When I started this blog, I had high intentions for it. No matter if anyone else ever read it, I planned on using it as a motivational tool for my own little writing course. I would read books and analyze them for their style and voice, their pacing, their world-building, etc. I would treat blogging like an assignment for school, and therefore I would keep on track.

Of course I didn’t.

But I’ve kept on reading, and I’ve kept on thinking, and I have quite a few books I’ve recently finished that I want to post about. My thought here is that if I make this little promise right here and now, in words, I’ll actually do it.

So. Coming up, look for:

• On Creating an Imaginary World that Looks an Awful Lot Like the Real World: Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn and The Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee.
• On Scenes and Pacing: Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane.
• On Voice: In the Woods by Tana French.