12/23/2003: "Unstuck in time"
Music: The coffee makerMood: Dawn
One weird aspect of writing books is the temporal disconnect.
What? Let me explain.
I finished the manuscript for AMERICAN GOTHIC last summer. Now I’m working on the DARK AGES trilogy, though my agent is still ironing out the deal for that. Yesterday, I had to pull my head out of DARK AGES to spend the day making minor revisions to AMERICAN GOTHIC.
As far as I’m concerned, AMERICAN GOTHIC is more than done and in my past. However, for my editor, it’s his current project. For readers, it’s something they’re waiting on and won’t see until next April.
When AMERICAN GOTHIC comes out in the spring, it will be time for me to temporarily abandon DARK AGES – which I’ll be deeply into at that point – and put myself back in the frame of mind I was in about a year earlier while working on AM GOTH, in order to do some promotion for the “new” book.
Sometimes I get so confused…
Selah.
