Weekly writing progress:
Woohoo!
Book 2, An Eager God, is done. All I have left to do is make sure the blurb is where I want it before sending it to my cover artist to include on the paperback.
I am now about eight chapters into my read through of the third book, The Lies of the Heavens. It's always odd going back to a rough draft because, well... it's rough. It's also kind of cool, though, because I get to have moments of "Oh YEAH! THAT'S what happened".
Importantly, this one is going to take more work than the last two at this stage. I have more POVs than the previous books and I knew, even as I finished the rough draft, that I would need to add chapters and shift things. I'm hopeful that the book will be done and released by the end of the year. I'm going to work my hardest on it.
Lastly, I spoke with my short story cover designer and that should be done in early May, so I will be sending out a second email through my email list in May to get everyone that short story, The Princess. So make sure you sign up for the list at mjlindemann.com if you haven't!
No other news on the writing front!
What I've been up to:
TV
We watched the Shogun finale and it was really good. *spoilers in this paragraph if you continue reading* I feel like it was a rather muted last episode, and I would have appreciated a more emotional conclusion to the Blackthorne/Toronaga relationship - but I'm not going to complain. I also recognize that present day morals and that time period in Japan are not exactly compatible, but it made it REAL hard to think of Toronaga as a good guy when he burned Blackthorne's ship down, blamed the fishing village, and killed innocent fishermen as a ruse to keep Blackthorne in Japan. That final shot of him looking all regal felt tainted. I'm not sure if that's faithful to the book or not, but still, there it is. 5/5 show though. I'd recommend it to anyone that likes samurai/feudal japan stories.
I started Hell's Paradise and it's another gorefest battle anime with ninja magic so... right up my alley. I don't expect it to light the world on fire, but it's well animated and it's great to have on while I work out.
Speaking of lighting the world on fire... we finished Fallout and we loved it. It's a little on the nose with some of it's themes where some characters feel like they're almost turning to the camera and monologuing directly to the audience to make sure we "get it", but I almost think shows HAVE to do that now since... ya know... homophobes and racists seem to think X-men and star trek and star wars are "woke" now when they've *always been* "woke". Anyway, that's a whole topic I may get into some other time. But yeah, Fallout is excellent and everyone should watch it if for no other reason than it is just a really, REALLY fun time.
Books
The Fires of Heaven is still the book I'm reading. I'm 60% through now. Nynaeve is taking way too long to develop, but her chapters have been extremely entertaining so I don't know how much I care? Rand seems more capable than he should be for someone who was a farm boy like... a year ago. That can be explained away with "past memories", but I kinda wish Robert Jordan would have made it a bit more explicit that his intelligence and strategy is coming from his connection to his past lives. It's obvious that's what is happening, but usually there are some words indicating that's the case, and in this recent chapter there wasn't any indication. Anyhoozle, this is still the best entry I've read since the first book. I'm extremely fond of the first book, but I think that's because I like beginnings of stories more than anything else.
Games
Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth - I'm both continuously impressed with what SquareEnix has managed to do with this game and intermittently frustrated by how absolutely horrendous some of the mini-games are. I'm the type of gamer that likes to "perfect" games when I can, and some of these mini-games were terribly designed. Cosmo Canyon looks fantastic, though, and the further I progress the more comfortable I am with the combat and the game's combat is just amazing (though I think it's on the easy side). Even if I do still wish it was turn based. *sigh* AAA turn based RPG's. Where you at? I miss you.
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