Spent the weekend blasting through Eragon, and then Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip, both for the What’s in a Name? Challenge. Hoping to borrow Eldest at the library this week, and also anticipating The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, on hold and awaiting pickup. I’ve started Sakuteiki: Visions of the Japanese Garden, one of my To-Be-Read Challenge books, feeling the need for a little non-fiction break from my fantasy crack-fest.

For the moment, what’s helping me with Olivine is not notes or brainstorming, but drawing. I haven’t drawn… well, the four illustrations I’ve made so far this year, all for Olivine, are the most I’ve drawn in the last several years. Eheh. It’s helping me get ideas, it’s helping me think, it’s helping me relax… the benefits are endless.