Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Now is the time that face should form another;
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 Looked back at a work in progress.  Realized I had stopped putting in chapters about a tenth of the way in. . . .

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Even in Kyoto
Hearing the cuckoo's cry
I long for Kyoto

Matsuo Bashō

When sending my characters on an actual dungeon crawl. . .

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Was reading a discussion online about how kobold lairs are so often provided with tunnels wide enough for humans, and sometimes two or three to walk abreast.

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The moon hangs in the sky as dark a blue as can be, itself a narrow golden curve, with a lone star hanging in the blue by it.

Night. The sky all cloudy, hiding both moon and stars. The geese, their skein invisible, still flying, and calling in the distance.

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Was contemplating the Adult Problem today:  in a novel with a young protagonist dealing with more than growing up -- say, alien invasion, tyrannical government, etc. -- the adults have to be kept out the limelight to allow the protagonist to solve the problem.  BUT --
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Collected Essays by Graham Greene

A large number of essays. Most reviews of books and discussion of authors -- a few of whom you probably heard of -- many contemporary to him and others historical. The variegated subjects give him a lot of different topics to hold forth on. Also on a few other topics, like the experience of being bombed.

"Of simple plots and actions the episodic are the worst. I call a plot episodic when there is neither probability nor necessity in the sequence of episodes." -- Aristotle

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Ghost in the Maze by Jonathan Moeller

Ghost Exile Book 2. Spoilers ahead for earlier works.

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