I just finished The High Lord by Trudi Canavan, instead of writing (more) for NaNoWriMo. I’m down to the wire and a little behind for my early deadline but I could not put this book down. Absolutely could not. I decided I’d read a chapter or two earlier (I’d been doing that with the book [...]
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The High Lord by Trudi Canavan
posted by erin on November 25, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/the-high-lord-by-trudi-canavan
Chrestomanci is like Gatsby! Minus the tragedy…
It has FINALLY occurred to me who the character of Chrestomanci in Diana Wynne Jones’ Charmed Life reminds me of, both physically — the dapper outfits, the mysterious descriptions of his past and mysterious power — and I swear, it’s Gatsby. As in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The similarities between them (polar-opposite genres [...]
posted by erin on November 21, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/chrestomanci-is-like-gatsby-minus-the-tragedy
NaNoWriMo, Day 14
My NaNo novel is an unwieldy beast. And by that I mean it’s going well but its plot can easily go in four directions and I’m conflicted but only really conflicted because I am sort of getting to the point of procrastination. I KNOW, it’s day 14, I can’t afford that. But even so. I’m [...]
posted by erin on November 14, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/nanowrimo-day-14
NaNoWriMo Conflict
National Novel Writing Month starts tomorrow and I’m eager for it but I keep going back and forth between the projects I want to work on for it. Neither are technically begun, which is their precise appeal for NaNoWriMo, but I’m so conflicted I might end up writing half and half, which will just be [...]
posted by erin on October 31, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/nanowrimo-conflict
