Writing Meme
1. Your genre(s)?
Dark urban fantasy, tending toward magical realism in my fiction and high fantasy in my RPG work. I've also done a fair amount of historical high fantasy as part of the Sorcerers Crusade line, while my current novel is a mythpunk fantasy.
2. How many books have you completed?
Gods - roughly 100 if you count my RPG work and anthologies. Sadly, not one of them is a novel, though over a dozen of them are novel-length and then some. I did some ghost-author work on two novels (the credited author still gets testy about my saying which ones, but it's okay), but have yet to complete a novel under my own name. Working on that part... (grrrrr...)
3. How many books are you working on now?
I just turned a in story for the Badder-a$$ Faeries anthology, am working on one for a Lovecraftian collection, have been bashing out a screenplay based on one of my books, and just resumed work on my on-again-off-again mythpunk novel.
4. Are you a linear or chunk writer?
For fiction, a linear one; for RPG world-building, a chunk writer. I don't outline my fiction (it seems to write itself), although I've adjusted that habit for my screenplay and consider doing so for my novel.
5. The POV you're most partial to?
First-person, definitely; second-person if it's RPG work.
6. The themes that keep cropping up in your books?
Sacred sensuality, struggles between primal and civilized elements, magic on the fringes of mundanity, and personal transformation and the responsibility that comes with it.
7. How many days a week do you write?
I wish I could truthfully say I work on my "real" writing (as opposed to Internet writing and correspondence) every day. When I'm on deadline or feeling deeply inspired, I do. More often, though, I write between one and five days a week, depending on what' else is going on in my life.
8. What time of day do you get your best writing done?
Morning, although I sometimes get a "midnight rush" that carries me deep into the night.
9. Who are your inspirations?
Stephen King inspired my love for "next-door weirdness"; Harlan Ellision fired up my love of ferocious wordplay and passionate sentiment; Francesca Lia Block showed me poetry, and Kurt Vonnegut showed me brevity. Alice Hoffman tickled my mind, Charles de Lint touched my heart, and George R.R. Martin taught me how to keep the plot cracking.
10. Who are your favorite authors to read? (different from mentors)
All of the above, plus Christopher Moore, Carrie Vaughn, Angela Carter, Carl Hiasen, Holly Black, and well... lots of people. :)
Dark urban fantasy, tending toward magical realism in my fiction and high fantasy in my RPG work. I've also done a fair amount of historical high fantasy as part of the Sorcerers Crusade line, while my current novel is a mythpunk fantasy.
2. How many books have you completed?
Gods - roughly 100 if you count my RPG work and anthologies. Sadly, not one of them is a novel, though over a dozen of them are novel-length and then some. I did some ghost-author work on two novels (the credited author still gets testy about my saying which ones, but it's okay), but have yet to complete a novel under my own name. Working on that part... (grrrrr...)
3. How many books are you working on now?
I just turned a in story for the Badder-a$$ Faeries anthology, am working on one for a Lovecraftian collection, have been bashing out a screenplay based on one of my books, and just resumed work on my on-again-off-again mythpunk novel.
4. Are you a linear or chunk writer?
For fiction, a linear one; for RPG world-building, a chunk writer. I don't outline my fiction (it seems to write itself), although I've adjusted that habit for my screenplay and consider doing so for my novel.
5. The POV you're most partial to?
First-person, definitely; second-person if it's RPG work.
6. The themes that keep cropping up in your books?
Sacred sensuality, struggles between primal and civilized elements, magic on the fringes of mundanity, and personal transformation and the responsibility that comes with it.
7. How many days a week do you write?
I wish I could truthfully say I work on my "real" writing (as opposed to Internet writing and correspondence) every day. When I'm on deadline or feeling deeply inspired, I do. More often, though, I write between one and five days a week, depending on what' else is going on in my life.
8. What time of day do you get your best writing done?
Morning, although I sometimes get a "midnight rush" that carries me deep into the night.
9. Who are your inspirations?
Stephen King inspired my love for "next-door weirdness"; Harlan Ellision fired up my love of ferocious wordplay and passionate sentiment; Francesca Lia Block showed me poetry, and Kurt Vonnegut showed me brevity. Alice Hoffman tickled my mind, Charles de Lint touched my heart, and George R.R. Martin taught me how to keep the plot cracking.
10. Who are your favorite authors to read? (different from mentors)
All of the above, plus Christopher Moore, Carrie Vaughn, Angela Carter, Carl Hiasen, Holly Black, and well... lots of people. :)