new book

[plinsenmayer]

Hi all --

Bernadette wisely said:
 
> 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.

I couldn't agree more.  I know she's undoubtedly been feeling some
"external edge of pressure" as she mentioned in a post-GoF interview,
and that sounds perfectly reasonable to me.  If I had *millions* of
people waiting with bated breath for my next novel, *I'd* be a bit
stressed too.  I'd also want to be sure it was the best product it
could be & that I was as happy with it as I wanted to be.  And, as an
avid fan, I want it to be the best it can be.  I don't want to harp on
the problems with GoF, but it really does have more inconsistencies
than the other 3 books (and of course, there's the Wand Order
debacle).   If it requires more time to get it right, then she should
take all the time she needs (likewise, I hope the publishers won't
unduly rush the editors).
> 
> 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.

Yep.  I'm ...er...*trying* to be a professional writer.  Since having
a baby, I'm *far* less productive.  Right, Nancy?!  <g>

> 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.

I agree with this too.  Been waiting on Robert Caro's latest
installment in his multi-volume biography of LBJ since *1991* & it
just came out.  I used to wonder why it took him 10 yrs to write each
volume, and having spent some time researching a biography subject
myself, I can *completely* understand why it would take so long.  So
far, the latest Caro was worth the wait.  I have faith OOP will be too.  

Penny