Comments on: Reinvention http://www.petervbrett.com/2009/05/24/reinvention/ Official Site of Peter V Brett, Author Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:28:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Myke http://www.petervbrett.com/2009/05/24/reinvention/comment-page-1/#comment-4298 Myke Tue, 26 May 2009 21:28:49 +0000 http://www.petervbrett.com/?p=1606#comment-4298 Well, I hope Future You gets around to it eventually. Snowcrest is a great book. It deserves to be read. It'll take a lot of work to fix it or fix its predecessor to the point where it can support a Book II. But anything in life worth doing is worth the hard work involved. You know that better than anyone. When Future You needs a kick in the ass to get going on that project, you know I'll be here. P.S. Tia - My sincere thanks for your decision to serve in the Air Force. Happy belated memorial day and I hope you'll continue to aim high. Well, I hope Future You gets around to it eventually. Snowcrest is a great book. It deserves to be read. It’ll take a lot of work to fix it or fix its predecessor to the point where it can support a Book II.

But anything in life worth doing is worth the hard work involved. You know that better than anyone.

When Future You needs a kick in the ass to get going on that project, you know I’ll be here.

P.S. Tia – My sincere thanks for your decision to serve in the Air Force. Happy belated memorial day and I hope you’ll continue to aim high.

]]> By: Tia Nevitt http://www.petervbrett.com/2009/05/24/reinvention/comment-page-1/#comment-4295 Tia Nevitt Mon, 25 May 2009 09:30:04 +0000 http://www.petervbrett.com/?p=1606#comment-4295 You now have name recognition. Could you go through your previous books and lift out any storylines as short stories or novellas? I bet you could sell them. I think all writers have a similar story. I spent about twelve years on my first novel which, since it turned out to be 230,000 words, could probably be considered more than one novel. Parts of it I love, but I consider it my training novel. Everyone in an occupation goes through a journeyman period, and writing is so solitary that we must be our own training masters. Re: reinvention. I did the same thing by joining the Air Force. It was the last thing my upper-middle-class parents expected me to do. I didn't turn out to be a different person, of course, but neither did I have all the baggage that I felt was weighing me down from my childhood. You now have name recognition. Could you go through your previous books and lift out any storylines as short stories or novellas? I bet you could sell them.

I think all writers have a similar story. I spent about twelve years on my first novel which, since it turned out to be 230,000 words, could probably be considered more than one novel. Parts of it I love, but I consider it my training novel. Everyone in an occupation goes through a journeyman period, and writing is so solitary that we must be our own training masters.

Re: reinvention. I did the same thing by joining the Air Force. It was the last thing my upper-middle-class parents expected me to do. I didn’t turn out to be a different person, of course, but neither did I have all the baggage that I felt was weighing me down from my childhood.

]]> By: Chantal http://www.petervbrett.com/2009/05/24/reinvention/comment-page-1/#comment-4294 Chantal Mon, 25 May 2009 08:44:52 +0000 http://www.petervbrett.com/?p=1606#comment-4294 I'm sort of in the same position, I completed two novels out of a trilogy then moved onto a new [better] story. I keep telling myself that when I'm older and more mature as a writer I'll go back to that trilogy and rewrite, but I do keep finding myself "borrowing" themes (and a few names) from the old trilogy. I’m sort of in the same position, I completed two novels out of a trilogy then moved onto a new [better] story. I keep telling myself that when I’m older and more mature as a writer I’ll go back to that trilogy and rewrite, but I do keep finding myself “borrowing” themes (and a few names) from the old trilogy.

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