Katherine Kurtz

[barbarienne]

Pretty much any time my lj goes quiet, it's a sign that I'm either busy at dayjob or actually writing fiction. The last two years it's been both

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[clarentine]

Isn't it astonishing how much of our literary output can often be traced back to a single progenitor? I remember those Deryni books, mostly because during the period they were being published, I had no money not already committed elsewhere and never read them. Thank you for calling them once more to my attention.

And let's hear it for character-based plots! I'm sure the pendulum will swing back once more in favor of quest/save-the-world fantasy, but it's neither what I read nor what I write--and, given my own works' progenitors, probably never will be.

Brava on the nearly-wrapped novel draft.

[barbarienne]

I hadn't thought about that particular scene in any great detail in years, until Kari's article reminded me. And now I'm like, "Holy shit, it's right there. It's all RIGHT THERE."

My other progenitor scenes would probably be the duel between Corwin and Eric about midway through Nine Princes in Amber, and the battle up Kolvir in that book as well. And of course Eowyn slaying the Witch-king of Angmar, which is fine in the movie, but so much better in the book.

[clarentine]

Nine Princes was definitely the first fantasy work I knowingly read where I recognized the thing I'd loved and internalized so thoroughly in early reading--my own fascination will always be with the spy who came in out of the cold, courtesy of James Bond and Samuel Durrell. (Military base mini-libraries FTW! /wry)