Time for another break from writing, to catch up on other things. I read a couple of Anne McCaffrey books, one was Dragonsdawn, the other, The Dolphins of Pern. The first book was interesting in that it showed how the first people to land on Pern established the settlements on the planet, and how they developed the first dragons. That was enjoyable reading, and obviously involved a lot of research, being a heavily sci-fi book as opposed to more fantasy oriented as the other Dragonriders of Pern books are. The second book, Dolphins, was fun in that the earth dolphins that were introduced to Pern's world could speak, and the scenes involving them were charming, but overall, it wasn't a very well written book. It seemed to lack detail in some of the scenes, so that I was not immersed in them. The momentous death of a main character of the Pern books was skimmed over to three paragraphs, and while it was from the perspective of the settlers of a southern hold, there was little mention of anyone else's reaction. I dunno, it was a bit scattered and rather disappointing. Not sure why that is. I'm not that great at literary criticism, but instead judge whether a book is readable for me, or not. Having a lousy attention span borne from long years raising a couple of challenging kids, I'm hoping that I can improve on that.
The introduction of new scenes in my book has been good, because finally finally finally, after ears of pondering and working things out, it's getting knitted together. Yes, it's taken me that long.
There's a storm blowing in from the Pacific today and lasts until the next morning, and hopefully the power will stay on. It's blowing pretty hard out there already, and the real winds are supposed to be in until 4 or 5 this afternoon. Sheesh.
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