tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post115495991608672625..comments2024-03-10T14:07:40.468-04:00Comments on Blue Rose Girls: This or theBlue Rose Girlshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05224076615462128422noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1155037106872463542006-08-08T07:38:00.000-04:002006-08-08T07:38:00.000-04:00Yes, we are (all crazy). For my Thomas Edison book...Yes, we are (all crazy). For my Thomas Edison book I did exactly the same sorts of things, poring over his notebooks and drawings (and spending money I didn't have to buy a book that contained his own recollections of his childhood, in his own words, even with his own spelling! I spent hours and hours looking at his patent drawings online, even though I couldn't understand the scientific details of any of them! I found a recording made at his INventing Factory (he and his inventors used to stay up working all night and somebody sometimes would play the banjo or piano and they'd all sing).<BR/><BR/>ANd in the end, no one bought the book. That is one of the other driven, irrational parts of this: you HAVE TO do your best, whether anyone ever publishes it or not.<BR/><BR/>I wonder sometimes if all the rewriting I do is "worth it" -- I've tried to stop myself from doing it but I can't. And maybe there is a rational reason for this: If I don't write something as well and vividly as I can, using the right words,the BEST words, for what I'm trying to say, what's the point? I might as well then (in Anna's wonderful phrase) "dress up in a suit a suit every day and be an accountant or something."Libby Koponenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01508041827996196293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1154999321409818262006-08-07T21:08:00.000-04:002006-08-07T21:08:00.000-04:00Um, yeah, I'm like that. Very nit picky about cert...Um, yeah, I'm like that. Very nit picky about certain things. The ones who suffer ARE ourselves! For example, In ALIENS I went way out of my way to find the EXACT Life mag. for the month of October in 1938 and then copied into my book in cartoon form (it's in the B&W diner scene if you look closely). Then for the police car scene I wanted to find out exactly what a NJ police uniform would have looked like. Of course my editor and designer thought I was nuts--a tight deadline and I was fussing with details that NO ONE would care about! But then again, I'm the one who will probably have the darn book on my bookshelf the longest. If I ever wanted to look at it again, I'd realized, I knew I had to get it right... even if no one else cared!<BR/><BR/>YES, we are all crazy. Thanks for pointing it out, Grace.<BR/><BR/>meghanMeghan McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05117528918335897128noreply@blogger.com