Normal is fine.

The normal one I have laying around, so to speak, so I can just send it.

Again, Thanks!

Ok, so I thought signing up for Script Frenzy, which is like NaNO for Screenwriters would be an awesome idea, because it would force me to finish my spec by 4/1 and for the challenge and all that happy crap, right? But I forgot how "!!!!" writing hobbyists are.Everything is just always*so* much fun and the best shit evar...I don't remember when I started a writing project and felt like that, but I think my age had "teen" in it. I don't suppose there's a nice way to post back "Please stop gushing...your ceaseless glee is making me sick." And I don't even think I'm even all that tormented...not one of those people that believes every page is childbirth(despite my tripping on what a big job the spec has been....the new version has come more easily But there are definite moments of pleasure in a well-crafted, in character moment...it's just hard to imagine being all "Woo hoo!" about it...at this point that would feel like being excited about...digesting a sandwich.

57 is done with now, and I'm making inroads into 58. After spending forever on chapter 55, I'm feeling good about making progress now.

My new audiobook is Killing Floor, by Lee Child. It was recommended to me, partly to see how he depicts characters. Well, I'm writing fantasy and this is a crime drama, so it doesn't help much. The main character is a detective and portrayed in first person, so while the characters are sharply drawn, its mostly by the main character telling you what they are like from observations. It's totally in character, but it's not an approach that works for me.

As for the book itself, I'm enjoying it when the plot is progressing, but there are spots where I feel like he strolls away from the plot to describe stuff and account for time. So good, but I think the editing could be more ruthless. The paperback has 544 pages so about 180,000 words, seems like some trimming wouldn't be bad.

Do not get me started on his depiction of Georgia or the dramatic scene in the airport that could not possibly have taken place in any incarnation of the Atlanta airport.

I'm not that far into it yet, it's a pretty sizable book. There is a certain stereotype feel to, well, everything, but I like the way the mystery is being set up when he doesn't wander off.

From everything I've read, a first book this long would be impossible to get picked up, but if I had a dime for every "don't do this" thing I see in published work, I'd have a lot of dimes.

Yeah.

I like the books, but yeah, the author should have researched small town Georgia before writing it.

I've read a bunch of his others and I can't say if he made the same mistakes but the plots are fairly tight and it keeps my interest.

I'm progressing through chapter 58, and trying not to let things slow down too much.

I have a title for the second book now if I split it into two (chapters 1-34 and chapters 35-62).