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Jul. 8th, 2007 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
megwritesI guess I'll have to be a professional author before I understand all this, but apparently JK Rowling sobbed after writing the last words in Harry Potter.
Uh, I've never cried over any of my writing before. I've felt a sense of exhaustion, and after my last novel, I did sort of miss having something very definite to do every single day with those characters. But I didn't cry.
Although, I should've had champagne. I just had some cookies.
This is now the second time that something a very successful pro author has done strikes me at a right angle. Laurell K. Hamilton also has reactions to her characters that I scratched my head at.
It worries me. Does this mean that I'm still at some stage in my writing development that's so protozoic and stunted that anything I write is hopeless?
Blargh. That's exactly the kind of thing you don't want to think with THREE CHAPTERS TO GO on your novel. Seriously. My head gets explosion prone when I start thinking like that. Okay. Less thinking, more writing (bwuh?). Or, less thinking about anything that is not my novel.
ETA: I forgot to explain what prompted this entire entry.
So, I changed my layout here, and as I was doing so my fiancee saw me doing the header and said, in reaction to the motto ("the artist is not afraid"): "That's not true, they're very afraid. Their novels are coming to life and eating them alive."
Which might be the most accurate quote about the writing life I've ever heard.
But it made me think of having read about JK Rowling crying over the last HP book.
Uh, I've never cried over any of my writing before. I've felt a sense of exhaustion, and after my last novel, I did sort of miss having something very definite to do every single day with those characters. But I didn't cry.
Although, I should've had champagne. I just had some cookies.
This is now the second time that something a very successful pro author has done strikes me at a right angle. Laurell K. Hamilton also has reactions to her characters that I scratched my head at.
It worries me. Does this mean that I'm still at some stage in my writing development that's so protozoic and stunted that anything I write is hopeless?
Blargh. That's exactly the kind of thing you don't want to think with THREE CHAPTERS TO GO on your novel. Seriously. My head gets explosion prone when I start thinking like that. Okay. Less thinking, more writing (bwuh?). Or, less thinking about anything that is not my novel.
ETA: I forgot to explain what prompted this entire entry.
So, I changed my layout here, and as I was doing so my fiancee saw me doing the header and said, in reaction to the motto ("the artist is not afraid"): "That's not true, they're very afraid. Their novels are coming to life and eating them alive."
Which might be the most accurate quote about the writing life I've ever heard.
But it made me think of having read about JK Rowling crying over the last HP book.
