Yes, I'm getting to it once again. I finished Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child a couple of days ago. It was good. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I don't think I'll read another by Lee Child for awhile. I have since started Strangers by Dean Koontz. Yes, I took a break from Dean Koontz and read about four books. I have read quite a few Dean Koontz books, so I know his style pretty well and I like the fact that he always has psychology in his books and well as philosophy. He doesn't shove it down your throat and he doesn't just put people together and see what happens. There's always an underlying point to everything. I would've put Gone Tomorrow as a book I'd read, but jacketflap.com doesn't seem to have the book listed.
On the writing front, I've finished Chapter 18 and am working on Chapter 19. A good deal of Chapter 18 was dedicated to the story behind a rather new character in the book. Her name is Karnei and as soon as I put her in the Leviathan chapter several chapters back I knew there was going to be more to her. Now, some of her story has been established and in Chapter 19 I'm getting back to a villain in the story. Several story elements are quickly revealed. I felt it was time to say what had happened earlier in the story, and with the kind of villain I'm working with, he says things and thinks about things as though they are nothing. I'm looking forward to writing more from his perspective in the story. One of the things of recent horror movies that I don't like is that the movie shows the villain. I'm a firm believer in showing as little as possible about a villain. That makes he/she/it much more mysterious.
Well, anyway, that's it for now.
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Ben Fichter,
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