August contest entry is coming along swimmingly.
Ok, I lie. But it has those arm floaters on, and it's floating in the kiddy pool.
What I mean to say is that I've made a start.
It's just that when my brain is this confuzzled from the flu (yes, yes, yet another one), I keep getting distracted with 'research' on the internet. Gothic isn't something I'm overly familiar with, and even though I've crammed a number of trademarkedly 'gothic' elements into the story, it just isn't working that well. I want to write something that's like The Hound of the Baskervilles. What I am actually writing is a sad excuse for a fairytale that makes the Brothers Grimm turn in their graves.
The most interesting part of my life at the moment (apart from my beautiful, smart, caring, generous partner, of course...) is reading through the Locke Lamora books. I'm 3/4 though the third one - Republic of Thieves, and I'm pretty sure the fourth isn't out yet. There is no sound of appreciation in this world that adequately describes how much I like reading these books and how much Scott Lynch's words are blowing my mind.
...I will hopefully have the gothic contest piece finished by the end of the week.
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