Question meme . . .

[pegkerr]

If ellen_kushner was brave enough to post this, then hey, why not me?*

If you could force me to write anything, what would it be?

(*Realizing, of course, that I'm not saying I'll actually do it. I'm just curious as to how people will respond . . .)

Comments

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

'Anything' means anything! Your choice!

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

I wasn't quite sure if your creative writing was a sore topic, so that's why I asked - didn't want to upset.

But in that case my answer is a sequel to Emerald House Rising. It's my most-oft-loaned-out book and everybody returns it lamenting there are no more books in the universe.

[slrose.livejournal.com]

Me too!

That's what I was going to say.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

See my answer here.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

It's unfair, perhaps, to tease you, but I did start one. It petered out after 10,000 words or so. That was several computers ago; I'm not sure I could lay my hands on any of the manuscript anymore.

I'd said in Emerald House Rising that wizards always worked in male-female pairs, and I set out to find a way around that rule in the (unnamed) sequel. What I remember about it was that the main viewpoint character was a castrato (a man who had been gelded to keep his boy soprano singing voice) in a wizard quartet: the castrato, another man, and a pair of women who were identical twins . . . so that they could joke that between the four of them, they added up to one man and one woman.

[corinnethewise.livejournal.com]

Me too on the sequel to EHR - of course no expectations that it will happen, but that would be totally awesome. I have this problem with all the fantasy worlds I like. I always want to read more because that's really the only place to find out more about that world!

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I wasn't aware of that! Thanks for letting me know.

[boldpurpletext.livejournal.com]

I don't usually reply to things just to say me too, but since this is kind of a survey... me too!