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lkh_lashoutsAnyone who's been keeping up with LKH's blog knows that Danse Macabre is setting up to be a long one.
A really, really long one.
LKH in italics
The book is kicking my butt. Over nine hundred pages and the end is only a misty image on a horizon that no longer seems to get any closer.
... ye gods and little fishes. What is this, War and Peace?
Seriously, what is this attitude of "It just keeps growing! I can't stop it!"? Does she even have an editor anymore? Or are they ded from pr0n?
I can't emphasize how deeply two things distress me: 1) an author's reluctance to cut scenes from their manuscript, as if it were Holy Writ, and 2) the implication (which is pretty strong, here, I feel) that said Writ will go straight from the author's desk to the publishing house, with maybe a brief stop at a proofreader's in between.
I know it's a moot point with Hamilton -- she seems to believe that everything she writes is pertinent to the series, monotonously scripted sex scenes and all. But it doesn't keep my head and my desk from reuniting. Often.
I'd planned on writing about how Jon and I celebrated our anniversary. I'd planned on talking about character creation since I'm being forced to come up with new characters, because my stable of regulars is empty.
...she what?
She did WHAT?
More original characters? (If I were a braver woman, I'd do a running tally of the new, useless characters she's created since... oh, Micah. But that would require me to actually read Incubus Dreams.)
And what the hell does that mean, her "stable" (and damn her for using her that word, it gave me the happy mental image of the old, badass Jean-Claude riding Jason around like a pony, complete with bridle and crop, and thus I weep for What Might Have Been) of regulars is "empty?" She couldn't have killed them off, we know she hates that. Are they busy fucking other people possessed by mystical lust? (I hope so, for their sakes.) For behold, I am full of whatthefuck.
This book has fuckin' drained me.
Lady, reading ABOUT your last book drained ME.
I'd planned on doing a lot of things, but if I don't make actual pages on the current book none of the rest matters, so I'm back to work. Charlie Brown Christmas on the player, and away we go.
... not going to touch that one. Not.
*will now always hear the Charlie Brown kids singing about the baby Jesus whenever she reads about another spine-twisting, "rainmaking" orgasm, and is doomed to insanity*
A really, really long one.
LKH in italics
The book is kicking my butt. Over nine hundred pages and the end is only a misty image on a horizon that no longer seems to get any closer.
... ye gods and little fishes. What is this, War and Peace?
Seriously, what is this attitude of "It just keeps growing! I can't stop it!"? Does she even have an editor anymore? Or are they ded from pr0n?
I can't emphasize how deeply two things distress me: 1) an author's reluctance to cut scenes from their manuscript, as if it were Holy Writ, and 2) the implication (which is pretty strong, here, I feel) that said Writ will go straight from the author's desk to the publishing house, with maybe a brief stop at a proofreader's in between.
I know it's a moot point with Hamilton -- she seems to believe that everything she writes is pertinent to the series, monotonously scripted sex scenes and all. But it doesn't keep my head and my desk from reuniting. Often.
I'd planned on writing about how Jon and I celebrated our anniversary. I'd planned on talking about character creation since I'm being forced to come up with new characters, because my stable of regulars is empty.
...she what?
She did WHAT?
More original characters? (If I were a braver woman, I'd do a running tally of the new, useless characters she's created since... oh, Micah. But that would require me to actually read Incubus Dreams.)
And what the hell does that mean, her "stable" (and damn her for using her that word, it gave me the happy mental image of the old, badass Jean-Claude riding Jason around like a pony, complete with bridle and crop, and thus I weep for What Might Have Been) of regulars is "empty?" She couldn't have killed them off, we know she hates that. Are they busy fucking other people possessed by mystical lust? (I hope so, for their sakes.) For behold, I am full of whatthefuck.
This book has fuckin' drained me.
Lady, reading ABOUT your last book drained ME.
I'd planned on doing a lot of things, but if I don't make actual pages on the current book none of the rest matters, so I'm back to work. Charlie Brown Christmas on the player, and away we go.
... not going to touch that one. Not.
*will now always hear the Charlie Brown kids singing about the baby Jesus whenever she reads about another spine-twisting, "rainmaking" orgasm, and is doomed to insanity*
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Date: 2005-10-03 09:42 pm (UTC)or knowing LKH he will just end up in the stable..next too the dead guy who paid a crap load of money to get 3 lines in a book.
mags
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Date: 2005-10-04 03:47 am (UTC)so all that's left is getting Sapphic with Meng Die, or her channelling Belle Morte and "accidently" triggering the orgy of all orgies... to bad Christmas carols.
