September Roundup

[cjmarlowe]

It's past time to admit that this job, much as I do love it, is killing my writing. Which is funny because you'd think finally have a job in the arts again would inspire me. And it does, but I somehow haven't had the mental energy to write all summer (for a number of reasons, not just work). I'm hoping that now that things are settled down again, now that we've gotten past sorting through the mess of the past couple of years, things will change. And to that end, I'm going to attempt to write more today than I have in the past two months combined. A word count which not that long ago was known as "a slightly above average day."

In September I wrote 1610 words and didn't post anything. I didn't even finish the things had on deadline, so I'm hoping the deadlines might be a wee bit flexible because I really do love what I'm working on and want to get it done. I actually wrote more than that, but a chunk of it is longhand that I haven't transcribed yet. However, I did read more than average, which is something at least.

Movies and books, September 2011:

Sinchronicity [Full Series]
Childrens Hospital [Season 1]
The Broken Hearts Club
Childrens Hospital [Season 2]
Childrens Hospital [Season 3]
Miranda [Series 2]
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil [Season 1]
Thor
Your Highness
Better Than Chocolate
Sherlock Holmes
Shelter
Would I Lie to You [Series 1]
Would I Lie to You [Series 2]
Would I Lie to You [Series 3]
Would I Lie to You [Series 4]
Green Lantern
Strapped
Clueless
Mysterious Skin
Imagine Me & You
Taking Woodstock

as well as...

Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
Liked very much (pretty much read all in one sitting) but not quite as much as the first book. I think part of it is that I'm such a huge fan of deft worldbuilding, and most of the heavy lifting in that regard is done in the first book of a series.

Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
I think I was most interested in the propaganda aspects of the warfare, and how it was never neat and tidy. I actually think I liked it more than the second book, though there were a lot of dangling ends.

Justin Gustainis - Hard Spell
Conceptually I really enjoyed this one and the ideas behind it, because I've always been an urban fantasy fan, but overall I felt like it was too heavy on the exposition and too light on the characterization. Still, for a fun read I'd pick up more in the same universe.

Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers
It's been several years since I've read this, but I was inspired to read some more military-oriented fiction after Mockingjay (esp with regards to propaganda). I always have issues with classic science fiction—it's hard to get over how appalling it is that it was easier to imagine aliens and interstellar war than treating women as equals—but it's still an interesting book. I'd forgotten just how different it is from the movie (which succeeds where it fails and fails where it succeeds, though more of the latter than the former).


Also! The new episode of slashcast is out today, and among many fantastic features there is an interview with me about being multifannish. I can't bear to listen to my own voice, but I'm assured that I didn't make a complete idiot of myself so go on and check it out!

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