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jon_chaisson) wrote2023-06-08 09:21 am
jon_chaisson) wrote2023-06-08 09:21 am
Reading and Writing
Whoof -- finally finished the Expanded Edition of Mark Lewisohn's Beatles book Tune In, and it only took me THREE FLIPPING MONTHS to do it! Very dense and ridiculously detailed but fascinating, especially if you're a huge Beatle nerd like I am. It was like 1700 pages over two hardcovers. Really eye-opening on how the band formed and evolved even before they made their first single (which takes place in the last third of the book), what life was like in Liverpool at the time, and especially how old-school (in a negative way) the music business was then.
The downside is that my GoodReads numbers are atrocious right now, and I need to read 35 more books to get back on track and make my goal of 100 by the end of the year! Pretty sure I can do it, though. And yes, I am counting manga and the occasional reread!
On the writing end of things...as I'd mentioned on my blog recently, my work on MU4 has been good but has been lacking tension and it's bothering me. Call it conflict avoidance, call it having my brain still stuck in hopepunk territory after writing Diwa & Kaffi, whatever it is -- it's annoying as hell and I need to break myself out of it. And it occurred to me a few days ago that I think the only way I'll successfully do so is to pull a 180: You want tension? I'll give you some f***ing tension. And I started a new chapter that...well, let's just say that it's definitely an oh shit moment, and it did the trick. Now I'm very curious as to where it will go!
The downside is that my GoodReads numbers are atrocious right now, and I need to read 35 more books to get back on track and make my goal of 100 by the end of the year! Pretty sure I can do it, though. And yes, I am counting manga and the occasional reread!
On the writing end of things...as I'd mentioned on my blog recently, my work on MU4 has been good but has been lacking tension and it's bothering me. Call it conflict avoidance, call it having my brain still stuck in hopepunk territory after writing Diwa & Kaffi, whatever it is -- it's annoying as hell and I need to break myself out of it. And it occurred to me a few days ago that I think the only way I'll successfully do so is to pull a 180: You want tension? I'll give you some f***ing tension. And I started a new chapter that...well, let's just say that it's definitely an oh shit moment, and it did the trick. Now I'm very curious as to where it will go!