Yes, very much same, about the Lord Godalming comparison. On the one hand, the car tour is probably a lot harder to abuse than what Arthur was doing (in the noble cause of hunting a vampire, but it's not as if the people handing over confidential client information and so on knew that), but on the other hand, his motivation for leaning on his money and title are not exactly deeply principled...
It's true, about the segments! I did really enjoy the real-time effect with Dracula, but I'm not sure it works quite as well for The Lightning Conductor where the letters are SO much longer and the timeline perhaps less deeply relevant to the story. But who knows, perhaps it may yet prove to be. I agree that for any novel without the epistolary or date-fixed conceit, though, I'm really enjoying the reasonable and consistent segment length.
It is indeed Travel Light! As of today I'm 72 pages into it (a certain horse race has just been successfully won) and enjoying it immensely. Every so often one reads a thing and is like, "this is a mode I aspire to write in, or at least to be able to write something that one could reasonably compare to this," like something clicking into an empty slot on a mental bookshelf, and the voice of Travel Light is proving to be one such for me, which is very fun. And I love Halla.
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Date: 2022-12-16 03:17 am (UTC)It's true, about the segments! I did really enjoy the real-time effect with Dracula, but I'm not sure it works quite as well for The Lightning Conductor where the letters are SO much longer and the timeline perhaps less deeply relevant to the story. But who knows, perhaps it may yet prove to be. I agree that for any novel without the epistolary or date-fixed conceit, though, I'm really enjoying the reasonable and consistent segment length.
It is indeed Travel Light! As of today I'm 72 pages into it (a certain horse race has just been successfully won) and enjoying it immensely. Every so often one reads a thing and is like, "this is a mode I aspire to write in, or at least to be able to write something that one could reasonably compare to this," like something clicking into an empty slot on a mental bookshelf, and the voice of Travel Light is proving to be one such for me, which is very fun. And I love Halla.