Repeat Rant

[mizkit]

I have another climate change/politics/green rant building, but I do not have time to write it, so I went and looked up my Temper Tantrum Rant of a few years ago and discovered it…

…fails to apply to many of the things I want to say, but also manages to, so just go read that and assume I’m still as livid, or possibly more so, than I was that day.

Comments

[irishkate]

I have no response to that. I think you have good points on many topics and probably on the ones you really want to rant on today.

I have written longer and more reasoned replies to this post but in the end I keep deleting them because in the end it all comes down to the fact that I no longer believe...in the power of the people, in the ability to make a change, in there being anything I can do to make a change, in government, in democracy..you name it and it is probably true.

I no longer believe.

All I can do is offer a cup of virtual hot chocolate and an ear.

[mizkit]

I went through that exact same dark teatime of the soul for several years during Bush II's American reign, so I feel your pain. I recovered somewhat with Obama's election, but have not recovered the belief that everybody is of course eager for and acting toward a better world. But I've also apparently recovered the ability to be infuriated by that, so that's something. Sort of. :)

[bellinghman]

I would sign up to that trilogy in a flash - some of the best writing out there is driven by passion, and this sounds like yours.

[mizkit]

It's such a large passion I barely know where to start.

...actually, that's not true, I have notes and an idea for the trilogy's structure, which may be far, far too ambitious. I love the possibility of trying it, but it would take *time*, possibly a lot of time, and this, among many other things, is why I can't do it right now and can't actually imagine doing it as anything other than a Kickstarter, maybe, where a small passionate reader base would give me the time & rope I needed to hang myself. I think I would panic if I sold this idea on spec to a publisher. It's too complicated and I would want to get it *right*, and that's harder to do with a publication date breathing down your neck...

[gows]

And, knowing you, it would wind up being a Hitchhiker's-Guide-5-book-trilogy. :P

[mizkit]

I donno. My series are usually the length I think they're going to be. It's just individual books that get out of control... :)

[gows]

:D

(OTOH, reading your upstream bit about the enormity of it all, I'm not entirely convinced a trilogy would be sufficient.)

[mizkit]

Possibly not. Or maybe they'd just be really fat books. :) Or possibly they'd be FIVE really fat books instead of three. Who knows? Perhaps we'll find out someday.:)

[la_marquise_de_]

Big Money hates to be inconvenienced and to spend, and making the changes would cause both. And Big Money is hugely selfish. I share your frustration.

[mizkit]

That's one of the things I'd want to tackle in a climate change SF series: what it takes to move the money. It's...it's such a huge idea. And I want so badly to do it. But it's completely outside my realm as a writer--I'd almost certainly have to use another name--and *flails*

[la_marquise_de_]

I think you have the skill to do it, but I can see how it's daunting in scale. On the other hand, I am not keen on this current trend to 'brand' writers and to box them into corners. Some of the best books have come from writers exploring and growing and experimenting and I find it both restrictive and rather sinister than writers of fantasy, of romance, of some sf -- mainly women -- are told they can explore only one area, while others -- Big Name Hard sf writers, mystery writers, litfic writers -- are encouraged and applauded to try whatever they like.

[mizkit]

I, OTOH, don't mind the branding thing, because I don't really object to readers being able to say "Ah, I will get This Kind Of Book from CE Murphy, and This Other Kind if she's writing under, say, Catherine E Murphy"--which is 1. why I wrote the Cate Dermody books under that by-line, and 2. is really what we should have published the Queen's Bastard under. But, heh, they decided they were buying the CE Murphy brand as much as anything else

[controuble]

Both of those rants posts are still very relevant today as we head into our next presidential election. You better believe I vote.

As for the Kickstarter - Go, Catie! I will so be there.