thoughtfulIn honor of really weird dreams, I give you two stories I very much hope I get to tell.
1. I occasionally mention a book called Nativity of Chance. It's what I call my "Tim Powers book," because it's not the sort of book I usually write. It's about alchemy, and math, and language, and second chances, and siblings, and the families we find as opposed to the families we're given. It's about a girl named Dodger who loves numbers like she loves nothing else, and a boy named Roger who loves words like he loves nothing else, and the way they love each other. It's about Oz. It's about finding a place in a universe that loves you like a broken heart loves a last goodbye. I want to write it so bad, and I have to write at least five more books, first, because I'm just not good enough yet. But I can finally see good enough on a clear day, and that's very, very new.
2. The tenth InCryptid book is called Spelunking Through Hell: A Visitor's Guide to the Underworld. It's the story of Alice Price-Healy and Thomas Price and why true love is bad for you, and all the books before it are necessary, in part, to put the pieces in position for this last big story. I desperately want the series to do well enough to let me get this far, to let me show you what it looks like in the forests of my heart. I am good enough to tell this story. I just have to show my math if I want you to love it the way that I do.
February 28 2011, 05:46:17 UTC 6 years ago
*deep breath*
I just had to share that with someone other than my sister, lol.
And i find the fact that you think you need to write five more books before you're good enough to write Nativity of Chance fascinating. Have you tried and that's how you know you're not at that level yet or is it just the whole idea is so large that you don't want to touch it and mess it up before you're ready?
February 28 2011, 16:06:16 UTC 6 years ago