Mad Days of Cray; Hidden Talents Randoms
Oof! A storm of luck came blasting in this month. I've been hired to write for a fashion & entertainment publication! I'm really excited about this change in day jobs and I anticipate it having a super-healthy impact on my own creative life. Until now, I've been working in a socially-intense job (on an early morning schedule! x_x) that often left my brain drained by day's end. I'm so excited to get my cubicle and my computer and to ride the happy rhythm of light news writing all day. Blogging and news writing have always been good for me -- they get me all primed and warmed up for clean, quick storytelling in the evening.
Let's just hope working in the NYC fashion & entertainment sphere won't be too Devil-Wears-Prada...
Hidden Talents is CHURNING in my mind. Sometimes it's so hard not to spoil it for you! Because I know what's coming! And it's so good! Am I allowed to say that? It's so good! I LOVE writing these guys. Absolutely love. I love every last fucked up one of them, especially the ones who drive me crazy -- looking at you, Sky. Looking at you, Jackson. Looking at you, Mark. Looking at -- wait, do they all sort of drive me crazy?
I know sometimes the tangles in the story seem a little thick to some people. It does make me happy to hear readers compare it to a TV show, because it was originally meant to be just that kind of story -- episodic, with characters and back stories complex and mysterious enough to be obsessively analyzed and puzzled over. This endeavor requires strong, well-defined characters and CONSISTENCY above all. It is imperative to demonstrate that I know the universe and characters 100% and honor the reality of each sentence, so that readers accept and trust the story enough to let their minds go wild on details, clues, behavioral tics, etc. I really hope I am accomplishing this if nothing else. There is not a single detail revealed about these characters that is negligent. Everything I write about these guys is as real as stone.
Confession: The hardest scenes to write, so far, have been those with Mark and Sky in Take Off. I even started to doubt the story at one point, thinking maybe I'd gotten something wrong and they weren't meant to be interacting like that. Then I realized that Mark and Sky simply have a really awkward chemistry, an uncertain connection, and a confused version of...um, friendship? And that's just them. It was hard to leave that kind of awkwardness on the page, to wonder if readers would be able to see what I saw or if they'd think things had just gotten clumsy. But I had to let it go in the end and hope I'd built enough trust in the story to support such a departure from the chemistry found in the other relationships. I still don't really enjoy writing Mark & Sky scenes as much as, oh, anyone-else & anyone-else scenes, but I know they're as important for the characters as they are challenging for me.
Last thing: If you don't follow my Tumblr, I want to let you know that I recently responded to a very interesting message regarding my treatment of Sky's background -- something I've heard occasional concerns with since the first volume was published. If you're interested, check out the question and my response.
SOOOOOOOOOOOO STOKED FOR THIS NEXT VOLUME! xo
Let's just hope working in the NYC fashion & entertainment sphere won't be too Devil-Wears-Prada...
Hidden Talents is CHURNING in my mind. Sometimes it's so hard not to spoil it for you! Because I know what's coming! And it's so good! Am I allowed to say that? It's so good! I LOVE writing these guys. Absolutely love. I love every last fucked up one of them, especially the ones who drive me crazy -- looking at you, Sky. Looking at you, Jackson. Looking at you, Mark. Looking at -- wait, do they all sort of drive me crazy?
I know sometimes the tangles in the story seem a little thick to some people. It does make me happy to hear readers compare it to a TV show, because it was originally meant to be just that kind of story -- episodic, with characters and back stories complex and mysterious enough to be obsessively analyzed and puzzled over. This endeavor requires strong, well-defined characters and CONSISTENCY above all. It is imperative to demonstrate that I know the universe and characters 100% and honor the reality of each sentence, so that readers accept and trust the story enough to let their minds go wild on details, clues, behavioral tics, etc. I really hope I am accomplishing this if nothing else. There is not a single detail revealed about these characters that is negligent. Everything I write about these guys is as real as stone.
Confession: The hardest scenes to write, so far, have been those with Mark and Sky in Take Off. I even started to doubt the story at one point, thinking maybe I'd gotten something wrong and they weren't meant to be interacting like that. Then I realized that Mark and Sky simply have a really awkward chemistry, an uncertain connection, and a confused version of...um, friendship? And that's just them. It was hard to leave that kind of awkwardness on the page, to wonder if readers would be able to see what I saw or if they'd think things had just gotten clumsy. But I had to let it go in the end and hope I'd built enough trust in the story to support such a departure from the chemistry found in the other relationships. I still don't really enjoy writing Mark & Sky scenes as much as, oh, anyone-else & anyone-else scenes, but I know they're as important for the characters as they are challenging for me.
Last thing: If you don't follow my Tumblr, I want to let you know that I recently responded to a very interesting message regarding my treatment of Sky's background -- something I've heard occasional concerns with since the first volume was published. If you're interested, check out the question and my response.
SOOOOOOOOOOOO STOKED FOR THIS NEXT VOLUME! xo
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