This was a short week work wise for me, because I spent Monday catching up with stuff I normally do over the weekend. Therefore this week I only managed to put my butt in the chair for four days to produce 5,822 words that brings the running total of my third novel up to 51,295.
Not as much as I would like to have written, but for me targets are guidelines, so no real grumbles on this front.
Saturday I went along to a writers group critique session, and sat and listened to them do what they do, which was most interesting. I'd been told that such events were quite critical, but what I observed was largely constructive, so assuming that they'll take my money I'm joining them.
To some extent this is going to be my new social group to fill in for the lack of a job where I meet people to talk to. So all good I think.
On the watching TV front we are still working through Stargate SG1 and have just started season eight.
Season seven had what I think is one of the best end of season finales the show ever did. It was the one where Anubis attacks Earth and the SG1 have to use the lost Ancient defense base to defeat the big bad.
All very satisfying with the X303 Prometheus and X302 fighter footage up against Goa'uld death gliders and Al'kesh attack ships while Ha'tak motherships rained fire down from orbit. All deliciously over the top action. Season seven also had the very moving two-parter that features the death of one of the series reoccurring secondary characters that was very well done.
One rant about the show and this is about the treatment of Samantha Carter and the writers effectively making her into the Black Widow by having all her relationships end in terminal situations.
I know that Daniel and Teal'c both lost people and O'Neill's whole story arc centers on the death of his son and separation from his wife, but Samantha is just the crash test dummy of relationship difficulties.
One could almost imagine it was as if they could think of no other way of developing her character.
Reading wise I've just started Control Point by Myke Cole, but haven't yet finished it, so I feel it's too early to comment, so I'll come back to it next week. Off now to have a Lazy Sunday afternoon, hence the Zombies song YouTube link, and enjoy the autumnal sun coming through the windows of our flat.
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