the writing thing

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So, dancambull asked me what I was writing about, and I figured I'd answer here in case the rest of you were interested. :) In short: it's a fantasy novel, probably aimed at a YA audience. (Which doesn't, for the record, mean that it has to be fluffy or 'soft' -- I just read The Hunger Games, which is a wonderful book and pretty well refutes that particular myth. But more about that in a later post.)

The slightly longer version is that it's basically a fantasy novel in which I throw together a whole bunch of elements that I think are cool. :D A werepigeon (well, shapeshifters in general, but in this case a werepigeon), an invented secondary world, an archipelago 'nation' of semi-independent citystates, steampunk-esque anachrotech (though not Victoriana), magic based on writing systems, colleges and libraries, cloak-and-dagger machinations, and language/linguistics. Plus female characters -- the aforementioned werepigeon scavenger, her engineer friend, a city militiawoman and a priestess-mage who get drawn into the conflict, and the antagonist. (There's also a romance subplot, because I'm a sucker for a good love story.)

I can't say a lot more -- my brain is such that if I talk too much about a story before I get a draft done, I'll feel like I've already written that and my mind will be bored and itching to get to the next thing. But once I get a draft done, I can say more. :)

Might also be helpful for me to start doing status updates, for self-encouragement purposes.

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can't say a lot more -- my brain is such that if I talk too much about a story before I get a draft done, I'll feel like I've already written that and my mind will be bored and itching to get to the next thing.

That's exactly how I feel. I don't know what to do in between entertaining my muse so she won't die before I've produced something and starving her so I can actually produce something before the idea dies of neglect. :(

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I tend to work on fifteen things at once, which does help with that for me. Obviously, mileage varies. :)