Something missing and Writing Meme Q
May. 27th, 2010 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
che_gilsonSo I've been working on another novel simutaniously with the R.F.N (which is now just over 700 hand written pages and an inch and a half thick!!!!) And the new novel is another fantasy of course but it's a lttile more what would be considered urban fantasy (Or small town fantasy??) I don't know... It's a book about a town and the three witchs who move in and open a teashop. I like to think of it as my own spin on things like Northern Exposure and Monarch of the Glen. It's very character driven and nothing too terrible really happens. And I've told to go read The Mitford books as research so it's off to the library I go. But It got me thinking that urban fantasy has been taken over by gun toting vampire/fairy/demon/hot chicks who solve mysteries. How did this happen? How did everything come to revolve around violence, guns, secret societies and made up policing forces for mystical beasties? What happened to fun? What happened to whimsy and gentleness?
Who knows if there is even a market for that? It seems like in fantsay unless the shit is constantly hitting the fan and apocalypses pending no one is interested. So I wonder as always, what will I DO with this book whaen it's finished? It's actually going really well too! I'm almost at 100 hand written pages which is about 1/3 to my goal of 350 ish (maybe 400 to be sure I hit a decent word count) pages. Which wilol get me to about 50,000 words.
17. Favorite protagonist and why!
Right now, still Ambriel- intrepid 17 year old heroine of the RFN. She is contrary, whiny, intelligent, lazy, and questioning. I like her a lot. She reads a lot, mostly non-fiction and while she starts the story dressing like a school marm a shopping trip in the big city improves her wardrobe immensely :) She's opinionated and secretly rather snarky.
And today I found out that my favorite city is hosting the 2011 World Fantasy con! That right- San Diego :) So that means I can go to it again! And fingers crossed, maybe Tea Times Three will be published by then! I have no idea how this will happen but first things first, finish the book!!
Anyway- I'll totally be at WFC in 2011. I might stay at the hotel too if I can afford it instead of making my poor SD friends drive me to it everday, especially if they aren't going. But I'm already excited! I can go and could be published by them! I mean wow- how is that for optimism?
Who knows if there is even a market for that? It seems like in fantsay unless the shit is constantly hitting the fan and apocalypses pending no one is interested. So I wonder as always, what will I DO with this book whaen it's finished? It's actually going really well too! I'm almost at 100 hand written pages which is about 1/3 to my goal of 350 ish (maybe 400 to be sure I hit a decent word count) pages. Which wilol get me to about 50,000 words.
17. Favorite protagonist and why!
Right now, still Ambriel- intrepid 17 year old heroine of the RFN. She is contrary, whiny, intelligent, lazy, and questioning. I like her a lot. She reads a lot, mostly non-fiction and while she starts the story dressing like a school marm a shopping trip in the big city improves her wardrobe immensely :) She's opinionated and secretly rather snarky.
And today I found out that my favorite city is hosting the 2011 World Fantasy con! That right- San Diego :) So that means I can go to it again! And fingers crossed, maybe Tea Times Three will be published by then! I have no idea how this will happen but first things first, finish the book!!
Anyway- I'll totally be at WFC in 2011. I might stay at the hotel too if I can afford it instead of making my poor SD friends drive me to it everday, especially if they aren't going. But I'm already excited! I can go and could be published by them! I mean wow- how is that for optimism?
