Hey, this is a lot for me...lemme alone

I promise this entry won't be as long as yesterday's.

I finished Cell by Stephen King. I was a little hesitant after reading Bag of Bones (I still don't know if I liked it), but I was in need of something to read and Carrie offered it to me (better than the romance novels she's got) so I figured why not.

I loved it. And it helped me realize why I had such a problem with Bag of Bones. I thought it was primarily because it was in first person (I have a bizarre love-hate relationship with first person stories, particularly books...we're going to couple's counseling). I connected with the characters in Cell better than I did with the characters in Bag of Bones. I cared about Clay and Tom and Alice and Jordan. I really didn't care much about Mike Noonan. For me, Bag of Bones would have done better as a book report.

In conclusion, I really liked Cell and I'm glad Carrie suggested it to me.

But once again, I'm out of things to read.

I finished edits on "Backroom", "Rotting Gracefully", and "My Winter With Stanley". I'm afraid I'm missing something on them because I didn't cut or change as much as I thought I would on those stories. They're either not as raw as I remember or I was in a particularly soft editing mood today.

I also started writing a new short story. I'm calling it "Elevator" for now. I know I said I wouldn't start writing until I got my editing caught up, but I'm not to be trusted. And, I'm writing it for a contest that has a 1,500 word limit, so it shouldn't take up too much of my time to write.

Which is good because I need to start rewrites on "In the Dark" this week and that promises to take up a lot of my time.