Yup, that’s 30k you see there.
I did take some time this past week and got out of my office (!!!) and saw people (!!!!). I am very lucky to have gotten to reconnect with a very dear friend of mine that I hadn’t gotten to see in more years than I want to put a number to- and while chatting about how the book was going, I realized that this is something new to me. While I’ve always had an outline of which direction the wind was ablowin’, it was never something I could articulate with the level of detail that I can here. I’m typically good at beginning, middle, end, and end up wandering around a bit to let the characters tell me how they are going to get there.
Because the basis of this book is so different, and I get to write in so many voices, it’s a completely different experience. In the past 18 days, I’ve been a faerie queen, trapped in the body of a horse, a pair of wise guys, a cranky old Russian woman, and a few others that we’ll talk about later.
So far, while I’ve done more research for this book than any other I’ve written, I’m also having an absolute blast writing it.
And the folks that have gotten snippets of this or that have been wonderfully complimentary- for which I am deeply thankful, sometimes to the point of tears.
Writing is lonely. If you think about it a certain way, it’s a long conversation I’m having with the people that live in my head. To know that other people want to hear from them, too, is incredibly validating… like I’m not wasting all of this time and energy and imagination to no purpose- that the story will be heard.
Thank you to everyone who’s been listening lately. I love you all and couldn’t do what I’m doing without your support.
Curiouser and Curiouser 