Progress, And, Yeah, I Guess That's Progress, Too

[dr_pretentious]

It looks like we'll be sending advance copies of Closing Arguments out for blurb requests and reviews this week, and like the release will be before the end of this month. Hooray!

The moment when the Ria story will be needed approaches rapidly, though we have no deadline. So what does my brain want to work on? The Big Book, or rather, Big Book Volume 2, a project nobody wants. O Brain! Get with the program! The sprawling epic of Beltresin revolution might eventually see the light of day, but the best way to get that to happen is to succeed wildly with the Rugosa stories. Which would require finishing the new Rugosa stories I've already started.

It's going to be a really big deal to me the first time I finish a new project, post-birth. Before I had a child, I was really good at finishing things--especially long, seemingly impossible things. I've been working, working, working, but haven't finished a story in almost a year.

Well, at least my brain wants to work on a manuscript. I was kind of worried that the mommy neurochemistry would knock out my writing drive. Down and sideways, but not out.

Comments

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Down and sideways is enough to work with. You can do this, and you've done harder work before. What about the "write during one incense stick" strategy work here?

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

I've been toying with that idea, but respirable particulates are not good for babies. Actually, respirable particulates are bad for everybody, but they're worse for babies than for adults. The incense stick trick might be okay on the porch, but I'm trying to reserve indoor incense use for ritual.

[kistha.livejournal.com]

Let's hear it for more Rugosa stories!

Love 'em I do!

[mystcphoenxcafe.livejournal.com]

Greetings!

Hooray indeed! :-)

"The moment when the Ria story will be needed approaches rapidly, though we have no deadline. So what does my brain want to work on? The Big Book, or rather, Big Book Volume 2, a project nobody wants. O Brain! Get with the program!"

*hehehehhe* While as yet unpublished, me (in large part due to a similar problem - what IS it w/brains anyway??? :-P), I share your pain. :-D

"Well, at least my brain wants to work on a manuscript. I was kind of worried that the mommy neurochemistry would knock out my writing drive. Down and sideways, but not out."

Hey, as long as it's not out, life is good, neh? :-) *salutes you w/raised pencil*

-Katrina

[jasminewind.livejournal.com]

Non-writer asking here.

Does it ever work to say, "No, Brain. Today we are working on Ria's story. BBV2 is going to have to wait."?

I'm looking forward to reading another Rugosa story!

[violet-moon25.livejournal.com]

I would love to see another Rugosa story too! Perhaps you can channel your character's inner compulsiveness? Good luck. Being a mommy does weird things to your life...and your brain...and your body (pretty much in the reverse order).

I'm with your brain on this one

[(Anonymous)]

Work on the big book II. I've been dying for a sneak peak at what happens to those characters farther down the storyline.

Anne K

Re: I'm with your brain on this one

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

My niece sang me that song about the Eerie Canal, and now all my brain wants to talk about is what happens when Vaia and Kelin are hiding on the canal barge on the way to Twenty Locks after the riot.

I'm putting a lot of time into preparing Closing Arguments for launch, corresponding with my editor and the intern who's coordinating reviews, making sure all the promotional material is ready to go online, soliciting blurbs, an so on. Maybe the Rugosa characters are so bogged down in business that my creativity is heading for the story that has no business going on at all.

Re: I'm with your brain on this one

[(Anonymous)]

Don't say that. Your book has every right to keep pushing you to write it. At least jot down the little ideas as they fly by. Your rugosa stories are lovely, but the big book has so much delicious texture and complexity...