Cthulhu and the Crazies

I love Lovecraftian horror.

(That's a really awkward thing to write.  I went back and forth on it a few times, but "I like Lovecraftian horror" was just too weak.)

They're great, though.  I mean, Lovecraft is pretty much the go-to on that, obviously.  (It's got his name right in the genre!)  At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror, Pickman's Model, and The Shadow out of Time are all really amazing stories about the unknown.  With the partial exception of The Dunwich Horror, they all tell stories of an unfathomable universe of which humanity is a completely insignificant part.  We have no chance to fight back.  We cannot hope to defend against the alien things that exist alongside us.  We cannot hope to even understand them.  They are as beyond us as we are beyond ants.

There's one recurring element to Lovecraftian fiction that always jolts my suspension of disbelief, just a little.  The slightest thing out of the ordinary will drive everyone completely insane.

Books I am reading, NaNo update, and also a new keyboard!

I've decided to add a page to this blog that lists the books that I'm currently reading, and those I have read. (This will not be retroactive. I'm not even going to try to do something like that.) I will probably mention what I'm reading on the main blog as well, but I'll be able to keep a record this way.

Damn you, Brandon Sanderson!

I'm really not sure how anyone expects me to write when Sanderson keeps publishing books every few months.  What?  He doesn't?  Well, it seems that way to me.  From now on, I'm calling him Captain Insano.

Why?  No reason.  I just like the idea.

This might make NaNo harder, but it'll also drive home an important lesson: to write, you must read.  I've seen author after author say this, though a quick Google only turns up Nicholas Sparks (which is funny, cause I've actually never read him).  It sounds like you're just piling another difficulty on top of what's already a difficult process, but it's important.

Seriously, it helps.  Even the little experience I have has taught me that.  Words fall out of my head much easier when I've been reading a lot, lately. 

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