progress update
I didn’t get quite as far as I wanted to do this week, but I still reached the 60,000 word point of BLADE OF RIFTS, and I’m about halfway through my outline.
I ended up spending more time on leaf removal than I thought I would this week, since it’s supposed to rain all weekend. While time consuming, it was physically easier than I expected. After some reflection, I realized it was because I’m eleven pounds lighter than this time last year. Which doesn’t sound like all that much, but I guess those pounds were loading bearing or something, I don’t know. 🙂
I’m also 5,000 words into CLOAK OF SILVER, which will be my main project once BLADE OF RIFTS is done.
In audiobook news, Hollis McCarthy, Brad Wills, and Leanne Woodward are working on CLOAK OF FROST, BLADE OF VISIONS, and ELVEN-WARLOCK respectively, and so we’ll have some updates on that in coming weeks! Looking forward to those audiobooks.
Meanwhile, have a happy Halloween and/or Reformation Day weekend, depending on your preference! Though I suspect the different Protestant Reformers would have had different opinions on trick-or-treating, so here is something I wrote last year on the topic.
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-Martin Luther would regard dressing up in costumes as a papist superstition, though he no doubt would be amenable to free food.
-John Calvin would denounce it and write a fifteen-hundred page book explaining why trick-or-treaters were predestined before creation to their fate of collecting candy (if any trick-or-treaters did show up, he would give them toothbrushes).
-Ulrich Zwingli would get killed in battle before he had a chance to develop an opinion.
-John Knox would denounce trick-or-treating as the work of the devil, and blame the entire thing on Elizabeth I specifically and the English in general.
-The Council of Trent would conclude that 10% of all trick-or-treating candy (and fifteen percent of the Reese’s pumpkins, those are good) must be paid to Rome.
-Henry VIII, seeing the outflow of candy from his realm, would demand that all trick-or-treating candy be paid directly to the English Crown, and then would execute one of his wives once he learned she ate all the Reese’s pumpkins before he could get to them.
-Thomas Cromwell would assist King Henry in his efforts, only for Henry to arrest Cromwell, execute him, and seize his stash of Halloween candy.
-Thomas Cranmer would agree with whatever Henry VIII and his heirs wanted, until having an attack of conscience five minutes before his execution, whereupon he will dramatically denounce his previous views and thrust his hand into the fire.
Of course, actual 16th century festivals tended to be much more rambunctious than modern trick-or-treating. 🙂
-JM