Things I can’t wait for.
The Frog Prince. I love Disney movies. And isn’t it about damn time?
To take my father-in-law back to the airport.
For my daughter to start kindergarten (a year and a half away, *sob*) so I have more writing time during the day, so that when an idea I’ve been playing with about a steampunky-romance finally coalesces, and I end up with ten pages of notes and a fully realized image of the world it’s in (urgh, instead of ten pages on the WIP as I should have done yesterday), I don’t have to stick them somewhere and wait until I can produce at least another book per year (oh yeah, and have good sales) before I can think of proposing something like that.
Aside: Speaking of production, spyscribbler has a post on prolific writing, and how it doesn’t have to mean a lack of quality. Great questions at the end, too. I’m one of those writers who edits as she goes along, so I don’t have a ton of things to revise at the line level (I tried to do Fast Drafting, which meant I turned off my inner editor … and failed miserably.) Right now, the primary hindrance to my production is just time — and a three-year-old. I’m not unhappy with my production at this stage, because 2 books + novella a year isn’t bad — but I also wish I was producing another book per year.
Buffy, Season 8. Out this week.
Um, “2 books + novella a year isn’t bad,”
I’d say it’s pretty bloody fantastic. Give yourself some credit, wonderwoman. And steampunk romance? Sign me up, please–that sounds amazing. I just read Snowcrash for the umpteenth time, it’s one of the books I had to bring with me to China…
I love Snowcrash — actually, give me anything of his and I’m right there. Diamond Age? *swoon*
I think it’s just that freaky, “oh man if I don’t get the name out there at the beginning of my career and then quickly build up a backlist, I’m fucked” feeling that comes up every once and a while. And the, “should I be putting my eggs in one basket?” worry. Not one publisher, that doesn’t bother me … but one specialized subgenre. Like, if the Guardians series flops and Berkley doesn’t pick up another contract, having something to fall back on.
That, and the sense that I *could* be doing more, so feeling like maybe I *should* be.