Last updated on 26 September, 2024
Current Reading
Last updated on 10 December, 2024
Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience by Michael J. Metts, Andy Welfle, Nick Madden
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Last Unicorn was so well-written, I am looking into more Beagle books. Beagle is really good at doing away with unnecessary complications in his plot, leaving lots of breathing room for characters to do their thing. His prose is compact but colorful. I like a good simile (heh) or a metaphor, and he has some of the effective and memorable ones (“…but the coincidence trailed down Schmendrick’s spine like wet seaweed.”).
Current Writing
I had some big personal items to settle in the last few months, and that’s taken away from writing time. That’s mostly out of the way, so I am taking a small break from the book and writing some short stories and doing a few more blog posts, for maybe a month or two.
Miscellaneous
Nothing much out of the ordinary, other than the personal items mentioned above. Work has picked up in a big way over the summer, but I realized that’s what I said in the last update, which was back in April. I should probably update this a little more often, right?