Day: July 10, 2004

Letter from Natalie

Letter from Natalie

Todd,

I wrote a letter to you a few months back, else I’d still be overflowing with comments about DK. I’ve now read it four times, though it’s still got a long way to go before it reaches The Record of twelve times reading DragonFlight. I would also like to add that I’m a Wher-Addict now, and have been innocently poking the admin of my favourite authorized MOO-RP to let us bring in Whers as well.

I’ve got a few questions to mix in with the oodles that are being thrown at you. You mention that DragonBlood is an adult novel. Do you mean this in that it’s geared to an adult audience, or that the characters have aged?

Another question I have is slightly random, but I’m rather bored and ready to ask anything. A big thing on the internet-writing-groups these days is naming and describing your muse, or what you think of when you write. Mine was, for example, a small lavender rabbit who shape-changed into the character I was writing about. I was wondering if you ever do something like this, using a focus-thought to keep your mind completely pinned to writing.

Thanks for your time,
Natalie, who is still trying to get off work for Dragon*Con.

Hi Natalie,

I’m thrilled that you like Dragon’s Kin and are a wher-addict!

My reading record is “The Lord of the Rings” (and “The Hobbit”) which I read over 17 times — and haven’t been able to pick it up since (I discovered the other night that I can recall the chapter names and contents of “The Fellowship of the Ring” without too much trouble). I’m probably going to get close with Harry Potter — because I get fed up waiting for the next book!

Dragonsblood is adult because the characters are older, the problems are farther-ranging, and because it’s written for an older audience.

I have never tried to describe my muse. I’m just grateful when I can write and patient (well, sorta) when I can’t.

Cheers,
Todd

Letter from Bats

Letter from Bats

Thanks Todd

For the list of Books,still a bit lost with ‘Get off
the Unicorn’, my all time favourites are: The MasterHarper
of Pern and The Dolphins of Pern.

I feel a bit of a Geek asking you if you had read, Kate Forsyth books. Why would
you read other Fantasies? Dumb Bat.. Full Moon.. is my excuse.

Bats

Hi Bats

Please don’t call yourself ‘dumb.’ You might start believing it and that can do no one any good. ‘Silly’ is allowed if you insist but, frankly, I think life’s too short to put yourself down, don’t you?

I often read other fantasies. I read a lot of Terry Pratchett, read Tamara Pierce’s books about Alana, I’ve read Patricia Wrede’s “Dealing with Dragons” series. I read Diane Duane and, of course, I read Harry Potter.

Right now I’m re-reading a non-fiction work, “An Army At Dawn” about the Torch landings and North African campaign. The book has rightly won a Pulitzer prize and is quite readable. Just before that I finished “The Da Vinci Code” and I’m also working on “Angels and Demons” but I’m finding that a bit of a slog.

Cheers,
Todd