Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! New computer!!!

[hmpf]

I've had huge amounts of computer trouble over the last few weeks, and when I wasn't offline due to that I was travelling and whatnot, so I've been very absent from the online world. I fully intend to write a real update here tonight, but now I have to go to uni for a four-hour seminar. But I just found something really nice that I want to share: two of my favourite writers talking to each other:

http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=gaimanwolfe

They make a really good team in this interview, I think!

This is also a place worth a visit:

http://www.urth.net/

Beware: this website is like a black hole. It swallowed me once and only let me go after a reading marathon of 16 hours.

Comments

[carenejeans.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I read that interview a long while ago in the New York Review of Science Fiction -- odd that they don't credit it.

I remember it because Wolfe said something that gave me hope... this:

GW: All my books are bears in first draft. Certainly The Knight was. The first draft was terrible, and when I finished it I had an unworkable kludge. That's an engineer's mistake. A doctor can bury his; an engineer's sit out back and rust at him. The second draft was often fun, mostly because I knew it was getting better. The third and fourth drafts were very pleasant. I don't know if four is "many drafts," but to the best of my memory that's what it got.

Four drafts. I can do four drafts. I've got a bear and an unworkable kludge now, but after four drafts...

I envy people who write almost fininshed first drafts, but I'm not one of them. It's good do know I'm not alone.

You're not the only one.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think four drafts is laughably few drafts. Although perhaps for a novel the length of Wolfe's, anything much beyond four drafts would be impractical. But for short stories I certainly do more than four drafts, usually.