Since I finished and sent Gospel According to Darren off to agents I've been feeling a bit up and down, the 2 least likely agents have already rejected it - I expect the third will shortly, and then I will just have to do a mass post out in the hope someone will like it. I feel a bit despairing... no reason really, just that I can't quite get up too much enthusiasm for it.
The Ash Grove is still with the 2 US agents, but in the meantime two or three others have rejected it. I am quite bored with this.
So, am I dashing ahead with Last Things? No. I am doing the odd desultory bit - but I am increasingly aware of two things (1) how dull I am becoming (2) how restricted my palette is... I began a little list of things I would like to be able to write about - and later in the day I had an idea... to write a book about............
FAIRIES! Arrrrrggggghhhhh. I suspect that this is being done by every half-witted fantasy writer - but I think I have an idea about it which could work - I mean to make it a book about belief, rationalism - understanding the irrational - and so on - as well as having a great deal of jeopardy...
The great thing is, it gives me the opportunity to research something - to have a structure with rules - the human-fairy relationship has to exist within certain bounds. It's enjoyable to read it all up - and just spending a couple of hours on Wikipedia jogged my memory and gave me the beginnings of a bibliography!
I would illustrate this article with a picture of a Ganconagh - a womanising male fairy - but all the web images for that were unbelievably icky... still, we'll see if I can manage romance and intellect all rolled into one ball... not too much of the romance though.
The Ash Grove is still with the 2 US agents, but in the meantime two or three others have rejected it. I am quite bored with this.
So, am I dashing ahead with Last Things? No. I am doing the odd desultory bit - but I am increasingly aware of two things (1) how dull I am becoming (2) how restricted my palette is... I began a little list of things I would like to be able to write about - and later in the day I had an idea... to write a book about............
FAIRIES! Arrrrrggggghhhhh. I suspect that this is being done by every half-witted fantasy writer - but I think I have an idea about it which could work - I mean to make it a book about belief, rationalism - understanding the irrational - and so on - as well as having a great deal of jeopardy...
The great thing is, it gives me the opportunity to research something - to have a structure with rules - the human-fairy relationship has to exist within certain bounds. It's enjoyable to read it all up - and just spending a couple of hours on Wikipedia jogged my memory and gave me the beginnings of a bibliography!
I would illustrate this article with a picture of a Ganconagh - a womanising male fairy - but all the web images for that were unbelievably icky... still, we'll see if I can manage romance and intellect all rolled into one ball... not too much of the romance though.
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