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purplecthulhu at 11:47pm on 06/03/2008
purplecthulhu at 11:47pm on 06/03/2008As some of you may know, I've been spending rather too much of the last several months writing a novel. It's nearly finished, at least in first draft. Tonight I came to a realization. I'm going to miss my central characters when it's done...
Phil's occasionally misdirected youthful exuberance, Jo's quiet geekiness, Gee's attempts to be a quiet centre to it all, doomed to failure because she cares too much for her crew, Althea's spiky academic arrogance. I'm even going to miss Bourbaki, the evil composite AI, superiority complex and all. I've spent a lot of the last few months with these people and when it's done I'm going to miss them.
Is this natural?
Yes, some might come back if I have a reason to write one or two of the planned sequels, but I don't know that that's going to happen. I feel responsible for them. I don't want to abandon them to the dark authorless void, but at the end of the novel that's what has to happen...
Am I being entirely sane here?????
Phil's occasionally misdirected youthful exuberance, Jo's quiet geekiness, Gee's attempts to be a quiet centre to it all, doomed to failure because she cares too much for her crew, Althea's spiky academic arrogance. I'm even going to miss Bourbaki, the evil composite AI, superiority complex and all. I've spent a lot of the last few months with these people and when it's done I'm going to miss them.
Is this natural?
Yes, some might come back if I have a reason to write one or two of the planned sequels, but I don't know that that's going to happen. I feel responsible for them. I don't want to abandon them to the dark authorless void, but at the end of the novel that's what has to happen...
Am I being entirely sane here?????
sad