[HPFGU-OTChatter] new book

[Bernadette M. Crumb]

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From: "Melissa Critelli" <mcritelli at mindspring.com>
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Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 2:18 PM
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] new book


> I found out why HP #5 will NOT be out until next year.
> Apparantly JK hasnt even finished half of the book yet!
> WHAT IS SHE DOING WITH HER TIME, I ask you?
> She said that this book is proving much harder to composed then
the other four, could this be writers block?

Have you ever tried to write a full length novel?  How about a
GOOD full length novel?  How about a GOOD full length novel that
is probably going to be read by some of the most critical people
on the face of the earth?

If she has writer's block, well, damn... it happens... That's why
I only have six chapters of my own Magnum Opus done so far--and I
don't have half the pressures on me that JKR has on her.  Her
publishers are saying that she is currently writing OOP.  So what
if she's only halfway done with it so far.  Good grief.  I'm sure
she could get it finished really fast "if she tried" and nine
times out of ten, it would probably be crap.  I'm anxious to read
what happens next to Harry and company, but I am certainly not so
impatient that I want JKR to produce an inferior product.  If she
needs another six months or a year to get it "right" then that's
fine with me.

Besides, professional writer or not, she has a LIFE, a husband, a
daughter... a home to deal with... she has to deal with the
public and all the garbage that being famous brings to her.
There are going to be days when she'll be lucky to get even two
double spaced pages typed out because of all the other demands on
her time.  I'm friends with another fantasy author and between
what I've seen with her experiences, and my own writing
experience, you can't treat writing a novel the same way that you
treat a car being built on an assembly line.  it doesn't work
that way.

For the love of Mike, people, give the woman a break and be
patient!  If she ends up with a nervous breakdown because of the
stress we'll never get years five, six and seven...

Sorry to sound snappish, but I am SOOOOO sick of the wailing I'm
hearing about the novel's delay.  What's one more year?  I've
waited over 15 years for a book to come out from one of my
favorite authors  and over a decade for another... and they were
both worth the wait!  Have faith in JKR and cultivate patience...
OOP will be worth the wait too.

Bernadette

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survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value
to survival."
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