I swam the width of a lake! Twice!

[adelynne]

I am off visiting people at glorious Pennsylvania retreat, where internet is limited, and even if it wasn't I'd not be spending much time on it as there is a lake! For swimming! Still, gmail's inaccessible and it's driving me batty to not get my e-mail, so I'll settle for posting briefly.

I've been reading Dawn Cook's The Decoy Princess, which is great at subverting tropes and full of enjoyable characters. Not Faulkner, but then I'm in the mood for a light read having re-read ellen_kushner's divine The Priviledge of the Sword prior to leaving. I've got my head chock full of thoughts on how Alec Campion is a great champion of women's rights, and when sober, a remarkably useful person to know. There might be a post on that later, full of spoilers for all three books. Then again, that depends entirely on how coherent I can make myself under all the squee.

My own writing is still being beaten into submission. I feel like I've written something that might have a few jewels underneath if only I can scrape away all the dust and annoying bits of forcing the plot to the point where it makes no sense. And rewrite the prologue so it's not a vehicle for all! melodrama! all! the! time! (Yes, I do like my exclamation points today.) Still, it's a process that's helping me immensely, and I like to think is actually simplifying a narrative that will be difficult enough with all the characters and their arcs in there.

But more importantly, swimming!

Comments

[cheshyre]

I've been reading Dawn Cook's The Decoy Princess, which is great at subverting tropes and full of enjoyable characters. Not Faulkner, but then I'm in the mood for a light read
Oh cool; I saw that book recently and was curious about it...

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

One of my friends lent it to me in return for a go at my library. It's an enjoyable and fast read.

[chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com]

I read Decoy Princess a while ago. The way the romantic thread with the main character was handled made me wonder ... well, let's just say I didn't like it.

I picked up Resenting the Hero by Moira J. Moore around the same time as I did Decoy Princess, and liked it much better. (Both were acquired when I was looking for something to scratch the somewhat-fluffy-fantasy-with-female-heroine itch.)

[chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com]

Wait, why did it force a break in the middle of heroine and not somewhere more intuitive? Oh well. Also:

I feel like I've written something that might have a few jewels underneath

Isn't that a great feeling? :)

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

It's even better when you can see the way to polish the stuff. ;)