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

[twiegand.livejournal.com]

I know you write a lot at night. Is this to reduce interuptions? I find that when others are around they invariably want to talk to me while I'm trying to concentrate on writing. Or can you raise two boys and write while they tear up the house playing and stuff?

[drenilop.livejournal.com]

I've enjoyed seeing gender role tension done well in your Sun Sword series. Did you start out intending to explore the issues of gender role and social identity, or was that more or less accidental (a function of the plot shaping itself)?

[larryhammer]

I think I know the answer(s), but I'll ask anyway. Why graduate students?

---L.

[next-bold-move.livejournal.com]

This is almost in the spirit of what you posted. I'm going to give it a shot...

Do you have a favorite scene? A favorite line? What are they?

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

In the SUNDERED books, what made the Light/Dark dualities powerful for you when you were writing them?

And thank you, by the way, for being so willing to field questions--about publishing, about contracts, about romance novel placement, about so many things of interest.

[vsherbie.livejournal.com]

are you planning on tying the story of Cecily into the main plot line or leave it our on its own?

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Do you have any good links or recommendations on informational books for a person considering opening an independent bookstore/cafe in a small (central-northern California) town which doesn't have a bookshop of any kind at the moment? Is that a totally insane idea? Do indie bookshops ever even break even, let alone make money?

(No, I'm not considering a career change, but someone I know is.)

[melinda-goodin.livejournal.com]

"Two things had to be real, to give the ending its shape: one, the sense of loss and the pervasive sense of grief, and two, the desire to transcend that. You have to have something to transcend"

Oh! You've just encompassed the whole reason why the last act in my book doesn't work. And now I know how to fix it! Thank you.

Melinda, blinded by the lightbulb that just went off over her head.

Re: Cecily

[celledhor.livejournal.com]

I have only read it once and that was in one sitting. As you've said, many of your implications become clear upon a second read. I just haven't gotten that far yet. Too much else to read (currently Shadowmarch).

Re: Cecily

[celledhor.livejournal.com]

In that case, I should re-read Shining Court as well. They were not read anywhere near in the same time so I probably miised many of the connections. Unfortunately (or is it Fortunately for you?), it's currently on loan. I may need a second set since they are frequently on loan. *g*

Character Question

[(Anonymous)]

Since you're being so obliging, here's a question for you. You've spoken earlier about needing lead time before you actually start writing, time to let the project percolate in your mind before you set pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard, whatever). But once you do start, are the characters fully-formed, or are there parts of their pasts (and thus their futures) which still come along to surprise you as you're writing? Take, for example, Meralonne, about whom there has been so much speculation among your readers. When he first appears in the Hunter series, did you just have in mind a mage with a certain personality, or was everything that has since been hinted at in later books all in place by then?

One reason I'm curious is that I was dumbfounded when I was reading Christopher Tolkien's books to find out that JRR had absolutely no idea who Strider was when the hobbits first encountered him at Bree. He'd gotten the hobbits there, and this unexpected character had cropped up and for some time thereafter his notes are peppered with comments like WHO IS STRIDER?!! Very amusing as well as surprising.

Cassandra

Hello . . .

[fortunes-whore.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to thank you for contributing your short stories to the books edited by Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers. While I haven't had the pleasure (or the time) to read one of your longer works yet I absolutely adore the short stories and just wanted to let you know. Please, don't ever stop writing *wry grin*.