Sunday Notes

First, thank you all very much for the kinds words about Wolfie. As Krissie said, he’ll live forever in Dogs and Goddesses and Faking It, so that’s something.

So I’ve been thinking about the Argh Ink Book Club, and I think we should give it a shot, see how it goes. I like the idea of putting up three posts on the same day, discussing characters, plot, and the story as a unified whole, keeping all the discussions going at once, but sorted out a little so things don’t get quite so confusing.

How does that sound? Too regimented? Would a single post be better? Do you want questions ahead of time? Should I post them the day the discussion starts? No questions at all, we’ll just talk about whatever we want? I’m open.

Oh, except on the book we’re doing. That’s Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.

So here’s your one-month-ahead-of-time head’s up. June 6, we’re gonna talk about how Moist raised the Ankh Morpork postal service from the dead while saving the Discworld version of the interwebs. A hero for our time. Anti-hero. Semi-anti-hero. Whatever.

And then in other news, io9 has an interview with the PoI showrunners, and it sounds like Season Four is gonna be grim. Those of you who decided to leave because it was getting too dark? Probably a good decision:

“We’ve never shied from killing off our characters, and this season is no different,” Nolan said. “Our team does not make it out intact.” In fact, he says that depending on how you reckon who’s a “series regular,” you could say that a majority of the regulars are dead by the end of the season. “We’re equal-opportunity killers.”



Great. Greer’s a series regular, right? We could spare him. Fusco and Bear better make it, though. (The showrunners have promised that Bear does not die, but you know showrunners.)

And then there’s my research:

“The average height and weight of women varies around the world, but in the United States in 2010, the average adult female height was 63.8 inches (approximately 5 feet 4 inches) and 166.2 pounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Oct 27, 2015.”



I had a line about Nita being medium height and weight, and I was aiming for about 5’8″, 140 pounds, so I’m a little off. Should I go for “tall” instead of medium height? I don’t want to be too specific, although her weight is going to be part of a plot point later (not as in “fat or thin,” but more of a mechanical thing), so I’ll probably be specifying 140 then.

And now, your moment of WiP. (I have more of this, but it’s in even worse shape than the stuff I’m posting.)

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