It's typical of me that instead of working on the things I intended to I wrote a new prologue for GB instead of either editing the ms that has to be in by the 15th or working on the chapter that remains to be revised in Sins or even the revisions of Children. Nope, I had to go and work upon something I haven't touched in nearly a year. So much for organization, but it's still early here, just half past noon. So I still have some time to get my shit together.

One of the things that most aggravates me about the fantasy novels I'm reading is that they are overblown. While mine tend to be long, I don't spend a lot of time talking with the characters plodding slowly along for long distances between action sequences, or scenes of some kind. Nor do I give two thirds of the work over to internal narratives, although I do use internal narrative at times. I just finished getting annoyed with Tad Williams, Robert Jordan, and Sean Russell for this. Of the three, I guess Jordan is the least annoying.

Narrative should be a transitioning tool, not the story itself with few exceptions. Mostly in shorter novels like Andre Norton's Witchworld books. Witchworld is told in an old fashioned style that moves smoothly, is well written and doesn't get hung up on itself by excessiveness. I think it's a matter of degree.

Current favorite is still Anne Bishop. Katherine Kurtz is a long time favorite. There is a lot more out there, but those are the ones I can think of right now.