Up · From · Slush

I haven't updated this blog in a while, so I feel I should.

Writing: I finished Draft Three of Lennon's Line (did I mention that last time?), so I'm putting that aside for a while. I'm currently researching a short story and outlining the sequel to Lennon's Line. I'm not an outliner by nature, so this is harder than pulling teeth. Even though I have a first draft of the sequel (called Catalyst in the Crucible for now), I need to toss it and start over. Hopefully with an outline, the second draft will be better and easier to write.

Reading: I read A Game of Thrones on the way back from Vegas. Technically, I only got about halfway through it during the flight and had to finish it afterwards. My biggest question about the book: if winter can last for a decade, how can the people in this setting store enough food to last that long? They don't seem advanced enough for canning, and I'm not sure if canned food can last that long anyway. I wonder if there are mild spots in the winter to allow for a short growing season. We'll see if later books address this question.

My latest novel is Forty Signs of Rain. I just started this morning. Robinson seems quite familiar with D.C., even though I never visited the NSF building. So far it's a quiet opening, although my interest in science and the characters keeps me going. We'll see how it turns out.