[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: new book

Fri May 10 21:41:55 UTC 2002

Hello! Sorry I said anything about the book being late! I will NEVER mention anything like that on here again.
Just thought people might be interested, didnt really think anyone would freak out about it

On Fri, 10 May 2002 21:25:17 -0000 plinsenmayer <pennylin at swbell.net> wrote:

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 

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