Facebook flog - Mar 3 2014

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Link: Mar 3 2014, 10:24
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

I promised myself when I finished the newest Merry Gentry novel, A Shiver of Light, that I'd let myself write anything I wanted to write next. I'd let my muse play. I just finished 6 pages of a new short piece, set in a brand new world. It surprised me by bridging to pages I wrote months ago, so my short story maybe a one shot novelette, but either way it was fun to throw myself off the creative cliff and build my parachute on the way down. (I think I'm paraphrasing Ray Bradbury.)

Don't worry, I'm not abandoning Anita Blake, but for today I just let myself go where the muse dictated. It was a rush to just let myself write and not care where it went, or what it was, or . . . to create for the joy of creating. Sometimes a writer needs to go for a walk off the beaten path, so we can come back to our beloved characters and worlds with a refreshed eye, and a new sense of wonder.

Comments

[bloodredroses1.livejournal.com]

The fact that she actually enjoyed writing something is beyond awesome but my brain still tried to explode when she used 'novelette' instead of 'novella'. Novelette isn't even a real word is it?

[rebootfromstart.livejournal.com]

It could be worse; she could still be using "novellite".

[bloodredroses1.livejournal.com]

I do kinda remember this & most likely that is what is causing my brain spasms.

[deadsong.livejournal.com]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/novelette

What's funny is more often than not it's a derogatory term for a novel without substance; it's gaining in popularity as a word for stories that are on the short end for a novella but on the long end for a short story, but originally it was an insult referring to a novel in a diminutive fashion.

[bloodredroses1.livejournal.com]

This is what I thought, that it was more of a slur once upon a time. Isn't is amazing how the English language changes over time?

[jamoche]

In the Hugo awards categories, it's a story with 7,500 - 17,500 words, between novella and short story.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

You posted this before I could.

[bloodredroses1.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that info. I guess I'm just so old that I missed the evolution of the word.