Writer's writing blogs, sadness about Diana Wynne Jones, and potentially awesome news

[xfirefly9x]

+ Should I start writing a blog? - a post for writers.

+ Being Alive: Mostly About Diana - a post by Neil Gaiman on the death of Diana Wynne Jones. (She will be missed. She was one of my favourite authors in primary school; I loved Homeward Bounders.)

+ I have potentially awesome news, but til it's no longer potential I'm hesitant to mention anything more about it. Update on that later.

Comments

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

Wow, three years before you hit the big-time? What if you don't know when it's gonna happen? O.o Seems very specific and the kind of thing you know in hindsight. But interesting idea, nonetheless.

DWJ! >_< I just started reading a few books of hers recently. So sad.

Hope that potential news turns into confirmed awesome news! (IS IT THE INTERNSHIP? IDEK, random guess, but that was like, so last week, so yeah)

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Apparently, yup. I guess once you're a chapter or so into writing a novel, that'd be about the time to start it? Know what the idea is so you can post about it, and share snippets along the way, get people interested.. By the time you're finished writing, given it a bit of time to breathe and then edited and sent to get published, I guess you'd have a decent number of people waiting to read if you did things right.

So very sad, yeah. I loved her stuff.

Hee, thanks.
Internship related? Yes/no. Still working on details, so I don't want to say anything before I'm sure what's happening.

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

Oops, I didn't mean to make you think you had to confirm/deny! I was just speculating, bb, I don't expect any answers. It's just that I always guess something but then I don't want to say in case I'm wrong, only then it turns out I was right and saying 'Oh, I knew that' after the fact is lame, so I just wanted to get my theory out there. ^_^

You got a point, if the person does it right, then that'd be a great marketing process. The prob is that someone might be passionate about their project and then lose interest or inspiration along the way and then all that effort was a waste. Some people might wanna work on the project and finish it first before letting other people in. It'd be embarrassing to get a following and then get stuck!

Which was your fave book? A friend of mine's been going on and on about the Chrestomanci (sp?) book/s. I don't know if he knows, he's such a huge fan, I don't want to crush him with this news. :{

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

LOL it's fine. I don't mind saying that much. I just won't go into details yet til I know what the details are. :)

Yep. That would be a problem for sure, but then if you keep with a blog and all that for so long, even if you decided to go another way with it or stop you'd have followers, a lot of whom may continue to follow you should you go in another direction with what you're working on or something. *shrug*

Else, yeah.. what you said there. A writer could work on something without sharing details but still develop a blog/following ahead of time by blogging about writing in general and/or topics that they write about (eg. science or technology for a sci fi writer perhaps). Kind of like LJ.. We all have followers of sorts in our friends. If we suddenly wrote a book to get published, there'd be that pre-existing base on which to push off from.. an audience to start with. Which, I'm sure people would recommend or link if they're good enough friends, that kind of thing?

Fav book? Homeward Bounders was my fav by her. Though I do recall the Chrestomanci (sp?) books also. I read all the books by her that were in the local library back when I was in primary school. Used to record every book I read to see how many I'd get through in a yr. I should track it down and see. Many folders of old school books to get through so might hold off on tracking it down for now.

[weird-fin.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks for the link to Gaiman's blog.

Hope it works out, so know the feeling about not wanting to state where things are at before you really know for sure.

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Np. I thought you and a few others may find it interesting.

Thanks. In this case I think it'll be good news whatever way it goes. I just want to confirm it first. :)

[meridian_rose]

Very sad; I loved How'ls Moving Castle.
Fingers crossed for your awesome news to be finalised :D

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. :(
Hehe, thanks. Few emails to send to a few people and things to be planned out and figured, but hopefully it'll all work out..