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I picked up De Lint's Moonheart this morning. I was sucked in from the first paragraph--not that I couldn't put it down, but I was grinning inside, and thought "Yes, I want to read this book."
He did establish a sort of a hook. Not a problem necessarily. He's taking his time to establish. No, it's the setting, the character where he puts in just enough quirk you know it's a real person, but they're also recognizeable as the sort of person you've met somewhere. The fascinating place. The hint of the magical about to impact on that life and challenge them to new growth and new gifts.
I've known for a while that my strengths (and, more importantly, my interests) lay not in intense plotting. I love twisty plots. They always astound me, and so I'm great fan for those like Megan Whalen Turner who can put together a story that bends around your brain and then comes straight at you, unexpected.
But I can't write them. At least, not yet.
McKillip is another favorite, but she doesn't twist the plot so much as complicate it by introducing new things, characters especially who you want to win ALSO.
I wonder how much frustration I'd save by learning to write the stories I can tell? I'm getting better about it, but still...
For now there certainly is value in stretching myself to do things I can't do easily or well. But when I become a serious careerist, I think I'll have to let go of the supers. They run me ragged, and still look rather sedentary.
He did establish a sort of a hook. Not a problem necessarily. He's taking his time to establish. No, it's the setting, the character where he puts in just enough quirk you know it's a real person, but they're also recognizeable as the sort of person you've met somewhere. The fascinating place. The hint of the magical about to impact on that life and challenge them to new growth and new gifts.
I've known for a while that my strengths (and, more importantly, my interests) lay not in intense plotting. I love twisty plots. They always astound me, and so I'm great fan for those like Megan Whalen Turner who can put together a story that bends around your brain and then comes straight at you, unexpected.
But I can't write them. At least, not yet.
McKillip is another favorite, but she doesn't twist the plot so much as complicate it by introducing new things, characters especially who you want to win ALSO.
I wonder how much frustration I'd save by learning to write the stories I can tell? I'm getting better about it, but still...
For now there certainly is value in stretching myself to do things I can't do easily or well. But when I become a serious careerist, I think I'll have to let go of the supers. They run me ragged, and still look rather sedentary.
