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Brief Miscellany
I am giving myself a deadline for finishing ITWOS: I want it done before the season 4 premiere. I know once it's finished, I'll be spending some time doing a final edit to pull up its socks and fix continuity problems and maybe organize it into chapters instead of the unwieldy mess it is presently, but by September, I don't want to still be writing new prose for it. So, fingers crossed!
The Land of Stories! I'm sort of eking out. It's something I think I would have enjoyed most when I was 6/7-ish. I think it fits into a space in my brain the way Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree did, though it may be too soon to tell. The writing is good, solid, at times lyrical, though I've come across a few bits where the editor could have been more vigilant. (The lay vs. lie usage flub is, hands down, my biggest peeve in writing today). But what I really am enjoying most are the little nuggets of insight in the story, that smack me in the face and make me wish that--as precocious as I was as a child and younger person--I'd had even a fraction of the wisdom this boy has at 22.
Chris Colfer just keeps impressing me, and I'm honestly flummoxed by this. I've been doing my best to follow all his recent interviews, because he is so consistently delightful. But I'm not usually interested in celebrities at all beyond their work: this boy is something extra special. I've never seen it before, perhaps because I don't look very hard, but IDK, I think he may be one of those once in a generation kind of talents. Maybe he's like John Keats, only he gets to live past his 21st birthday.
I actually had a dream about him the other night. I was sitting on a bus with him and we were talking about E.O. Wilson's book, Consilience, which is a book I have wanted to read since it was published, but have not yet (I'm always 100 books behind on my to read list). In my dream, I had read it. Odd. In the conversation, I misattributed the Haldane quote (Q: 'What has your study of biology taught you about God?' Haldane: "[That he has] an inordinate fondness for beetles") to Wilson. Whatever. It made dream!Chris laugh. Subconscious, what are you trying to tell me?
The Land of Stories! I'm sort of eking out. It's something I think I would have enjoyed most when I was 6/7-ish. I think it fits into a space in my brain the way Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree did, though it may be too soon to tell. The writing is good, solid, at times lyrical, though I've come across a few bits where the editor could have been more vigilant. (The lay vs. lie usage flub is, hands down, my biggest peeve in writing today). But what I really am enjoying most are the little nuggets of insight in the story, that smack me in the face and make me wish that--as precocious as I was as a child and younger person--I'd had even a fraction of the wisdom this boy has at 22.
Chris Colfer just keeps impressing me, and I'm honestly flummoxed by this. I've been doing my best to follow all his recent interviews, because he is so consistently delightful. But I'm not usually interested in celebrities at all beyond their work: this boy is something extra special. I've never seen it before, perhaps because I don't look very hard, but IDK, I think he may be one of those once in a generation kind of talents. Maybe he's like John Keats, only he gets to live past his 21st birthday.
I actually had a dream about him the other night. I was sitting on a bus with him and we were talking about E.O. Wilson's book, Consilience, which is a book I have wanted to read since it was published, but have not yet (I'm always 100 books behind on my to read list). In my dream, I had read it. Odd. In the conversation, I misattributed the Haldane quote (Q: 'What has your study of biology taught you about God?' Haldane: "[That he has] an inordinate fondness for beetles") to Wilson. Whatever. It made dream!Chris laugh. Subconscious, what are you trying to tell me?