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RFC writing next Honor Harrington book.
Post by pokermind   » Fri Jul 10, 2015 4:45 pm

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http://forums.davidweber.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7181 in the heading of the latest Safehold Snippet David [AKA Runsforcelery or RFC] wrote "I am way, way behind on this for a lot of Real Life Issues. A lot of them have to do with production on HFQ, others are family related, then there was the week in Chattanooga for Liberty Con, and still others have to do with the fact that I've started work on the sequel to Shadow of Freedom. All of that is eating up time and, unfortunately that's not going to get a lot better anytime soon. ..." Bolding mine.

He's behind and working to catch back up with his schedule. :( But he's started the next installment of Honor's saga :)

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Re: RFC writing next Honor Harrington book.
Post by HB of CJ   » Fri Jul 10, 2015 5:32 pm

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My greatest fear and I may be correct with this, is that no matter how much fun something is to do, there reaches a point in time and space where the fun is no longer so ... it becomes work.

Then at some point in time, what you used to love that has become work becomes real hard work. Something that at times you really do not want to get up in the morning for... for many reasons.

I hope RFC has not yet reached the first point. But ... how many millions of words does it take and how much time and effort is required before fun becomes work? And work becomes the dregs?

Just me. Respectfully. HB of CJ (old coot) POST CAPTAIN! :) Years ago I had the perfect job. I drove a Fire Engine for a very good fire agency. At first it was pure little boy FUN. Then it became?
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Re: RFC writing next Honor Harrington book.
Post by kzt   » Fri Jul 10, 2015 8:45 pm

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If you are a professional writer and you don't treat your writing like a job you are fooling yourself that you are a professional.

Once you have taken money in exchange for producing something on a schedule it's work. Nobody other than your friends really cares if you have fun or not, they care that you provide sufficient value for them to justify paying you.
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Re: RFC writing next Honor Harrington book.
Post by Dauntless   » Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:11 am

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while I agree that as soon as a writer takes money its a job, i know lots of us grow bored with jobs becuase there is no fun/pleasure ion it anymore.

a lot of writers write because they have to, they'd go crazy if they didn't but a novel like what RFC put out is a huge amount of work and I can see how after a while it would start to drag you down.
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Re: RFC writing next Honor Harrington book.
Post by AJKohler   » Sat Jul 11, 2015 8:00 am

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Dauntless wrote:a lot of writers write because they have to, they'd go crazy if they didn't but a novel like what RFC put out is a huge amount of work and I can see how after a while it would start to drag you down.


You're entirely correct here, Dauntless. Once my brain has triggered a story, I literally have to write it down in order to get it out of my head.

Fortunately, my publisher seems to think they're pretty good stories.
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