April Writing and May Goals

[osprey_archer]

Most important writing news of the month: Tramps and Vagabonds is now available for preorder! It will release on May 9.

Knocking Tramps and Vagabonds into shape took up a good deal of April, but I have been trundling away on Sleeping Beauty as well. I’m up to 90,000 words! I would love to say I’ll finish a draft in May, but honestly June seems more likely.

Once I have a complete draft I’m going to set it aside to cool, as it were, and work on something else. Perhaps at last those 1910s college girls will get the attention they deserve? I’m toying with the idea of mushing this story together with the Goblin Market retelling, because of COURSE vivacious trickster madcap Judy is exactly the sort of person who WOULD eat the fairy fruit.

The girls are going to make a one-reel film, on the topic of fairies of course. Judy plays the Puck character, who kisses the eyes of a sleeping maiden to give her the fairy sight, and then leads her into the fairy mound. Judy’s acerbic roommate Ruth directs.

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[troisoiseaux]

Perhaps at last those 1910s college girls will get the attention they deserve? I’m toying with the idea of mushing this story together with the Goblin Market retelling, because of COURSE vivacious trickster madcap Judy is exactly the sort of person who WOULD eat the fairy fruit.

Ooooooooh!

[osprey_archer]

Judy is also the kind of person whose transformation into post-fairy-fruit miserable grouch would be particularly noticeable and alarming.

[skygiants]

OF COURSE THEY ARE

[osprey_archer]

Originally they were merely going to do a college production of As You Like It or possible A Midsummer Night's Dream, but why do a mere play when I could throw in a women film director! Perhaps someday I will cease throwing in women film directors at every opportunity but Today Is Not That Day.

[asakiyume]

Putting the Goblin Market aspect intot he 1910s college girls story sounds like a winning combination!

May 9! Stick-it-to-Vladimir-Putin Day!

[osprey_archer]

Sometimes the way to write a book is the smash absolutely everything into it and see how it turns out!

[calandrahunter]

Pre-order \o/

(also, that cover with the ferris wheel is so cute.)

[osprey_archer]

Ferris wheels make such good covers!