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I was right about the book feeling like a Russian novel!::: takes a victory lap around the room :::
...okay, so was everyone else. Take your laps, too.
I liked how she kept saying that she was lazy but then she mentioned that she did her PhD. Maybe she's just less motivated than she was then. ;)
terpkristin wrote: "I liked how she kept saying that she was lazy but then she mentioned that she did her PhD. Maybe she's just less motivated than she was then. ;)"Selectively lazy, I guess. Lazy about tasks she doesn't find fun or interesting. I can totally relate.
Joanna wrote: "Selectively lazy, I guess. Lazy about tasks she doesn't find fun or interesting. "I'd like to meet the person at the end of the dissertation process still finding it fun and interesting :)
Joanna wrote: "I can totally relate."Oh, so can I. But I think it's funny.
I think it's a pretty common tic among academics to refer to themselves as lazy while simultaneously doing Herculean amounts of work. I'm guessing her idea of 'casual research' is actually more like many authors' heavy research (especially given just how meticulous The Goblin Emperor is).I haven't finished the podcast yet, but so far the conversation has convinced me I need to check our her series under her own name.
Also if you're inclined that way research like that ("i wonder what courtly life in tsarist russia was like?") doesn't even feel like work, just natural curiosity.
I feel a bit bad about putting her on the spot about future works. :( I was under the impression that authors get exasperated by the question "will there be another x" but almost always wanted to talk about their latest thing. I guess we don't talk very much about authors who choose to stop writing for whatever reason.
Robyn wrote: "I haven't finished the podcast yet, but so far the conversation has convinced me I need to check our her series under her own name. "The books she does with Elizabeth Bear are really good too. That's the Iskyrne World series.
The Doctrine of Labyrinths (her standalone series that she talked about on the podcast) are quite hard to get except as ebooks.
I would read her world-building magnum opus if it were along the lines of The Silmarillion or fill-in-the-blank RPG guidebooks.Imagine if she did the bible for a world and other authors played in the sandbox.
Saying there was no magic because she didn't want to do the research sounded like a lame argument to me.
I loved the interview. It was one of my favorite podcast in sometime. I found her to be very funny and easy to relate to. On her website she discloses more about her medical issues. Hope she can get some normalcy back and get better.
Wish there was a sequel. :(
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On her website she discloses more about her medical issues. Hope she ..."
Where on her site? Can't find anything.
It's buried fairly far back on her livejournal - I don't think she'd mind disclosing that essentially she's struggling with sleep issues & related fatigue (and had a severe broken ankle) since she wrote about it in a public venue (at least, I hope not!). I think that sort of thing would be so hard for people in creative positions, which are so dependent on mental clarity.
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