I haven't read The Folk of the Air or American Gods
I love The Folk of the Air, which is by Peter S. Beagle and has gods and witchery and unstuck time in a university town in California; American Gods has a more epic aim, with a war between the old and new gods of America, and I'm somewhat more ambivalent about it.
You're not generally called to do longer works (novels), right?
Not so far. I am midway through two novellas that are currently in the 12,000-plus range, and in fact need to get back to them as soon as I finish my current deadline, but that's the highest my wordcount has ever gone.
Did you ever try writing a "scene two" with them, after they're back in the car or at the next stop? Or step back a scene to where they were a week before this tire blowout?
Right after I finished "How Many Miles to Babylon?" I started one story about what happens next and another about how the characters originally met, but they stalled out terminally. It does feel like a sketch for something more, I agree. I've just never been able to figure out what, or how to write it.
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I love The Folk of the Air, which is by Peter S. Beagle and has gods and witchery and unstuck time in a university town in California; American Gods has a more epic aim, with a war between the old and new gods of America, and I'm somewhat more ambivalent about it.
You're not generally called to do longer works (novels), right?
Not so far. I am midway through two novellas that are currently in the 12,000-plus range, and in fact need to get back to them as soon as I finish my current deadline, but that's the highest my wordcount has ever gone.
Did you ever try writing a "scene two" with them, after they're back in the car or at the next stop? Or step back a scene to where they were a week before this tire blowout?
Right after I finished "How Many Miles to Babylon?" I started one story about what happens next and another about how the characters originally met, but they stalled out terminally. It does feel like a sketch for something more, I agree. I've just never been able to figure out what, or how to write it.