Ugh, so I'm sick. I have no idea what I've caught, but I've got this horrible fever and headache, sinus congestion, a little bit of a sore throat, sweats and chills. I started feeling symptoms yesterday morning, and I had so much pressure in my head that I felt like my head was going to split in two when I woke up this morning.
I want to re-read
City of Bones before I go on to read
City of Ashes, its sequel. I got
City of Ashes for Christmas last year and never sat down to read it, even though I've had the time. I don't know, maybe I just haven't really wanted to read it. I read other books. It's just been so long since I read the first one for this series.
It reminds me how I wanted to be an author in high school. Then, I got out of high school and realized I never wanted to share any world I created with the public at large because I'm very possessive of my writing. We all know how fans are. They love the material, but then large chunks of them complain about this and that and how somebody else could have written it better or how this character wouldn't do
that. . . . I wouldn't be able to handle that as a writer. My response would basically be, "Look, I created them, not you. I know my characters, so shut up." I couldn't stand fans wanting to claim material I created as their own. They wouldn't even have it if it weren't for the creator, but so many fans these days have no respect for the people who make the things they love.
So, in short, I'll probably never publish anything I write. Hell, I'd be lucky if anything I wrote that was published was even successful, but I suppose writing has always been my hobby and not something I ever wanted to do professionally.
Meh. I binge watched
Harper's Island over the weekend. It's a cross between an Agatha Christie murder mystery novel and the classic slasher movie
Scream, and it's perhaps one of the best murder mysteries I've ever seen on TV. Most horror stories fail to be all that original, surprising, or draw out long enough for you to care about the characters, but
Harper's Island manages to be all three. Okay, maybe it isn't completely original, but you get the drift. It starts off pretty slow. I wasn't even sure I cared to watch it past the first episode or two, but I stuck with it and the show built up as it went. The second half of the show? Totally worth the wait. Totally.
Now, I'm gonna take some more headache/fever medicine and chill for the night. I'm gonna need a lot of bed rest to get better soon.