Body politics

misia has a recommended reading list.

bookkeeping

emperor: 1,993 words to finish Chapter Eight. 4,273 words in 8 total; 25,766 in the story thus far. It's coming along nicely.

Going to take cool bath now, before I melt into a puddle of sticky goo on this chair.

operatic metaphors for novelistic structure

This is matociquala's fault. Just so y'all know that.

When I was a kid, nine or ten maybe, my father the opera buff made me listen to a recording called something like "The Interpretation of Wagner's Ring Cycle." Although opera bores me silly, I realized today that I actually internalized something from that recording and have come to use it as a way to think about compositional structure in my writing.

( Interested? )

Which goes to show that even Wagner has his uses.