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Can't post to LASHOUTS without logging into livejournal using my soon to be expired account. So I'll do my thoughts on my own damn blog. Whoop me.
So from here (and yes my mind was that blah that I thought it'd perk me up to read some LKH rambling. Look, some people read tabloids, I do this.)
Though, I was surprised by the book that stepped up. I was all set to do Book A, when Book B tapped me on the shoulder. I thought, well, I haven't really started I'll try Book B for a few pages. I was having trouble getting Book A's first chapter anyway. Well, a couple of hours later I had ten pages of Book B. When I sat down last night for a just a few notes, I ended up with seven more pages. This book is ready to go, chomping at the bit, actually. Good, except for that whole need to write Merry next. SWALLOWING DARKNESS is also chomping at the bit, or was before I had to leave it to finish up BLOOD NOIR. I'm not sure my muse and I much care which series we work on, as long as we get to do some first draft, and don't have to get trapped in edits.
There's a couple of things here. One of them is how many snarks and jokes is the world going to get out of 'Swallowing Darkness'? Someone start a betting pool. The second thing is more of a mental ping for me. this Mery Book - Anita Book - Merry Book - Anita Book pattern that's been established - why was it established?
Who set the deadlines and the release dates? Some writers take a whole year to get a book out. LKH has a new one coming out every 6 months. But... if at the end of one book, she's so in the zone she could easily write another book in the same universe, then why doesn't she? A book every half year is still a book every half year - isn't it?
And if she so loathes edits, and likes getting a story down - then wouldn't it make more sense to keep writing in the universe currently inspiring her and when that cools - go back and edit something or start the first chapter in the other universe?
I guess I don't get why if she's feeling Anita flow, she doesn't go with it.
Other writers dont' do this to themselves, do they?