Well, we knew it was bound to happen eventually - I was going to completely miss a Wednesday! However, I do have a good excuse this time, in that I FINISHED MY FIRST DRAFT OF MY SECOND BOOK IN THAT HORROR SERIES I'M WRITING AW YEAAAH.
Now to tear it to pieces. Ugh. I've actually been working on this book just as long as the first one, only this one has been consistently in pieces. It started off as a separate story, and then I realized it fit in after my first book, was rewritten several times to various effect, and with additions and removals and new ideas and the general chaos that seems to accompany everything I do. However, it's finally in one document, all together. Now to edit the damn thing!
Not to go on about that (since what else exactly can I say about it anyway?), instead let's talk about a fact that I just got done reading a book written by Dana Scully!!!
Hey, Hippo!
Okay, no, it was written by Gillian Anderson, who played Dana Scully in The X-Files, one of my all time favorite shows. So, when I heard she was publishing a book, I figured I should probably read it.
(Which is also what I'm going to do with David Duchovny's book, even though I'm pretty sure I'm going to get pissed off at it within 50 pages)
I was just pretty excited in general. I mean, Gillian Anderson! I met her once; it was awesome, and she was really nice and a little scarily focused, really, despite the fact that it was a photo op and she was cycling through people. Plus, her hair in her author photo looks really good.
And her face, and her eye makeup, and all that good stuff.
I will admit, though, that I wasn't really expecting too much. The episode of The X-Files that Anderson wrote was really heavily based in sort of mystic spiritualism, and she's talked before about being fascinated by that element of Scully. Unfortunately, that particular topic isn't particularly interesting to me. On top of that, there's also the fact that she wrote the book with a co-author named Jeff Rovin.
How much book does a ghostwriter write if the ghostwriter is a ghost and nobody knows anything about it?
I was kind of bummed, to be honest. How much of the book, then, was actually her? Was it a matter of just getting someone to smooth out rough edges? Or to completely guide the plot based on a few ideas? The whole thing wasn't really helped by the fact that I found out a few nights later that Jeff Rovin is the very same guy who wrote the joke book that I use for my Make a Bad Day Worse comics!
Not a coincidence that inspires a lot of confidence...
However, to my surprise, I actually did like it! It's bizarre, but plays out in a way that you can at least buy what's being processed. Of course, I could be biased - I'm fascinated by the concept of pre-recorded history and its impact on who we've become, which is discussed in this book (not a spoiler, don't worry)- but overall I remained pretty interested. I'd read the next book for sure. Now to pass it off to Tina, who will have to read it and give me a response as well. Actually, she and I are working on something book related that we will update everyone on in the near future (if we can pull it off - we may do it and be like pbbbbbt; forget it!).
Well, that's Wednesday! Alright, woohoo! Also, Happy Birthday to Samantha tomorrow! Yaaay!
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