Aurora Dimitre's Books and Rambling

I'm currently making my way through Michael Connelly's A Darkness More than Night,  a thriller from about 2000. It's part of a series, but it's one of those adult thriller series where you don't really have to read them in order. At least, that's what a forum from 2007 told me when I typed in if you had to read the Harry Bosch series in order. I'm about 100 pages in, and there have been a couple of true crime references that have been kind of exciting. Menendez Brothers & OJ. But even beyond the references, reading about the crime scenes gives me the sort of feeling of listening to a true crime podcast (albeit a less humorous one than I usually listen to), or like when I still had Netflix and would watch Criminal Minds for a 'true crime' fix, before I started listening to the Last Podcast on the Left. I've been ultra-true crime-y lately, and I realize this, but I go in phases. My last huge true crime phase was right after I watched the mo...

So, a couple of days ago, I started writing a new first draft. A new novel, new project--I just had to. This is like, the second time this has happened in the past couple of months (I don't actually want to go back and count how many first drafts I've written this year because I feel like the number is higher than it should be). And there's nothing wrong with writing first drafts. First drafts are my favorite kind of drafts. But Jesus Christ do I have so many first drafts to rewrite. I guess it says a lot about how I feel about my projects if I can be so easily swayed from them by first drafts, but some I'm holding off on rewriting because I've got to do a lot of research (lookin' at you, last NaNo project). And then there's the fact that no matter the project, there's never that high of a new story. There are new words (my first drafts are pretty much glorified outlines and I always end up completely rewriting them, bar maybe a couple lines of dialogu...