Deep thoughts (God, somebody slap the emo out of me.)

[chandri]

I occasionally do have those at work; these were of the wordslinging kind. All day today I was thinking: "if Riverwend is pissing me off this much, right now, perhaps I should change my plans." The original plans were to query with Riverwend this month, and keep working on Meadhon. Admittedly, though, at the time I had not finished the first book

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[cocoajava]

<3!

So, what format will I be gleefully pouncing on? Paper copy, or digital? *bounces*

[chandri]

Digital, though mainly because I am selfish and impatient. (Also at this point it is mainly quality-control - I'm fairly sure there are no more plot-holes and I'm doing a final prose-prettiness sweep as we speak.) :)

And now I have to send another pestering text message to my sister. *evil grin*

[cocoajava]

Digital works for me! I'm a lot more into pixels than paper! Just hit me with it whenever you feel ready. This will be fun. *bounce*

[artemisiabrisol]

You may want to eat some biscuits as well. It sounds serious.

I think you need to put Riverwend away for a little while until it becomes less of a lurking, malevolent presence. When it becomes shiny and new and you've had some time to process the various commentaries and question about the book, then you can go back to it. But only when you're ready.

It's nothing to be ashamed of and certainly nothing to feel guilty about. The book just needs some more stewing time.

[chandri]

It's actually been lurking and malevolent from about a day after you left. Aside from the things that are fairly easily fixed, like the major plot things, it just is... irrationally gigantic and intimidating.

The guilt is mostly from a feeling of disloyalty. I am a bad author! The Riverwenders are wandering Shantytown! Never mind, that is such an in-joke. Also, I am showing blatant favouritism. So there's that.

Lurking and malevolent. That's why I put it under the bed. *firm nod*