'Just Rewards (2)'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
As someone who's been reading along, it doesn't feel that long. It's one of those rare few stories that make me rush home from work just so I can keep reading so I can find out what happens next.
Yep. I just want more. I may have mentioned that. *cough* I stop where a chapter or section stops. and then later, I find myself thinking I'll read some more. Then I remember I don't have more. Then I obsessively check my email, looking for more.
I stop where a chapter or section stops. and then later, I find myself thinking I'll read some more. Then I remember I don't have more. Then I obsessively check my email, looking for more.
Exactly! I'm going to be really let down when the book is finished. (Again, something that only happens with the rush-home-to-read-it type of book.)
A previous roommate of mine did the same thing when she was just in love with a book, including talking about the characters in the present tense when she wasn't even reading the book. For instance, when she read Harry Potter, we'd be at the grocery store or some such, and she'd suddenly say, "I wonder what Harry's doing right now?"
Well, I have this feeling I'm going to start doing that with R&RNF.
I'm with you guys. I can hardly wait for each new installment. And I'm going to be very sad when the book is done, because I won't have a new chapter every day. I say we start agitating for the sequel, now!
A previous roommate of mine did the same thing when she was just in love with a book, including talking about the characters in the present tense when she wasn't even reading the book. For instance, when she read Harry Potter, we'd be at the grocery store or some such, and she'd suddenly say, "I wonder what Harry's doing right now?"
I'm trying to remember the last book I did that with...maybe The Red Tent. I know I also did it with season 3 Buffy, which is the first season I found the show. As a teen, I used to do it with soap operas. I am doing it, in between deb's installments of R&RNF.
And I'm going to be very sad when the book is done, because I won't have a new chapter every day. I say we start agitating for the sequel, now!I'm right with you on this, Sail. I think deb mentioned series to me, at one point. I believe I salivated in response.
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Wow. Way to make the writer lady happy, yo.
Update: this book - barring fire, flood or small asteroid falling out of sky because Bruce Willis didn't do his job and destroy it - is likely going to be done by Friday. How scary is that? I wrote Plainsong in just over six weeks, but this - yikes.
I'm already beginning to think about second book. There will be a lot of growth and changes on the part of the characters to work in there, the physical health issues, whether or not JP can continue to tour as part of a world-class band even though they do the Stones deal of only touring every few years, whether the occasionally infuriating Bree (yes, I know she's me, and I'm surprised he didn't throttle me with piano wire, if I as half as infuriating then as my character is now; "Bree d'Arc" is about right) can let him breathe a bit, JP hooking up with his local buddies to do some local touring stuff. Plus, I'm thinking the second book will involve Carla (their publicist/RunsEverything woman) and also a new character I want to write in, a Bay Area luthier.
Oh, and since the second book would involve a luthier (hi, Matt! hi, Nic!), it would have to be called While My Guitar Gently Weeps. I mean, dayum, what else, right?
I doubt sequels would have quite the emotional punch of the first one - so much came out in there, so much was looked at and worked through. But this is my AU, my "what-if", and they need to continue to grow, to learn, to deal.
PLEI! I am sooooooooooooo happy to be posting with you.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Oh yes. Love this. Loooove this.
I'll third (fourth? fifth?) all the others. This is reading to me like something already published. For a first draft, lady, you write damn fine. So it's hard to remember that when I finish a chapter, I can't hole up in the bedroom and just devour the rest.
Update: this book - barring fire, flood or small asteroid falling out of sky because Bruce Willis didn't do his job and destroy it - is likely going to be done by Friday.
Yowsa. No better that a book was callign out to be written, huh?
And I'll have feedback of the "meep" variety in a little bit.
I'm going to be very interested to see what my agent has to say about it, when she finally does sit down to read it. She had a couple of unscheduled weeks away from her desk (family crisis or something), and really does sound buried. A few of her clients have books coming out shortly; Laura Anne Gilman's Curse the Dark is in heavy pre-order mode, and I'm hoping the numbers for pre-order on Matty Groves pick up a bit, since the continuing life of Ringan and Penny may well depend on how well MG does in pre-sale.
But honestly, I'm so invested in the new one that everything else seems to have dropped away, a good bit, too. Which is probably a good thing, since otherwise I'd be fretting over it and obsessing over wanting to torch St. Martins.
Plus, I'm thinking the second book will involve Carla (their publicist/RunsEverything woman) and also a new character I want to write in, a Bay Area luthier.
More Domitra!!!
More Domitra!!!
Oh, yes. ita's avatar, complete with kickass shoes, will be there. One of the points I want to take on (thanks to Very Cool Husband for this suggestion) is what happens when Blacklight goes into the studio, records a new album - and the first single release is, basically, U2's "Vertigo".
You know? One of those songs, that pushes the CD itself into the stratosphere, which is what happened with "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb". Because when a release does that, the entire touring reality changes.
U2 is taking as relaxed an approach as they can for this tour. And they're going to play something like 240 shows over two years, on five continents. And Blacklight has the same ethic U2 does: every show they do has to be the best show they've ever done.
Well - JP has MS and he's 54 and he's had a mild heart attack. Would he stay with the band? He's already questioning whether it's fair to Blacklight...
I am so far behind in reading this. But I've uploaded the whole thing to my Palm, so I can snatch bits here and there, instead of waiting for uninterrupted spells of being home and awake. Which wasn't really happening.