...I hate you, Jane.
I'm still getting accustomed to this whole 'having a day job' thing again, and that means that I'm not getting much (or really, any) writing done. I've managed to finish a chapter of The Brightest Fell, outline a big chunk of Tuesday's Child, and unsnarl a few little bits and bobs of Spirit of the City, but that's about it. Lady of the Underground is languishing badly, which may well cause my proofreaders to rise up in an irritated wave and strike me down.
(I've also finished several episodes of Electric Knights, but that's writing of a different sort, in a different format, and doesn't require nearly so much brain power as working on the books does.)
All of this combines to mean 'I do not need Jane reminding me of one of the series that's been languishing in the filing cabinets at the back of the office of my mind'. I just don't have the focus to be working on something new. But no, here she comes again, with Kathleen Ashton, first-ever dropout in the Ash-thorn family of fairy godparents. She doesn't want to be a fairy godmother, gradually slip further and further from the human norm, and eventually be forced to retreat to the Hinter with the rest of her family. She wants to be...
A lawyer.
Why do I get these people in my head?! Kathleen comes complete with a four-book series:
I Wish I May
I Wish I Might
Have the Wish
I Wish Tonight
This is almost unbearably twee. This is also, I fear, my first foray into the world of the supernatural romance. Somebody shoot me while there's still time?
Something I do find interesting, however: the inhuman who wishes to be, or at least pass for, human is a fairly common trope in my stories. And then you turn around and you have Vicky, forced to be human when she wants nothing more than to be a city, or Winnie Tucker, who sold a great deal of her essential humanity and never looked back. So the opposing trope, 'the human that wishes to be something else', is also fairly strong in my writing. Maybe I should just sum it up as 'everything changes' and move on.
I remain annoyed with Jane.
(I've also finished several episodes of Electric Knights, but that's writing of a different sort, in a different format, and doesn't require nearly so much brain power as working on the books does.)
All of this combines to mean 'I do not need Jane reminding me of one of the series that's been languishing in the filing cabinets at the back of the office of my mind'. I just don't have the focus to be working on something new. But no, here she comes again, with Kathleen Ashton, first-ever dropout in the Ash-thorn family of fairy godparents. She doesn't want to be a fairy godmother, gradually slip further and further from the human norm, and eventually be forced to retreat to the Hinter with the rest of her family. She wants to be...
A lawyer.
Why do I get these people in my head?! Kathleen comes complete with a four-book series:
I Wish I May
I Wish I Might
Have the Wish
I Wish Tonight
This is almost unbearably twee. This is also, I fear, my first foray into the world of the supernatural romance. Somebody shoot me while there's still time?
Something I do find interesting, however: the inhuman who wishes to be, or at least pass for, human is a fairly common trope in my stories. And then you turn around and you have Vicky, forced to be human when she wants nothing more than to be a city, or Winnie Tucker, who sold a great deal of her essential humanity and never looked back. So the opposing trope, 'the human that wishes to be something else', is also fairly strong in my writing. Maybe I should just sum it up as 'everything changes' and move on.
I remain annoyed with Jane.