Happy holidays, ya'll!
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Date: 2005-10-04 02:35 pm (UTC)That's probably how the series will end, you know -- the Mother of All Orgies somehow incinerating the Mother of Darkness. I'll bet money.
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Date: 2005-10-05 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-04 02:34 pm (UTC)Hee! Apparently there's a really good 'fic out there along those lines. I need to find it again...
or knowing LKH he will just end up in the stable..next too the dead guy who paid a crap load of money to get 3 lines in a book.
Lord, that poor woman. 7000 bucks and you're named after a corpse. Pah.
If LKH puts Edward in the 'stable,' I will take drastic action. This I swear.
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Date: 2005-10-03 09:50 pm (UTC)My bet is that it means, that they are all already in two or three sex-parts
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Date: 2005-10-04 02:36 pm (UTC)Hope keeps me alive.
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Date: 2005-10-03 09:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-03 10:12 pm (UTC)I must use that! Somewhere. Somehow. *plots*
Other then that... Amen. Especially on the count of A NEW CHARACTER?!
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Date: 2005-10-03 11:51 pm (UTC)You beat me to commenting on it. BEST LINE EVAH!~
Hell, that is metaquotable...They DO let you say bad words over there, right? LOL...
-Dira-
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Date: 2005-10-04 02:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-04 02:42 pm (UTC)Not character. CharacterS. Requiem and Wicked and Truth will have company. What shall the new ones be named? I'm guessing something really original and creative, like, oh, Rayven.
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Date: 2005-10-04 06:44 pm (UTC)Come on, you have to admit, that'd be more creative than *shudder* Requiem.
There will have to be a Raven in the next book. There's a *shudder* "Requiem," and a "Damian" and *shudder* "Wicked" and "Truth"...
Though I'm actually getting confused. The Wicked Truth people are in Anita Blake? I thought there were two supernaturally linked porno-riffic guys with matching names in Merry Gentry? Is it both? Who are the MG ones? Holly & Ivy? Ash & Thorn? Hall & Oates?
LKH makes my head hurt.
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Date: 2005-10-04 08:11 pm (UTC)As for the MG people? No idea. I never got the names of the regulars down. It was always: "Who's she having sex with, right now? Oh, the green one. With the blue one watching."
And I roll my eyes so hard I strain them.
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Date: 2005-10-04 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-15 08:35 pm (UTC)Stop, didn't she once say, that in her new book (or what ever she calls it now) there will be an old legal vampire community in Great Britain (YAABI!!) and the boss of London (?) is called Dracula because of PR tricks? If that goes, than every name is possible. Even Darth Vader (evil Necromancer with a pink tutu) or Cinderella (police officer with issues against emancipated women with more than 8 boyfriends).
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Date: 2005-10-04 07:15 pm (UTC)I haven't read the newest book (ID, right?) and put it outta my head totally so...
You CAN'T be serious. Please?
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Date: 2005-10-04 08:16 pm (UTC)I haven't read ID either -- but
Warning: don't read those while eating or drinking. Or just after you've eaten.
Actually, I'd recommend at least two shots of tequila before getting any closer.
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Date: 2005-10-03 10:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-05 05:58 am (UTC)*blink*
*blinkblink*
Over...nine...hundred...pages?
Dear sweet stapled Jesus, that's not a book, it's a brick. In hardcover form, that thing's going to be at least 5 lbs. You could easily bludgeon someone to death with it.
And didn't she explain that Edward won't be in the book because, at 500 pages, it was too late to add him to the plot, unless the book was a thousand pages long? *twitch*
And...new characters? *TWITCHITY*
Now, I understand character creation is fun. Lord knows it's half the reason my halfhearted attempts at novels exist. Whee, shiny new imaginary people! But, you know, when you already have several dozen shiny new imaginary people, half of whom are sexing up your main character on a regular basis...your cast is quite full already, thanks. If anything I think fandom as a whole would prefer she kill off several preexisting characters even without adding new ones.
(Of course, maybe she is doing that. Maybe she's killed off a few of the lesser characters like, say, Meng Die or Gregory. Maybe it'll be a decent book. Maybe every copy of Danse Macabre will come with a hand-written apology for the previous three books, and a crisp new $100 bill. I'm not holding my breath any time soon, though.)
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Date: 2005-10-06 12:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-06 06:23 am (UTC)