back in the fray

[mrissa]

It is interesting writing The True Tale of Carter Hall so that the hockey fans should go, "Hmm, something's not right here," and the mythology geeks should go, "Hmm, something's not right here," and the mythology geeks who are also hockey fans should be going, "OH NOES OH NOES RUN AWAY RUN AWAY!!!" I will be interested to see how well I nail that balance in the first draft or whether it needs tweaking in one direction or another.

Anyway Carter got to punch the fella in the ear and force him down on the ice when he crashed the net, so everybody is satisfied, where by "everybody" I mean me, Carter, Coach Laird, and Honor Itself.

Also I have the last of my post-Christmas sale purchases, which is a red sweater with white snowflakey bits, which is honestly how I look in my own head. Native garb and all that.

So it's afternoon now? Huh.

Comments

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

As both a hockey and mythology geek, I am really looking forward to reading The True Tale of Carter Hall when you're ready to give it to readers.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I will take you up on that.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I am not a hockey fan, so I am waiting to be converted.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that it doesn't require conversion any more than War for the Oaks required everybody to move to Mpls. But we'll see how I do.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

It didn't? Dang.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I don't know that any story would cause me to convert to hockey fandom outright, but it might give me a fondness for it. And that would be no bad thing.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No, you have to take responsibility for that one yourself.

Okay, okay, various and sundry among us will help shoulder that burden.

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

omg. Montreal and I are both really big fans of both. I would LOVE to read it when you are wanting to share. Because your entry made me bounce and I had to read it out loud to Montreal, that sentence.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I've sent you the short stories, yes?

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

Reading your posts about this book make me want to understand hockey, but I am sadly not any of those three geeks.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's okay, though, because the hockey players are not mythology geeks, so they have to find out what's going on, and the readers are presumed not to be hockey geeks, so they have to find out what's going on, too.

[redbird]

I am oddly pleased to know that there is someone for whom that sort of sweater with snowflakey bits feels right, like their native garb. In the catalogs they always look like something that would be given as a Christmas gift and not worn after New Year's, not even the following Christmas.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Snowflakes last quite awhile around here.

[redbird]

Most of our snow is in January and February. The sweaters have seemed otherwise.