one last Q&A (Q&A 33)
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truepennyQ: What is your next project?
A: Well, I'm (allegedly) working on A Reckoning of Men, which is the sequel to A Companion to Wolves that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala and I are writing. I'm also (allegedly) working on an episode of Shadow Unit. The next novel--assuming somebody ever buys it--on which I continue to be stuck like Pooh in Rabbit's doorway, is The Emperor of the Elflands/The Winter Emperor/The Goblin Emperor (I'm also having trouble with the title), and I need to look very carefully at Cormorant Child and see if perhaps it would be willing to be a YA book. And then there's the usual milling crowd of story ideas.
Q: Toward the end of The Mirador, it is Mildmays point of view and they are arresting Felix and you wrote:
Felix went down.
I went batfuck insane.
1) Was it because of the Binding-by forms, because he cared so much for Felix or a combination of the two.
2) I am not a writer, so this may be something writers might know, but I was wondering why you used periods instead of exclamation marks. I did notice that making each sentence it's own line really made it stand out more.
A: 1. It's the binding-by-forms.
2. I avoid exclamation points wherever possible, especially outside of dialogue. I find them incredibly obtrusive and an embarrassingly clumsy way of trying to manipulate the reader.
We seem (after nine pages) to have come to the natural end of this round of Q&A. Thank you very very much to everyone who asked questions. You are all awesome.
A: Well, I'm (allegedly) working on A Reckoning of Men, which is the sequel to A Companion to Wolves that
matociquala and I are writing. I'm also (allegedly) working on an episode of Shadow Unit. The next novel--assuming somebody ever buys it--on which I continue to be stuck like Pooh in Rabbit's doorway, is The Emperor of the Elflands/The Winter Emperor/The Goblin Emperor (I'm also having trouble with the title), and I need to look very carefully at Cormorant Child and see if perhaps it would be willing to be a YA book. And then there's the usual milling crowd of story ideas.Q: Toward the end of The Mirador, it is Mildmays point of view and they are arresting Felix and you wrote:
Felix went down.
I went batfuck insane.
1) Was it because of the Binding-by forms, because he cared so much for Felix or a combination of the two.
2) I am not a writer, so this may be something writers might know, but I was wondering why you used periods instead of exclamation marks. I did notice that making each sentence it's own line really made it stand out more.
A: 1. It's the binding-by-forms.
2. I avoid exclamation points wherever possible, especially outside of dialogue. I find them incredibly obtrusive and an embarrassingly clumsy way of trying to manipulate the reader.
We seem (after nine pages) to have come to the natural end of this round of Q&A. Thank you very very much to everyone who asked questions. You are all awesome.
