Read/reading: Drive by James Sallis, A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.

Drive was lean, and brilliant, and reminded me that some writers can say more in ten words than others can say in a hundred. It gives me confidence. When I’m writing fiction, I try and pare things down to the essentials, but you see it so rarely that often I wonder if I’m not just doing it for simplicity’s sake. I’ll definitely be looking at more of Sallis’s work.

… you don’t need me to talk about A Game of Thrones. Its reputation more than precedes it.