BookSweetie
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Nancy Springer:
I wish I had dozens more to read. I'm interested in how long it takes you to get a good first draft done -- and if you find yourself having to do a lot or a little rewriting? Also, did the first in the series take longer to write than the subsequent books? Did any of the books "write themselves" much more quickly or more slowly than the others?
Nancy Springer
Kristine, after writing fifty books, I don't take more than a few months to do a first draft, and I take pains to nail it as close to a final draft as I can; the less rewriting the better.
As for specifics about the Enola Holmes series, I don't remember exactly how long it took to write any of them, and I guess I'd rather not know. They were challenging and sometimes enormously painful, rather like childbirth, and my recollection is quite blurry. None of them "wrote themselves" yet they all wrote themselves because that's the way I write. What made them difficult was parameters: 1888 London, dark, three plots (finding missing person, seeking Mom, evading Sherlock), feminist, show Sherlock how it's done, and a new code or cipher in each one. !!! Plus all that research. Insane!!
But now I'm ready to try again....
As for specifics about the Enola Holmes series, I don't remember exactly how long it took to write any of them, and I guess I'd rather not know. They were challenging and sometimes enormously painful, rather like childbirth, and my recollection is quite blurry. None of them "wrote themselves" yet they all wrote themselves because that's the way I write. What made them difficult was parameters: 1888 London, dark, three plots (finding missing person, seeking Mom, evading Sherlock), feminist, show Sherlock how it's done, and a new code or cipher in each one. !!! Plus all that research. Insane!!
But now I'm ready to try again....
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Bethany Swafford
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Nancy Springer:
I'm intrigued and thrilled about the prospect of more Enola! There are two things I'm most curious about. First of all, I know she and Mycroft had mended the fences between them, so to speak, but will there be other disagreements between the siblings as Enola continues to grow? Second, will we see Lady Cecily return?
Ninedaysaqueen
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Nancy Springer:
Thank you so much for deciding to continue Enola Holmes. I was delighted with the ending, but I recently re-read the series and was reminded of how much I missed Enola. Like Sherlock, I can't wait to see what she'll do next. Enola running away from her brothers and finding her mother was the overall plot of the six books. Will there be an overall plot connecting the books together in this continuation? Thank you!
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Feb 08, 2015 04:08PM