This, that, and the other. (WIth Q&A 21.)

[truepenny]

I need to write a Storytellers Unplugged post today, and I cannot for the life of me think of a topic. Anyone who wants to offer one will be hailed as a Hero of the Revolution. Anyone whose idea I actually use gets a statue in their honor in the Square of the Glorious Dawn.

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Many thanks to sasha_feather and jesse_the_k and the two other people whose LJ names I don't know for coming to the Q&A yesterday. I appreciate an audience. *g*

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I am told that I have four stories listed in the Honorable Mentions of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XXI: "The Bone Key," "Listening to Bone," "Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home," and "Under the Beansidhe's Pillow." Two of those are Artist's Challenge pieces (thank you, elisem!). The other two are from The Bone Key, and since "Drowning Palmer" actually made the cut for YBFHXX, I guess I can feel pretty good about that collection of stories.

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I am Eeyore today. With possibility of emo. I find this very tiresome.

Also? I do not need to dream about being exasperated with people. In the unlikely event that I have an exasperation deficiency . . . well, that's what Al Gore invented the Internet for.

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Q: is Stephen able to do anything about Hallam?

A: I don't know. I hope so.

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The poll winner seems to be The Emperor of the Elflands. Which, by a happy coincidence, is--of the three--the closest to being finished. So I guess I'd better get to work on that GAPING PLOT HOLE. Tra la la lally.

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ETA: cristalia has saved my bacon this month. However, since I'll have to do this again next month (and the month after that and so on and so forth), please feel free to offer more suggestions for things you'd like to see me write about.

ETA 2: and blogged

Comments

[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

Archiving from the author's point of view?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I can't get a whole post out of that. Because it's just, "OMG, she wants all this CRAP? Teh awesome!!!!11!1!!!!"

*g*

[rarelylynne.livejournal.com]

Hey, now, I treasure EVERYTHING that you have given our library. Much of it is currently on display.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Which is completely awesome. But doesn't change my gut-level reaction to being able to get it out of my house.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Choosing one's next project? And what factors go into that?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Your statue in the Square of the Glorious Dawn is magnificent. There may be babies named in your honor. Thank you!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Woo! :)

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this is concrete enough for a whole post or if you may have already done something similar, but--one of the things that I simultaneously admire greatly and envy the crap out of is your facility with evoking atmosphere. Do you have a specific spot in the drafting process when you do that--like a late draft thing--or is the tone/mood/atmosphere of the place your characters are (mentally and physically) something that is present for you from the time you start drafting? Is it word choice, or rhythm, or all of the above.

I don't know if that question even makes sense. But the mood and atmosphere of your settings and situations always seems so tangible and right for the story at that point--you evoke dread, or oppression, or chaos, longing, sadness, etc., so well and it's something I struggle with.

[sasha-feather.livejournal.com]

Well thank you so much for sitting and talking with us! It was fabulous and I learned so much. (The other two were mystickeeper and were_duck!) I particularly enjoyed your thoughts on fanfic, and protean vs. procrustean, and why traditionally literary criticism hasn't always gotten along with SF/F. Yay!!

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was me!

I had fun at the Q&A too, even though I didn't say much. Thank you for coming!

[sovay]

I am told that I have four stories listed in the Honorable Mentions of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XXI: "The Bone Key," "Listening to Bone," "Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home," and "Under the Beansidhe's Pillow."

Congratulations!