In the bleak: Friday Update
News:
No news this week. Quiet end of year.
Works in Progress:
Got my proofreading edit of Question Not My Salt in last weekend and finished it on Wednesday, so that’s all done and ready for when ARCs are offered out. While I was reading through it, I was really surprised that I managed to get some really interesting word choices into such a pulpy story. Don’t have to sacrifice quality in pulp. You can make extreme horror beautiful, too.
That means that I wasn’t able to get Tattered & Torn (Meridian 6) finished when I wanted to (today), and I wasn’t able to work at all yesterday, but I’ll be shooting for finishing on Monday or Tuesday now. I’m not sure how I feel about the ending, not least because I’m improvising, so it might need a rewrite at some point, but I’d like to have the structure in place to work with. Because this has taken me farther into December than I thought, I’ll push some of my short stories to later and just write the one due before the end of the month after I finish Tattered & Torn. Then I need to write the next Meridian novel, but I don’t think I’ll finish before the end of the year.
Books I’m Reading:
IT by Stephen King
This World Belongs to Us edited by Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan McGuire
Music I’m Listening To:
Christmas playlist
Things I’m Watching:
A Christmas Prince: Royal Wedding
Christmas Wedding Planner
A Biltmore Christmas
A Cinderella Christmas
Christmas with a View
Krampus
Black Christmas (2019)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Holiday Baking Championship series
Holiday Wars series
Elf on the Shelf: Sweet Showdown series
Christmas Cookie Challenge series
Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition series
Celebrity Jeopardy series
Hoarders series
The Mentalist series
White Collar series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer series
Found series
Transplant series
Murder, She Wrote series
Poem of the Week:
so desperately want
to imagine another sentence
after the period because
we cannot imagine the space
before the sentence,
to believe in ghosts,
finish unfinished business.
we all love closure,
but sometimes the period
is at the end of an ellipsis.
