από Madame Maxime Τρι Νοε 17, 2009 11:37 pm
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To address the many, many questions about Midnight Sun:
I am not working on Midnight Sun now. I donʼt have a plan for when Iʼll get to it; I donʼt know now what the right time for it will be.
In your questions, there were some erroneous conclusions about the situation which Iʼll try to set straight. First, Midnight Sun is not finished and locked in a safe, waiting for me to be done angsting over the leak. If it were done, I would be throwing it on the bookstore shelves myself. Iʼd love to be able to give it to all the people who are anxiously waiting for it. Second, I am not upset about the leak. I havenʼt been for a long time; I was over it after about three weeks. Third, and most important, I am not trying to punish anyone. Not the persons who leaked it, not the people who read the leak, nobody. As I said, it would make me very happy to be able to give it to anyone who wants it.
So why the hold up? Because itʼs not finished and lying in a safe. Itʼs not done, and finishing it is not a simple matter of sitting down in front of my computer and typing out the words; the words have to be there in my head to type out, and right now, theyʼre not. I have to be in the zone to write any story, and trying to force myself into that zone is a waste of time, Iʼve found. Iʼll get back to Midnight Sun when the story is compelling to me again. Just because people want it so badly does not make it more write-able; kind of the opposite, actually. I need to be alone with a story to write, and Midnight Sun feels really crowded, if you know what I mean.
People write for different reasons. I have always written to make myself happy. If Iʼm enjoying a story, feeling the creativity flow, engrossed in a world, then I write and I write fast. If Iʼm not into it, I canʼt write. Iʼve never been someone who writes on demand and I canʼt imagine working that way. As cool as it would be to say to my favorite author, “You know, Iʼd really like to read a great book about a narwhal mafia. Write that for me, ʽkay?” or even “Iʼd love a sequel to that last one,” thatʼs not how it works. How it works is that my favorite author writes a new book about whatever he/she is interested in. Maybe it takes a year, maybe it takes five. If itʼs something I want to read, I buy it or I check it out at the library. If not, I find something else to read. The end.
(All of this goes for writing about vampires in general, too. Vampires and I? Weʼre on a break.)
Iʼm pretty sure this wonʼt slow the pleadings and the demands, but I didnʼt want you to think I was ignoring the question.
In the meantime, there are so many great books out there. Iʼve got some recommendations on my site, and any librarian would love to show you more options. Same goes for independent bookstore employees. Ask for guidance, and they will fill your arms with awesomeness![u]