Finished Fables vol 9. Liked it a lot. Pleased to see certain characters, although remain vaguely dissatisfied that Snow's only role now is "Mommy". I mean, sure, she has a litter of kids, but she also has a whole heap of people willing to babysit, if she were to like, go and kick some ass again. *le sigh*.
I have been working steadily since returning from Australia on proofing my first draft...just going through and circling typos and making notes of stuff that needs to be added and striking through extraneous words and bits that are terrible continuity.
I think my favourite moment for bad continuity was when I had one of the main characters reading a map of the magical land. Which has never been mentioned before, is never mentioned since, and since the main premise is that they are *lost* in this world and need a guide....well. I struck right through that sentence, let me tell you.
I'm actually quite enjoying this phase, maybe because it's quick, and interesting and relatively easy. I am a little scared of the rewriting phase, but I'll face that when I come to it.
I watched some old episodes of the Twilight Zone last night, specifically ones Seraph had told me were the good ones, and man they really were good. Spooky and unsettling and awesome. I like the Children's Zoo, Shatterday, Monsters and Button, button the best. Shadow Man was spooky as, but kept reminding me of an episode of Goosebumps, so made me laugh as well.
I have the DVD of Leonard Cohen: I'm your man. I think it must have just come out, and I got it with a birthday voucher from Trade Me, so I'm pleased indeed.
I looked in town but no one had the new Bloody Jack books, so I ordered them off fishpond. They were dispatched just an hour ago! So exciting! I would have ordered from goodbooksnz, but they only had one of the new ones and I must have both. I have run out of space on my graphic novel shelf. I am thinking I will have to make a separate manga shelf...hee hee hee.
PoF: stop cutting the magical tree
CO: do some more proofing!