Frantic writing silence interrupted to bring you a sentence of AMAZING GENIUS.
Ok, Sarah Monette fangirl time! Squeee!
So Sarah Monette's regular writer's unplugged post is up today, and it's a pretty interesting look at breaking away from the formula when writing love stories in novels that aren't category romance titled "Should Cinderella Kiss the Prince?"
The whole thing is definitely worth a read if you care about how stories are put together, but her ending sentence totally blew me out of the water:
"If you’re writing a romance, yes, Cinderella kisses the prince. If you’re writing a novel about a girl who’s been abused and degraded and exploited by her stepmother and stepsisters for years while her father does nothing to help her, and whose fairy godmother seems to feel that the only thing worth intervening for is a ball . . . well, maybe she should and maybe she shouldn’t. It kind of depends on the prince."
TRUER WORDS HAVE NEVER BEEN SPOKEN. Fangirling justified yet again!
Edited to add:
Another awesome quote, this time from Sarah Monette's question and answer sessions:
"On the other hand, I can assure you that Amaryllis Cordelia planned that pregnancy like a war. And like a war, first contact with the enemy destroyed her plan."
This woman can turn a phrase into something it never dreamed of being. God, I love her.
So Sarah Monette's regular writer's unplugged post is up today, and it's a pretty interesting look at breaking away from the formula when writing love stories in novels that aren't category romance titled "Should Cinderella Kiss the Prince?"
The whole thing is definitely worth a read if you care about how stories are put together, but her ending sentence totally blew me out of the water:
"If you’re writing a romance, yes, Cinderella kisses the prince. If you’re writing a novel about a girl who’s been abused and degraded and exploited by her stepmother and stepsisters for years while her father does nothing to help her, and whose fairy godmother seems to feel that the only thing worth intervening for is a ball . . . well, maybe she should and maybe she shouldn’t. It kind of depends on the prince."
TRUER WORDS HAVE NEVER BEEN SPOKEN. Fangirling justified yet again!
Edited to add:
Another awesome quote, this time from Sarah Monette's question and answer sessions:
"On the other hand, I can assure you that Amaryllis Cordelia planned that pregnancy like a war. And like a war, first contact with the enemy destroyed her plan."
This woman can turn a phrase into something it never dreamed of being. God, I love her.