Here I am now, entertain me!

[rj_anderson]

I'm stuck home on a Sunday morning. I'm sick and I'm bored.

Ask me anything.

ETA: As my sick son watches Scooby Doo cartoons in the background -- did you know Shaggy's real first name is "Norville"? Like, I had no idea!

Comments

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I've actually finished the sequel to KNIFE and it's with my editor at the moment; I'm waiting for her to give me her revisions. So since November I've been working on the synaesthesia book, but it's been tough going -- I'm still not entirely sure why. Love the concept, love the characters, got a nice solid plot outline to work from... and yet getting the words down is like pulling teeth.

Which makes me feel really bad, because my agent is totally in love with the synaesthesia book and can't wait for me to finish it. And I'd love to see what he (and editors) think of it, too!

[olmue.livejournal.com]

Sending you lots of colorful synaesthesia vibes... Sounds like you're having a hard time getting back inside? You say you have an outline--would it work to pick a random spot later in the book and write a scene from there? Sometimes spitting out an emotional turning point of the book out of order, without looking at what I've already got on the page, can pull me back in.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think what I need most is to find a way to stop treating it like work and start having fun with it again. And since forcing myself to write in order doesn't seem to be working... jumping ahead may be the only way to shake my creativity loose. Thanks.

[olmue.livejournal.com]

Something Angie Frazier and I talked about once was also to take our characters on vacation to a place that was outside of our story. See what they did there. Give them a rest from the story. It doesn't go in the book, of course, but it gets the character talking again. Sometimes I write down author-character conversations as well; a sort of private e-mail discussion behind the public blog (er--do I have multiple personality issues? Don't ask... :)