Bad Monster Tropes

Hallo! National Novel Writing Month is next week, and that is very stressful. There are less stressful things on the way too, though–YALLFest is coming up, and next week there will be pizza. You win some, you lose some. I am also currently re-reading Guards! Guards!, so expect that in the Book Diary review if you’re on Facebook or Goodreads.

I wanted to do something vaguely for Halloween, and I settled on this. I’m not really a horror guy, it’s the best I can do. 

Another listing! I’ve been re-reading some Limyaael recently as well.

On Designated Love Interests

 My guts have been acting up these past couple of days, so I’ve been having some trouble focusing. I very almost wrote another Note about fiction that refers to history without knowing what they’re talking about–but I have one of those on-site on The Emperor’s Club, and I have trouble keeping an audience as it is without repeating myself so quickly.

Well, okay, I think I have written about Designated Love Interests before, though I can’t find it on the blog. That means it’s fair game, right? I thought about it a bit when I read Shadow of the Wind a couple of weeks back.

In other news, National Novel Writing Month is coming, and I feel like I should start outlining. I haven’t started outlining. Oof.

On Protagonists Killing People They Know

 As I said before, I am seriously considering making a sort of online set of annotations for books (through Blogger, perhaps). Then again, I seriously consider many ideas that tend not to go anywhere because of melancholy. Or something. I don’t know. Maybe World War III is starting and there’s no point to anything.

Anyhow, this week I read another Brandon Sanderson book, which was quite fun, and I suspect the next book will be The Lost Years of Merlin (which would also be fun to annotate).

Cool Settings for Historical Fiction/Fantasy

 I did not know if I would have time for a Saturday Note this week, and I don’t really have that much–so forgive me that this one is a bit hasty.

Once again, the urge overcame me to create a website of annotations for certain books, much like we see with L-Space or the 13th Depository. I like making book annotations! And at times I feel like I have contributed very little else worthwhile to the Intersnet.