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I went to bed when Scott did last night. That was 9:00 which was late for him, given when he had to get up, but quite early for me. We turned out our lights before Cordelia did. I didn’t sleep as well as I’d have liked to because I was way too warm and didn’t figure out that that was the problem for quite a while.

I ended up poking at ideas for a fic. I’m trying to decide how far to change canon because the point at which I want to set it doesn’t entirely work. I want two particular characters to interact, but in canon, the second character arrives after several other people do, and the two characters are only in the same place for a few seconds. I have an idea for an interesting interaction between the first character and a third character, but the prompt was for a particular pairing. I suppose I could shift to a different point in time, but I really like the potential dynamics right then, so I don’t know.

We only got three political calls yesterday. I expected more, given the primary today, but we got one Sanders, one Clinton, and one Kasich, and none after about 7:00. I’m a little surprised not to have gotten many so far today (just one, Sanders). Polls have been open for hours now. I am going to wait for Scott to get home this afternoon and go vote then. He started his shift at 3:00 a.m., so they can’t keep him too much past 3:00 p.m.

Apparently, I can’t donate those protein drink supplement samples. Scott’s been drinking them, and there’s only one left. At least, they got used. Definitely a cash donation to the food bank is the way to go. I suspect that the folks who work there will have a much better idea of what’s useful and of how to make things stretch than I do.

I’m debating doing Camp NaNo in April or signing up for

wipbigbang. I feel like I need to do something to get myself moving, but I worry about committing to something and getting sick again. I’m just not sure if I’ll write without making a commitment of some sort.

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Sounds possibly mysterious that fic idea of yours. :-)

::laughs:: It's for a book fandom, Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles, specifically the second series. I'm having two problems. One is the logistics of who is where when. The other is that my premise will change the main character considerably. The books are first person, and he has a distinctive voice. I'm just thinking that Zelazny didn't carry a particular thing through to its logical conclusion (he was writing in the 1970s and 1980s, and I've always thought that he was making up the story as he went along).

Sounds like the Gormenghast series... :-) That writer succumed to demetia by the end of it, so the last book was never written. :-) Brilliant books, by the way. I highly recommend them.

I really should try the Gormenghast books again. The first time I did, I was in elementary school, and I really did not understand what was going on and ended up just giving up. Of course, I have anxiety issues with books these days, so I often give up after a few chapters, not because the book is terrible but just because it's not something I can handle.

Zelazny is one of those authors that people tend to either really like or really hate. I've only met a few people who were tepid on the subject. Some of his prose is really beautiful, particularly in his short stories, and he was very good at setting a mood. He was, however, pretty terrible at female characters.

The second Amber series isn't as good as the first. I think it's because Zelazny wrote it because he knew it would sell rather than because he was actually interested in returning to that universe. (He actually said as much when I saw him at a local convention in the 1990s. He was startled and very pleased when I brought him a book to sign that wasn't part of the Amber series.) It's not a terrible read, assuming you like Zelazny's writing, but it has plot points that come out of nowhere and some characterization that doesn't work for me.

If you want to try Zelazny, I'd recommend starting either with some of his short stories or with A Night in the Lonesome October.