In Case of Emergency

[rj_anderson]

After giving myself a month off after finishing the revisions of Knife (well, not counting the crash-and-burn I did at the end of February when I was trying to work on Touching Indigo and my brain was having none of it), I resolved to start in on Wayfarer again, and try to reestablish the habit of writing 2-3 hours a day, every day.

The first session today went... not so well. In fact, it was positively depressing. After a while I gave up and tried to read one of the books my editor sent me, but I just wasn't feeling the love. So I turned to one of my favorite comfort reads, Patricia McKillip's The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, and it felt like relaxing into a warm mental bath. Even my tortured inner line-editor shut up after the first few pages.

What are your favorite comfort reads?

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Comfort books.

[lurkerm1e.livejournal.com]

Let's start with the 'Little Prince', then on to C.S. Forester, then Narnia and on to Nancy Shaw's 'Sheep in a Shop'. For some reason these toddler age stories with sheep who follow all the toddler rules amuse me enormously. The art is simple, but the sheep are always up to something in the background. Often they can be found knitting. I also love Sendak and 'Where the Wild Things Are'. I always wanted to be Max.

When ill, I tend to revert to childhood.

lurker