Oh, September, where the hell did you go?
I’m not so much as lagging behind my personal deadline as watching it race off into the distance. I did send three short stories (The Baited Psychopath, Desolation and The Witching Hour) back out into submission land (have so far got a rejection back on The Baited Psychopath) but did not write any new short stories. I get a lot of editing done on Kiss Butterfly but nowhere near as much as I’d planned.
And why?
Because Harry Potter has taken over my life. I’m half way through book 7 and struggling between wanting to rip through to the end at a maniacal pace and trying to savour the last few remaining pages I have before I get to the end and realise I’ll never again read Harry Potter for the first time. Bit melodramatic?
Anyway, October looks promising. There will be no Harry Potter (sob) as I’ll no doubt have finished it in the next day or two and will be free to edit, edit, edit, and also to prepare for NaNo.
So that’s October – editing Kiss Butterfly and preparing to write The November Sin.
Reading wise, here are some great dark and creepy stories to check out:
Planting Season at House of Horror by Jameson T Caine
Taking Root at House of Horrors by Aaron Polson
Strange Tooth at Everyday Fiction by Cate Gardner
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14 comments:
i both love/hate finishing a great book. its such a high/disappoint.
apparently I can't have clear emotions :^)
I'm hearing you.
Wow, sounds like you have a thing for young Harry Potter...
Harry Potter has a way of taking over, to be sure. Oooo...The November Sin (sounds like it is made of awesome)
Thanks for the plug!
Alan, soon he will not be my excuse for procrastinating.
Aaron, I'm hoping the story will be. I'm looking forward to getting stuck into it.
Harry Potter is an insidious little sucker. I came into the HP books when book four came out. I tore through them like a house on fire. Then when each new one was released, I read them in a single sitting, even if it took me all day. It was like getting a badly needed fix. Once it was over, withdrawal was a pain.
On one hand, I envy your experience of reading them for the first time, but on the other, I know what's waiting for you when it's over.
Jameson, now I'm more than a tad concerned.
I know what you mean with the whole, 'I'll never read that for the first time again' thingy. I saw someone reading HP and I felt so jealous.
Sounds like it was a good month, I might have to go back and read HP when all of my TBR pile is read down.
I'm awed that you've read all seven books in a matter of weeks and haven't overdosed. That's a lot of pages. They're great reads, though. I miss the fun of getting the newly released volume and clearing the decks to do nothing but read all weekend.
September was going slow and steady for me then, bam! October. Time is a funny thing.
Cate, I know, I imagine starting fresh from the beginning again.
Jamie, I'm currently fossicking through my TBR pile for the "after HP" book.
KC, it doesn't seem that long ago since I started them, yet I feel like I've been with them forever.
Nat, I wish it had gone slower for me. Maybe October will be slower. Maybe.
Fabulous recs, Danielle-- thanks for that.
I read the last Harry Potter book in a 36 hour period of doing nothing else, like the minute it came. I have no self control :/
Katey, I remember hearing about people reading the books as they were walking out of the store, especially with the final one. Now I understand why. As I write this I have 100 pages to go before I finish the final book.
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