was not desperate to read down the bulk of my books I would continue with the series, but I only have this one of the series. And it resolved enough for me, started her off in a whole new world and a whole new aspect of herself to explore, even if not all the plot pieces were resolved. The biggest threat to me buying more books was actually the historical fiction prequel set in Victorian London because I am a total Victorian London reader, no matter how overused that setting is, and no matter how much it kind of stresses me out because only a small faction of the population thrived in that setting. And certainly not most women. Anyway, very cool, I can see where the series would be a total suck in.
In other exciting Springtime news, I have been able to see a good friend again because we have both been vaccinated for COVID. We do crazy stuff like walk my dog and talk about the chickens, but she’s one of those friends who has been there so long that I don’t know what my life would be like without her. One of those who sees me and gets upset on my behalf. Who has been there through all the exes I sometimes need to talk about. Seeing her is healing the COVID damaged soul.
I’m making major book decisions this week so stay tuned on the blog for the goodies.
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