Series discontinued...

Well, whatever I said I was going to post; I'm not.

I'm not even in the same headspace as last time I posted. Because my wife monopolizes the computer at home in the evenings a lot, I tend to post these blogs from work. When work gets really busy, I tend not to post blogs. That's happened just recently, and work doesn't look like it's going to slow down much in the next few months. So whatever I promised I would post (a series on Capcom and SNK backgrounds, I think, was the latest nonsense) I won't.

Instead, I'm getting caught up in stuff that's going on now which means 1) new TV shows (season 4 of Supernatural, season 2 of Terminator, season 1 of the Clone Wars and possibly season 3 of Heroes. Trying to decide if I care at all about the last one or not.) Also, books. I just read Scar Nights by Alan Campbell, and it's an interesting debut novel. Quite good. I also finally broke down and started reading my copy of Gardens of the Moon; the first book in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series (so far clocking at eight of ten projected volumes) in part because so many of my friends recommended it so much---I checked it out from the library earlier and struggled through about 100 pages before giving up.) I'm doing better with it this time, but it's still not well-written in any sense of the word. Word on the street, though, is that the series improves dramatically after this weak opening act. I also bought the collected Books of the South volume of Glen Cook's Black Company series. So I can finally move beyond the first three volumes, the "Books of the North" as they're sometimes called. Also, technically, the only ones I don't own now are the "Glittering Stone" subseries; the last four volumes. Glen Cook is another writer who's style I don't really like, but who's ideas, plots and characters manage to hold my attention anyway.

I'm also feeling guilty and unhappy that my own novel is progressing so slowly... I'm gonna really buckle down and start writing, setting myself a goal of 1000 words a day. We'll see if that's supportable or if I'll have to reduce it to 750 or even 500. For now, that's my goal, though.