I’m pretty sure the punishment for saying I was having fun writing is getting two sets of copy edits to do in two weeks. I knew about the TQB ones; I had three weeks’ warning that they’d be coming in. I did not know about the HOUSE OF CARDS ones; I got email late Thursday night saying “We’re sending you copy edits and can we have them back Wednesday?” The answer there is, “No.” :) I spent the train ride up to Dublin, and a good part of Friday afternoon…
Year: 2007
oh yeah, this is why I do this job
For the first time in almost exactly a year, I’m having fun writing. QUEEN’S BASTARD was fun to write, but pretty much everything I’ve done since then has been pure hell, for one reason or another. Two days ago, for the first time in writing this book, I started to have a spark of excitement about it. Yesterday I did a little over 5K, and actually *enjoyed* it. I’d forgotten what it was like to have fun writing. What it was like to be excited about the story and happy…
more flocked writing stuff: hands of flame
Yesterday, for possibly the first time since beginning this book, I actually felt a spark of excitement about writing it. I’ve gotten back to more or less where I was (heavier on the ‘less’ side, I’m afraid, as 300 pages is still a long way away), and the book has a significantly different shape than it did before. I was able to keep several chapters almost entirely unchanged, and now instead of taking the easy way out at the end of that section I’m rewriting it entirely to launch my…
books!
They finally brought my BOOKS! Well, the other box of them, anyway. Ted thought I was silly for having to take a look at the new box, ’cause they’re the same as the others, but I *had* to! Just in *case*! I noticed today our moratorium on buying new books seems to have something of a hitch in it. I’ve read 11 books since we decided to do that. I’ve received two free books in the mail since then, and we got 3 yesterday on a gift certificate Ted got…
*laughs*
Last night I went and talked to ‘s writer’s group, which was fun. Kate picked up a copy of HEART OF STONE while she was at it. She was agonizing over having both a new book *and* having to get up for work in the morning. I, of course, didn’t help by saying, “Hey, you’ll be the first person not intimately related to the production of the book or *me* to have read it, if you stay up all night!” I got email from her this morning saying she was…