That possibility seems more than likely to me given how we read over and over again how she's had ideas for this character or that universe nibbling at her, even while she's writing something different, but it'd be counterintuitive (unfair, wrong, whatever her worlds usually are) to flesh them out, and get out of the head of the character voice she's supposed to be in, because then the book in progress wouldn't get out.
How long did it used to take her to get a book out before? 18 months? Versus 6? A long time frame makes it seem more than likely that she could flit from here to there and back again, and that by fleshing things out in one universe she could forget details of another and so come to it fresh. (Perhaps even fleshing out a scene that seems cool in one book, and then coming to the rest of the book fresh)
I am by no means saying her craft was spectacular to begin with, especially not knowing how much work was done on Guilty Pleasures. But the ideas of Guilty Pleasures were tingly and whee! And lately the ideas of most of her books are like thrice reused tea-bags in very tepid water.
What if half of her sending things out into the wild, or sometimes seeming to fling them out of the house, is that she's just plain fed up with having to deal with it constantly for several days to meet her deadlines? Hasn't she mentioned already hating to be working on one book when her mind's on another?
It could be seen that the mention in this flog of holding them on too long, is self delusional / self denying of there being a reason, perhaps, the books used to take longer and involve her writing group, etc... Easier to think she was nesting them, than she was honing them. Easier to think it's boredom than her set deadlines to keep her name out there forcing her to fling the books out without her taking the time to stop wanting to see their backs and letting them marinate (or fester) so she can edit them properly.
Suddenly to me at least the mentions of 'Battling The Dragon' and 'Why is it such a chore JOB!' make a kind of sense. As well as the very fact that her professional blog is so filled with complaints about how hard it is to writer intertwined with 'Oh, but the gentle, magical, miracle'.
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Re: What If.... (2)
Date: 2008-01-13 07:44 pm (UTC)How long did it used to take her to get a book out before? 18 months? Versus 6? A long time frame makes it seem more than likely that she could flit from here to there and back again, and that by fleshing things out in one universe she could forget details of another and so come to it fresh. (Perhaps even fleshing out a scene that seems cool in one book, and then coming to the rest of the book fresh)
I am by no means saying her craft was spectacular to begin with, especially not knowing how much work was done on Guilty Pleasures. But the ideas of Guilty Pleasures were tingly and whee! And lately the ideas of most of her books are like thrice reused tea-bags in very tepid water.
What if half of her sending things out into the wild, or sometimes seeming to fling them out of the house, is that she's just plain fed up with having to deal with it constantly for several days to meet her deadlines? Hasn't she mentioned already hating to be working on one book when her mind's on another?
It could be seen that the mention in this flog of holding them on too long, is self delusional / self denying of there being a reason, perhaps, the books used to take longer and involve her writing group, etc... Easier to think she was nesting them, than she was honing them. Easier to think it's boredom than her set deadlines to keep her name out there forcing her to fling the books out without her taking the time to stop wanting to see their backs and letting them marinate (or fester) so she can edit them properly.
Suddenly to me at least the mentions of 'Battling The Dragon' and 'Why is it such a
choreJOB!' make a kind of sense. As well as the very fact that her professional blog is so filled with complaints about how hard it is to writer intertwined with 'Oh, but the gentle, magical, miracle'.