Finally, a good evening spent writing! There's nothing better. I'm starting to get into the collaboration with my buddy Derek, the Shadow Wolf story, and now it's really rolling along. I'd say we're about halfway or so, at just over 3,000 words.

I've been trying to read more lately, and the de Lint novel is getting good. I just wish the FONT wasn't so small in this novel. It's killing my eyes!

But the storyline is finally moving, and I'm amazed at his cast of characters. I started writing down all the characters, and I passed a dozen already. That's pretty damn ambitious. And I like how so many characters in his work are artists. This one has an entire colony of artists, plus folks living in his town of Newford who are also artists and boheme-types. Very interesting stuff. Though I do wish he'd focus a TINY bit more on plotting and conflict. This novel is quite leisure in its style.

But that's more a drawback for me as a reader. I'm really a bad reader -- very impatient. I need to relax and enjoy reading more I'm just so bad at it -- I read really, really slowly. It's bizarre being a writer who has trouble reading...

Now I'm off to send my updated file to Derek and read some more. Later!

Now Playing:
Classical music, 89.7

Now Reading:
Forests of the Heart, Charles de Lint

Stories out to Publishers:
20

Today's Words:
1,300

Words for '03:
17,100

Today's Quote:
Charlie fought the urge to drop the sardine can immediately, but didn’t want to give the soldier the pleasure of seeing him flinch. He wondered what sort of nasty creatures had made their way out of the all-important canister. How many were climbing all over the sardine can?

Charlie tossed the can over his shoulder, where it landed directly between the two soldiers. Both of them jumped out of the way.

“I got all my shots before I left Arizona,” he said. He headed up the incline, easily tracking the two sets of prints while watching for other disturbances on the ground and in the trees. “You guys just worry about keeping up, huh?”