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Monday, May 19, 2003So, to get the whine part over early, I have a beautiful swivel glider office chair. It even has an ottoman, and deep pockets on the sides, where I keep my calculator, dayplanner, etc. It's comfy. It reclines. It's also been acting funny the past few days, not swiveling right. So today, there's no one in the house to hear me cuss, so I flipped the chair over on the bed (not quite as easy as it sounds it's metal, and it's heavy) and realized, with a sinking heart, that my ultimate chair is broken. Bad, even to the point where a couple of bricks and a grin won't fix it. The whole thing sits on this huge round circle, and there are four brackets leading from it to the main base that the chair swivels on....and the brakets are breaking away fron the swivel. I've only had it a couple of months...I may have blogged the event. So now, I'm sitting on the ottoman, which is oddly tiring, after awhile. I can't lean back, I have to sit straight with no I was so spoiled. No more pockets, no more swiveling. Sniff. Anyway, in writing news (though we can argue that the loss of the chair is a detriment to my work) someone asked me why I write fantasy. Here's what I wish I said, proving once again that I am so much better talking through my fingers. Even if I can't miss spell things to the point of total unrecognizableness when I talk. I tried to write mysteries, a few years back. I also tried to write romances...I never thought writing romances was the easy road, but I always thought it was the more likely to get published one. It's the biggest industry, and most romance pubs still don't require agents. So I'd be happily writing, and my charcater would turn the corner...and there, plain as night, would be a vampire. Or a Dragon. Or I'd be like, oooh, wouldn't it be cool if? And then something fantastical, a spell of something, would appear. I am geared to the fantastical. I have a healthy respect for all the other genres to, so I mix them in....Andromeda's stories are detective stories with a strong fantasy influence. Dark fantasy...cause there are vampires and werewolves, but fantasy (not horror...I don't think I can write horror) nevertheless. Eh. I've got board bum from this glider. Maybe I'll go sit in the window and edit Balancing Act. Edit Balancing Act. Why yes. I've decided to make Pilgrims of the Night the first book of Andromeda's story, I may have said. My rush is related to the very good news I mentioned not wanting to share for fear I'll ruin things. Yep, I'm violating one of the rules of writing, by going back and editing pre-selling the book. Ah, well. Permalink Cindy scribed this at 4:02 PM 0 comments |