You may remember a little while ago I was given the opportunity to read along as a story got put together, altered, another 300 words added, nothing for a week due to travel and other distractions, another 1500 workds and a major revelation, some doubt as to whether the revelation gave too much away about other bigger issues, and so on.
I jumped at it and ever since as Steve Savile's upcoming novel London Macabre has developed i've been able to watch. Steve seems to particularly enjoy getting distracted just after something huge happens and leaving me hanging for a day or two, or making me try and guess what happens next. I think tormenting innocent bloggers may just be part of his creative process.
At any rate, the experiance of reading along is alternately unbelievably wonderful and deeply frustrating. I suspect the writing part feels similar. I'm looking forward to the book being finished and on the shelves, but I think I will miss this bit. I love the way Steve writes and the plot sits happily into my darker reading, the bit by bit supply is preventing me from my usual tactic with a book like this of sitting down and reading until it's done. I've had a few sleepless nights, knowing Steve is not one to hold off killing a character just because other people don't want him to. I've had some discussions that have threatened to become philosophical and i've had days of distraction wondering about other worlds and the myths behind landmarks.
I have no aspiration to write but I am loving the sidelines of the process and when the finished product with it's dark cover and darker content is nestled happily on my shelves, read, reviewed, published and done, I will be a little bereft. The gentlemen of Greyfriars have become so much part of my routine now that I have a somewhat companionable relationship with them that I will notice as an absence. The long and the short of that is, i suppose, that I shall be hounding you all to buy LM so Steve has to write more Greyfriars books and I can continue to get my fix.
2 comments:
That must be really neat to follow a WIP. Don't think I'd be brave enough to post my own for the world to see though!
LDW - well it's not out there for the world, he's emailing it to me bit by bit, but it is wonderful to be able to follow this way. :)
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