Wednesday, August 25, 2010
A Little Dose of Insanity
I realized recently that it takes a little dose of insanity to be a fantasy writer. (Okay, quick dash away from the computer to chastise my one year old for throwing a building block at my three year old's head.) I came to this realization one night last week when I was home alone and I randomly started brainstorming some ideas for book three (which has a tentative title TBA). I was pacing my living room talking to myself... and, I mean, not just talking, but having a full-blown back and forth conversation. So anyhow, I paused mid-stream and said to myself, "If anybody walked into the room right now, they would that I am totally nuts!" But that got me to thinking. I wonder how many other creative types have similarly borderline crazy habits? Is there a fine line between creativity and insanity? Perhaps. Perhaps... Anyhow, quick update: Notes for book three are coming along quite nicely. I've conceptualized a few important plot points and am excited at where the story is taking me. Revisions on The Oracle are moving. My two editors have finished their revisions, and I next have to combine their revisions with my revisions to push out a second draft. I am hoping to move the publication date up a couple weeks, but we'll see what happens!
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Are we going to get a sneak peak at the cover art?
ReplyDeleteI have character dialogue conversation with myself! My brother makes fun of me when he hears me talking to myself in my room. One time I did a conversation between five different characters all by myself... if that's not borderline crazy then I don't know what is. Well... that and I like to draw any tattoos that my characters have on myself, but that could just be because I like to see pretty colors on my own skin. :)
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