September 17, 2007 at 9:18 pm
· Filed under Cast, code writing & web development, creative writing & the arts
Optimism afflicts me in both my worlds, web development and fiction writing. The flip side of optimism is, of course, despair: when I realize it’s impossible to reach the dizzying heights to which I so casually aspired at the beginning of a project, my brain siphons away every happy chemical and erases my buzz, leaving me with a creative hangover and a depressive unwillingness to finish the project and thus prove my incompetence.
Maureen McHugh charts this emotional course, from “This is the greatest idea I’ve EVER had” down to the Dark Night of the Soul, and then back out.
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June 17, 2007 at 12:03 pm
· Filed under Cast, creative writing & the arts
I’m working on a novel.
It is a literary novel, and it came to me in a flash: I worked out the initial outline in a day (two weeks ago) and wrote the first chapter last week. After slogging word by agonizing word through my previous novel effort, which is still untitled and lacks an outline, for half a dozen years, I’m now looking at a novel that could conceivably take me 15 weeks (one per chapter) to have an initial draft in hand.
Synopsis (One Sentence)
Forty-seven hours before their youngest brother’s wedding, Tasha Cooper’s sister Annie fails to get off her plane, so Tasha jumps a flight with her uptight sister Jill in a race against time, a hurricane, and their own family demons as they track down Annie and try to get back in time for the ceremony.
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