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[annathepiper]

Fought massive waves of the sleepies today; I don't know whether this was a leftover effect of being all stressed out over the weekend, having a workout yesterday morning, or both, or what. But I was yawning practically nonstop all day at work today, and for good measure my shoulders and arms have been aching with that sort of 'why yes, we did just have a workout for the first time in a MONTH yesterday, why do you ask?' way. My forearms, especially. I think that was thanks to the fact that I did wrist curls with ten-pounders for the first time since before breaking my arm.

I think I'll wait till Wednesday for another workout.

The good thing, though, is that I seem to have gotten through a block of some kind; as I'd kind of hoped I would, I topped 750 words tonight. One more night of this and I'll make up for Thursday from last week, too. It's helped to be thinking my way through underlying logistics of what I'm writing about, but it's also just helped, I think, to get some of the stress out of my system and to have work not be quite so crazy. I may even finish Chapter 2 tomorrow night.

A tiny bit of TM distraction, as Rhaevin and Jenesek pointed out a couple of things that I needed to fix with the Timeline Search page and with Jenesek's character entry in the web database for the site, which in turn led me to discovering a couple other things that wanted fixing as well.

In the meantime, I've been re-reading a lot of my older books rather than putting dents into my To Read shelf; go figure. I've got Cape Random, the first of the two novels set in Newfoundland that have been patiently waiting for my attention, riding around in my backpack. But I got distracted by re-reading Margaret Ball's No Earthly Sunne just because I had a yen to re-read it because I remembered her hero being "Wicked Kit Arundel", and I was going to call Christopher in Faerie Blood Kit, except that never really seemed to be appropriate to work into the story. But I still like the sound of it, anyway. Kit, Kit, Kit. Even if half of my brain wants to assign it as a label to roguish men, and the other half wants to assign it to mizkit. ;)

Also re-read Doranna Durgin's Seer's Blood, which I'm partial to just because it's got a unique thing going for it that I have yet to see in any fantasy novel to date that isn't set in the alleged 'real world'--it's set in a culture that's distinctly Appalachian-flavored. The characters actually drawl, and I feel like I'm reading a novel set in Kentucky, only with magic. And I have to admit I rather like that. This one, along with A Feral Darkness and Touched By Magic, are possibly my favorites of hers.

But for my own words, this evening....

Written tonight: 755
Chapter 2 total: 4,238
Story total: 14,818

Comments

[starfallz.livejournal.com]

I just apply Kit to my friend ferricide (Christian). It just sounds cute, not rogue-ish, to me. :D

[annathepiper]

Heh! Of course, I do have other connotations for the name--like Kit Kats! Mmmmmm Kit Kats. And I must also grant that my Christopher isn't exactly a rogue; he's more the broody paladin type, so 'Wicked Kit' wouldn't fit him anyway! ;)

[mnemozine.livejournal.com]

There was a series of books - I'll have to find them again - that was set in Georgia and had to do with a group of boys and the faerie realm. It was very well done. Also by Jan Siegel some books along the same lines, but set in the modern UK, very subtle which is nice.

[annathepiper]

Ah, but there again you have books where the setting is at least ostensibly the modern real world, yes? :) This book of Ms. Durgin's was in a universe of her own devising, but where the local culture drew upon the Appalachians for its flavor, as opposed to the zillions of fantasy novels where the flavor is 'generic European medieval'. ;)

[mnemozine.livejournal.com]

Ah. I didn't understand.

Then like Le Guin?

[annathepiper]

Le Guin's Earthsea books, do you mean? I need to go take another look at those; it has been eons since I read them. Or do you mean something else by her?

[mnemozine.livejournal.com]

It may be the Earthsea books... But I know she has a series that has a lot of acclaim for creating a whole indigenous people, customs etc and writing about their lives. I read one a long loooooooong time ago and didn't appreciate it, but probably would now ;)

[annathepiper]

Hrmm. This doesn't ping me as familiar off the top of my head, so at this point, it may well possibly be the Earthsea books you're thinking of. :) It's been so long since I've read them--and only the first three, for that matter. I never read the followup one she came out with many years later. The only other book by her that I've read is something I have called Sea Road, as well.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

"Wicked Kit Arundel", and I was going to call Christopher in Faerie Blood Kit, except that never really seemed to be appropriate to work into the story. But I still like the sound of it, anyway. Kit, Kit, Kit. Even if half of my brain wants to assign it as a label to roguish men, and the other half wants to assign it to mizkit. ;)

Trust me, so do I. Especially when I see people going 'Kit, Kit, Kit'. *giggle* I'm like, "WHAT?" :)

[annathepiper]

Hee hee! Made ya look! ^_^