Memeage

[msagara]

Because I know, in general, that people often find memes to be repetitive or not entirely interesting, it's all behind the cut.


If there is any question you would like to ask me about any one of my works, then go ahead! What I meant by a particular line, why I chose that characterization, what I was listening to as I wrote, what crack I was taking and where you can get some ... anything. Anything you might like to know about how I wrote it, I shall do my best to answer.


I'll modify that to say I'm old enough that crack isn't part of the equation, although lack of sleep might be. And I'll then append:

Or if there's any question you would like to ask me about the process, the bookstore, the business in general, and I can answer it, I'll also field those happily.

Taken from terri_osborne, and kradical, but seen elsewhere as well.



ETA: Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrated it late this year (ours being in the less chilly month of October <g>).

Comments

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

You said, as a writer, I'm more interested in what happens after. I'm more interested in writing the funeral than in writing the death; more interested in the cost of action than the necessary action itself.
Of course!!
I was absurdly glad to see this comment. One writing group bit of feedback that drove me crazy was the comment that I ought to start a book with the battle, that was the interesting stuff. Just give us the action, nobody was interested in all that draggy real-life reconstruction and recovery afterward. (Which is where I was interested in starting. Total defeat, hey, it can only get better from here, right?)
Given any sort of competent soldiering, I daresay the battle sequence itself done realistically might be positively pedestrian. Close to boring. How *do* they think Genghis' Mongols regarded the twentieth Chinese city they'd broken down, anyway? Oh yeah, yawn, not much loot here, have you got all those ears yet? How about the piles of heads?
Oh yeah, it's fairly visual for the movies.
I doubt it'd do all that much in a book, honestly.
Now here's a book: It's a dramatically different world to their captive Chinese prisoners, isn't it?

So yeah, that was one piece of feedback that may have proved its worth by irritating me. Dunno if I'll get any pearls out of it.
Of course I wanted to jump up and down and scream something about how the social consequence of such events is *entirely* in what happens afterward. The results can ramify for generations. People obsess for years afterward about the consequences. The feuds go on...for example, if you read the forties Nero Wolfe mysteries which reveal tidbits about the Balkans, you see that it sounds like much the same stuff now!
So much for that group...