Cleverly, I have found an occupation that feels just like grad school only without the part where I ever have to leave the house.
Exactly that. When I was writing my first fantasy, it took me a while to work out why I felt seventeen again; but when I was seventeen, I was spending my mornings in the school library and the rest of my day hammering a typewriter. Now I was thirty-seven, and spending my mornings in this lovely Georgian library we have here, and the rest of my day hammering a keyboard, and...
And rigour is, surely, the key to all good writing? From haiku to high fantasy, it's always about discipline, control, respect. I think Heyer was as rigorous within her genre as you are in yours; from conception to execution, those books are almost immaculate. Even if they do conform to the expectations of the genre, she does none the less find ways to do that while still, as you say, thinking things through.
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Date: 2006-06-29 06:57 pm (UTC)Exactly that. When I was writing my first fantasy, it took me a while to work out why I felt seventeen again; but when I was seventeen, I was spending my mornings in the school library and the rest of my day hammering a typewriter. Now I was thirty-seven, and spending my mornings in this lovely Georgian library we have here, and the rest of my day hammering a keyboard, and...
And rigour is, surely, the key to all good writing? From haiku to high fantasy, it's always about discipline, control, respect. I think Heyer was as rigorous within her genre as you are in yours; from conception to execution, those books are almost immaculate. Even if they do conform to the expectations of the genre, she does none the less find ways to do that while still, as you say, thinking things through.