I spent yesterday afternoon in the seventh century with a teenaged Hild who has just been spurned by her first love, who has (in her eyes) not only been spurned but publicly humiliated. She is feeling all this the way only a teenager going through this stuff for the first time can. To help me along I played Evanescence. Loud. Oooh, sturm und drang aint in it! But then Kelley popped her head in my office said, Hey, time to go! and we had to shoot out of the house to meet a friend for drinks.
Strangely--to me, at least--we were meeting to celebrate a happy occasion, a new phase of her life in terms of love and joy. Mildly disorientating. But, hey, not boring.
Hild tidbits: I now have 900 pages: 187,000 words. But I really, really am nearing the end. Or, at least, the the end of the beginning...
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Waiting with bated breath to read these books! They couldn't sound more delicious.
ReplyDeleteKelly, it occurred to me yesterday that when I finish this draft I'll have to set aside ten days just to read and reread the thing. It's so huge I'm going to have to create spreadsheets for names of people and places. It's going to be tricky going to that gestalt place: holding it all in my head at once so I can see how to rewrite it and turn words + story into art + beauty. Huge, huge, huge...
ReplyDeleteI'm with Kelly; I can't wait!
ReplyDelete900 pages!
jennifer, and still growing...
ReplyDeleteAnd every page delectable...
ReplyDeleteJude, I remember that conversation we had a while ago--this time I'll save the discards and make them available in some way or other.
ReplyDeleteThat is one monster of a book you're writing. Editing is certainly going to be an experiance for you and Kelley. One I envy.
ReplyDeleteI was browsing the website of an author who said that you should write in silence because if you can't keep yourself entertain by your writing then you can't entertain your reader with it either.
Worst writing advice I'd ever heard.
For me music is essential.
transceptor, it's about 50/50 for me--sometimes with music, sometimes without.
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