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Well, I'm Back
Oct. 13th, 2012 05:38 pm...after 8 glorious days in Western Massachusetts, housesitting for friends and riding my (well, their) bike into town along a black bike trail already streaked with yellow leaves (and let me tell you about the day I waited til after sundown, to discover that it wasn't lit....woooo-ooooo! I am brave), making endless cups of tea and pacing the kitchen and bending the ears of various pals with my writerly angst.
At the end of which, I can safely say that the new novel is well underway. Not as many pages as I could wish, but a very strong sense of who these people are and where they're going, and pretty much how they'll get there. And some scenes I like a lot. I've got to turn back to some more pressing deadlines, now, but I think I've got what I need to return to this with vigor (instead of the previous sense of vague dread and impending despair) when I'm done with them.
I will spare you my meditations on what a tremendously inspiring and encouraging speaker I am when it comes to other peoples' process and WIP, and how dismally and utterly I can fail to take my own advice. Really, it's quite remarkable. Sometimes I amaze even myself.
Tomorrow morning, I hit New York Comic Con, where I'll be interviewing Wendy & Brian Froud on their latest book - and first official collaboration - TROLLS. It's stunning (and, despite it slenderness, it weighs a ton!). Terri Windling's husband Howard Gayton - and his creative partner Rex van Ryn - interviewed Brian & Wendy this summer, in the village they all live in together. It's a lovely discussion on collaboration. You can read it here.
Me, I'm on a collaborative streak: Just went over the page proofs for the story I wrote last year with Caroline Stevermer for the upcoming Datlow/Windling anthology, QUEEN VICTORIA'S BOOK OF SPELLS . . . halfway through recording the audiobook for THE FALL OF THE KINGS (which I wrote with Delia, pretty early in our relationship) - D & I have 2 meeting this week with our director/producer, Sue Zizza, about music & casting for the "illuminated" version . . . .Am working with Ysabeau Wilce (yaayyy!) on something for a Jonathan Strahan anthology . . . . and Terri Windling & I are talking about drafting something together when she's here in November for FaerieCon.
I like working with other people. When it's the right project, and they're the right ones. I've also had some real stinkers of collaborations, so it's not like I'm the dream partner for everyone (nor they for me). But when it's right, it's divine! Maybe another reason I am drawn to theater.
At the end of which, I can safely say that the new novel is well underway. Not as many pages as I could wish, but a very strong sense of who these people are and where they're going, and pretty much how they'll get there. And some scenes I like a lot. I've got to turn back to some more pressing deadlines, now, but I think I've got what I need to return to this with vigor (instead of the previous sense of vague dread and impending despair) when I'm done with them.
I will spare you my meditations on what a tremendously inspiring and encouraging speaker I am when it comes to other peoples' process and WIP, and how dismally and utterly I can fail to take my own advice. Really, it's quite remarkable. Sometimes I amaze even myself.
Tomorrow morning, I hit New York Comic Con, where I'll be interviewing Wendy & Brian Froud on their latest book - and first official collaboration - TROLLS. It's stunning (and, despite it slenderness, it weighs a ton!). Terri Windling's husband Howard Gayton - and his creative partner Rex van Ryn - interviewed Brian & Wendy this summer, in the village they all live in together. It's a lovely discussion on collaboration. You can read it here.
Me, I'm on a collaborative streak: Just went over the page proofs for the story I wrote last year with Caroline Stevermer for the upcoming Datlow/Windling anthology, QUEEN VICTORIA'S BOOK OF SPELLS . . . halfway through recording the audiobook for THE FALL OF THE KINGS (which I wrote with Delia, pretty early in our relationship) - D & I have 2 meeting this week with our director/producer, Sue Zizza, about music & casting for the "illuminated" version . . . .Am working with Ysabeau Wilce (yaayyy!) on something for a Jonathan Strahan anthology . . . . and Terri Windling & I are talking about drafting something together when she's here in November for FaerieCon.
I like working with other people. When it's the right project, and they're the right ones. I've also had some real stinkers of collaborations, so it's not like I'm the dream partner for everyone (nor they for me). But when it's right, it's divine! Maybe another reason I am drawn to theater.
