[HPforGrownups] (unknown)

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 921



Belinda Susan Rodrigues wrote:

BTW, Peg, are you the same Peg Kerr who wrote The Wild

> Swans?
>
> Thena

Yes, I am.  I have not been writing much lately.  I spent a year being
obsessed with Jane Austen, and now I'm obsessed with Harry Potter.
Obsession with other people's ficiton puts a cramp in my own writing.  I did
start on a sequel to Emerald House Rising, but although it seemed pretty
good to me, I got stuck on page 65, and so I've abandoned it for the time
being.

I started reading the HP books because my mother-in-law sent a copy of the
first to my daughter for her birthday.  I started studying Rowling
obsessively because she's a fantasy writer, like me, and I like what she has
to say about her creative process.  I listened to an interview in which she
was asked "did you write your books for kids or for adults?" and she replied
"I wrote them for myself.  I wanted to write something that I would enjoy
reading."  I like that answer, and I think it's part of the reason she seems
so centered.

I guess I haven't been writing much lately because I have been enjoying
reading . . . other people's fiction.  Plus, The Wild Swans really burned me
out.  As voicelady indicated, it's a pretty emotional book.

Not to mention that I have a full time job and two young kids.  Ack.

I've thought about writing fan fiction, and I'm sure I would enjoy it and
would be pretty good at it, but I think I won't because if I have time and
the urge to write, I'd be better off prioritizing my time professionally by
trying to get my own stuff off the ground.  Somehow.  *Sigh*

I will write again.  Someday.

Peg