Inheritance…Quartet?

So after a rather broad announcement yesterday, amazing amazing AMAZING (slight sarcasm) news has come out from CP.

THE ONCE-WAS TRILOGY IS NOW A QUARTET! (zomg)

And…the third book’s coming out on 9/23/08.

AND A MAJOR CHARACTER’S DYING AT THE END!! (omgomg)

First note: I am a (somewhat) fan of the Inheritance Trilogy. I am aware that from a seasoned writer’s point of view it is NOT a very well-written and uncliche-ed book. However I read the book and got hooked when I was rather young and didn’t know about all that said above, so now I just read it to find out what happens.

Anyway. I don’t see why CP put out a 5-minute or so long video just to explain that the trilogy is now a quartet and someone major dies. Oh well, that’s just me. I also don’t really see how much more plot can be unraveled (there wasn’t a lot to begin with… ) that it needs to take another book unless some new plots get introduced in the third book (which I’m hoping will happen). As for the death of a major character, considering we all thought it was going to be the last book I’m pretty sure no one was surprised that someone major will die. It always happens. It’s cliche.

As for the release date…God can you pick a WORSE time in the year to release it? September 23rd of next year is a Tuesday, aka a school day, aka I don’t have all day to read it like I normally do with hyped books. I’d rather writers take their time than to rush to get a book out, but at least it could be a few weeks earlier in the summer when we don’t have school (and it would probably make more sales too).

Ah well. At least it wasn’t a newsletter about an ink-dip pen.

Oh yea, National Novel Writing Month starts November 1st. You have to try and write a 50,000+ word story by the end of November. I’m doing it this year and I have a small plot planned out…hopefully I’ll finish =x

Haunted High School was today.  The Anime/Manga Club I’m in did a scary room, and I had fun whipping a sword at people for two hours xD.  The Band Room looked freaking sweet as usual (they have a TON of space).  I wanted to go down there after it started but we weren’t allowed to leave the room   I don’t like little kids with attitude who go up to you and say “This is stupid” or “That was lame lets go somewhere else.”  Meh..it took a long time to put up the decorations!  We did manage to get a lot of scares on little kids and some older ones xD.  Little Emo Riding Hood was sweet.