Still drowning in The Busy but I will have Tremendous Secret News the Third to share with you all this Thursday. Yay!
In my approximately 7 seconds of free time today, I followed one of the many “H.I.M.”-related Google alerts I get regarding Under the Rose, and thus spotted this series of plotting posts by fantasy romance author Joely Sue Burkhart:
I haven’t read her Keldari books, but the posts got me vastly intrigued. Reminds me a bit of Dune and also of C.L. Wilson’s Tairen Soul series, both of which I love. I’m a little in awe as well, since Burkhart’s books are apparently novellas. How does she get all this worldbuilding into a novella? ::Looks at >100k fantasy novel heading to typesetting as we speak::
It’s fascinating hearing about another author’s process, especially when you see in it echoes of your own. For instance, reading this, I was far more fascinated of the story she crafted for the heroine of her piece than for the hero, though the original inspiration talked more about the hero and didn’t even know who the heroine was. So often, you only get to see the end products of an author’s story and the creation bits, those wiggly, nagging bits of “raw data,” as Burkhart calls them, are lost to time. People are always asking me where I get my ideas. There are certain bits I remember — I remember coming up with the name “Rose & Grave” or remember when Amy let on she was afraid of water — but so many others that I don’t. By now, they just are — fact, once and future. I don’t always know where I got my ideas. Did I ever consider another name than Bugaboo? Where did I come up with Clarissa and Jenny? And Poe? Him I remember least, because he wasn’t supposed to be a significant character. Shadow #2. That was him.
Interesting read…
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