Mittwoch
Posted on | January 23, 2008 | No Comments
I spent most of last night working on my review of The Painter of Battles but didn’t get it finished. Maybe tonight. Reviews are funny things. They start as a conglomeration of ideas and quotes (in this case, I made three or four pages of notes while I read the book, noting some especially quoteworthy passages) and grow into paragraphs and evolve into something that I hope has continuity and flow. I’m to the point where I’ve got paragraphs, but I’m still working on the flow.
I didn’t watch anything on the tube last night at all, though I did tape SVU and Boston Legal. I read a few more chapters of The Barbarous Coast and continue to marvel at Ross Macdonald’s style. For a noir writer, he’s very descriptive and he makes me aware of some of the descriptive shortcomings in my own writing, especially in my longer works. I love his dark view of people that oozes into the way he chooses to describe them.
Speaking of which, I added another 1200 words to the novel-in-progress this morning. Then, after my shower, I thought of a couple of things that needed to be addressed, so I hand-wrote myself a note for the next session.
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Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
