I thought I’d better update the blog lest anybody out there think I’ve been doing nothing but reading Incubus Dreams since the last entry. Incubus Dreams is certainly worth reading twice and thinking about, but I have actually been busy.
Writing news: cover art for Love and Rockets is getting underway. When I have it, I will post it. More writing news: Dangerous Games was accepted and will also have a 2005 release. I will get excerpts or at least blurbs on both up soon.
Dangerous Games was a very intense book to write, which makes me admire LKH even more. Both of her series are very intense, and I don’t know how she keeps doing it. I like to take a break with comedy. The intensity is gripping and powerful, but uncomfortable to do. Not unpleasant, but uncomfortable. Writing comedy is like a vacation. I have many more intense projects lined up but I think for the forseeable future I will continue to alternate them with lighter stories.
I’m developing a theory that pacing in writing life is like pacing in a book. When you write something intense and suspenseful, you have to give the reader a break and let them catch their breath periodically, and from the writer perspective you need to do the same for yourself. If not in the form of writing something different, in the form of doing other things to break up the mood and lighten up in life. Although with my daughter’s current loves, I might well begin to welcome the intensity as an escape from Elmo and Teletubbies.
So there’s my news and my theory of the day. Next time I’ll go into my theory on how writing a sex scene in a romance is like writing a gunfight in a western.
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