Facebook flog - Jan 16 2013

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Link: Jan 16 2013, 14:15
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

Great day of writing! A chapter finished, a new chapter started, and I'm so in the zone that I'm back at it. I think I'll be able to slam dunk this newest chapter before bed tonight. You'd think I'd remember that often just before the dam breaks and the book begins to slide inevitably towards home, I have a day, or even two, that bog down. No idea why it happens, but it happens pretty consistently. It's almost as if my imagination has to go away and think for a couple of days, or maybe my muse needs a weekend off before she comes back and hits me between the eyes with the hammer of inspiration. *laughs* If my muse would only tell me she needed two days off, before we rode the book to 'The End', then I could take the days off, too, and we'd both get a lovely long weekend, but Muses are mysterious things and they keep some secrets, always.

By the way, when I say we are riding to the end I don't mean soon. I mean like maybe two hundred pages out, maybe a a hundred and fifty, maybe seventy-five. Or maybe three hundred, though if it's the latter don't tell me, or my Muse, because one of us will cry.

Comments

[ex-naomi-ja.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I actually went and looked for this, but:

That's the spirit! “@antonstrout: Muses are for suckers... I have a deadline #amwriting” <- LKH to Anton Strout back in December. So other writers can't wait around for their muses, and Laurell can tell them so, but Laurell's muse needs constant cosseting. What.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

I'm still weirded out by the constant externalisation of her woes. It's the muse that needs a couple of days to refresh, rather than the author sitting there, "well I'm stuck, I need some downtime to figure out the next part." There's nothing wrong with admitting this.

[ex-naomi-ja.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Why is there always the need to act like her writing ability descends from on high and then leaves. She's not speaking in tongues, ffs.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

IDK, but it's hard to swallow the whole schtick about her incredible work ethic and treating writing exactly like a job when she talks about ~~the muse being so fickle.

[ex-naomi-ja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she can't have it both ways. Either her work ethic is amazing and unfailing or she only writes when the muse deigns to visit. One sort of excludes the other.

[collectively.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I've seen whole passages of dialogue that make so little sense she might as well be speaking in tongues.

[ex-naomi-ja.livejournal.com]

Ha! Fair point.

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

+1.

[shadwing.livejournal.com]

Knew it...she's getting pushed to get this book in ASAP. Her manuscripts are on average 900-1000 pages so with 150-300 left? That around 25% left to write?

[lady-fellshot.livejournal.com]

Maybe someone pointed out that if she didn't start getting those manuscripts in on time they would cite her for breach of contract. There's only so many diva-isms that one can put up with before it ceases to be profitable.

[rodentfanatic.livejournal.com]

It's good that she's writing again and having an easier time. I'm happy for her, even if I hate what she produces. But man oh man do I hate the way she talks about The Muse.

[cheeky-duckie.livejournal.com]

A+

I get what she's talking about here -- for me, its usually just a need to stay off the computer for 24 hours, because I'm on the damn thing for work and eventually the very sight of an LCD screen makes me want to weep and rage.

But I suppose it would be cooler it ~*the muse*~ inspired those writing moods.

(Also, halfway through this comment I decided that LKH's muse & Ana Steele's inner goddess can be homegirls; those fictional manifestations of human moods gotta stick together.)

[a-sporking-rat.livejournal.com]

hahahah!

[rodentfanatic.livejournal.com]

See, I would have said Thalia.