Work on The Lazarus Stone (Conspiracy Edit) has stalled for now. It's almost finished, and it will be released this summer. The devil's in the details, and in this case the 'details' would be editing.
I'm blaming sunburn, but really it's just laziness on my part. I set a goal, and it was a smidge too high for my half-assed leap. A lot of things have slid by the wayside in the wake of my picking up books to read instead of write for a change. I forgot just how much I really enjoy reading a good story.
Recently finished The Colorado Kid by Stephen King. Great story, as always. I'll admit I picked it up because I really dig the TV show based on it and I wanted to find out what it was all about. I was hoping to solve the mysteries before the show laid it all out, you see, in case the show got cancelled as so many awesome shows with plot and depth often do these days. I was bamboozled, however, and I'm glad. The story is only marginally in keeping with the TV show in that they find a John Doe on the beach, and he's dubbed 'The Colorado Kid'. There's two old gents who work the newspaper, too, and they're basically the same on the page and on the screen. And that's where the similarities end, but in a good way. It's like coming to a fork in the road and taking first one way and finding where it goes. Later on, a month or so, you come back to that same fork and decide to take the other way to find out where that one goes. Same destinations, you find, but a different way of getting there.
But I digress. We were talking about the apocalypse, right?
We're on the same wavelength a bit here. I've been reading instead of editing/writing. It's my go to activity when depressed. And now I am in the middle of a series and don't want to stop. Going to finish formatting The Game today at the very least. Thought I was done but caught a time inconsistency at the last minute.
Posted by: Odinlucasrocks | June 06, 2011 at 05:30 PM