I started two new books today: Al-Ghazali's The Alchemy of Happiness and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Lands. Both are part of my writing research. These are relatively short books, and I hope to be done with both of them by week's end. I had read Alchemy in college for an Islamic Philosophy course. It struck me then as a good read, and I'm revisiting it now to help with the religious aspect of the Lisiria Chronicles. Eliot's poem, though also labeled "research", is more just for my personal interest. I've been wanting to read this poem for some time, and never quite got around to it.
I really need to hunker down and write in something this week; I had nothing prepared for the Writer's Circle last week, so that's one strike against me. One more and I'll have to face "punnishment". (I hate writing exercises!) If I can't get the next scene finished in EoG, I'm thinking of taking a break and working on Sanguine Summer, the sequel to the CdB. I have some good ideas for that story, but I really want to continue in EoG and move on to the next part of the story. Hopefully I won't be too exhausted when I get home tonight and can get some work done!
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