{"id":3350,"date":"2012-06-18T07:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T11:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2012-06-18T08:02:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T12:02:33","slug":"a-few-updates-on-topics-of-possibly-general-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=3350","title":{"rendered":"A few updates on topics of (possibly) general interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

1) Following up on my previous post, I have purchased Against the Day<\/I> for my Kindle. I decided not to buy Inherent Vice<\/I> right away, since if I did I would almost certainly read that instead of Against the Day<\/I>, and I really want to give the latter book a fair try. <\/p>\n

I've started it (1% through! whoo hoo!), and the beginning is as wonderful as it was the last time, but I know there are parts later which are more difficult to get through. We'll see if they are easier now that I don't have to carry a thousand-page object around in order to read them.<\/p>\n

2) There's a new trailer<\/a> for Resident Evil Retribution<\/I> I read an article recently where the writer said the Resident Evil series was his guilty pleasure. Well, as regular readers know, I don't believe in guilty pleasures, and Resident Evil is definitely one of my non-guilty ones<\/a>. I'll write about it in more detail, once I'm finished with Stevie One<\/em>. (Oh, and I love the music at the beginning of the trailer, and the detail of the aluminum baseball bat.)<\/p>\n

(And, yes, if you're new here, this is the blog that has never heard of the idea that some art is \"high\" and some is \"low.\" \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n

3) Speaking of Stevie One<\/I>, there's more posted<\/a>. This is the beginning of Part Seven, which is called \"The Solution,\" so you can probably tell that we're getting near the end.<\/p>\n

4) Here's my plan. Stevie One<\/em> is close to being done. After that, I think I will think about my third novel again. I think I will think about dividing it up into some smaller pieces. Not that the first draft is huge and ungainly, but it is jammed full of people and events, and if I rewrite it now it will be even more so because the mystery stories introduced a lot of new characters who would have to be accounted for. And I think there's a lesson in Stevie One<\/I>, which is my third attempt to tell the story of Claudia and Erika. It was the first time I really managed to tell their story properly, I think, and I think that's because I focused on them more.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you have to dig a little deeper with characters, and you can't dig deeper everywhere at the same time.<\/p>\n

5) Saturday was Bloomsday! Hope you enjoyed it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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