Eddis, Attolia, Sounis

Hello! I’ve been an intermittent lurker here for a couple years, I guess, mostly I just silently drop by when I need a fix :)

I was introduced to MWT’s books (and this community too I think) by my sister who is mortalasabee back when the only one published was The Thief. Of maybe Queen was out but we didn’t know about it right away? Anyway, I have a very distinct memory of reading it in the car on a family vacation and that night trying to sneak out of the camper without getting caught. My sister caught me, of course, and said that after she’d read the book the first time she also spent lots of time sneaking around the house. We are nothing if not dedicated fans!

One of the best days of my life was the day Conspiracy came out. My sister and her best friend and I took the day off, went to a specialty grocery to stock up on fancy cheese and bread and olives, and sat outside, taking turns to read the chapters out loud. I’m not sure I’ve ever laughed so hard as when Ty got to the part where Sophos says “I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say, ‘We eat the chicken now!’”

So, yeah. That’s me as a fan. Beyond that my name is Rose, I’m somewhere in my upper 20s and live in the lovely midwestern USA.

Oh wait I’m not done talking about The Thief. Or myself. On my way up to a writing conference this summer I got the audiobooks, which I’d never listened to, and fell back in love with them as deeply as I’d ever been before, and spent most of my time not in workshops sitting in my car and listening, laughing, and even crying a couple times. The second night there I had a dream about two characters having an argument that, when I woke up, I thought was an upcoming scene from King that I’d just forgotten about, and later in the day realized was a scene I’d written myself several years ago in a fantasy story that never really got off the ground.

Since then I’ve gotten inspired to re-work that story because I realized that I failed the first time before because I didn’t like the style I was writing in, too high-fantasy-fake-Tolkien-BS, where what I really like to read is Megan Whalen Turner’s very spare but very precise style. So while my story is very different from hers, it’s been really helpful to me to keep the Queen’s Thief series in mind and try to emulate her style somewhat, because I think with fantasy it’s really easy to get overblown and long-winded.

So…with brevity in mind I’m going to stop talking. But I’m wondering if anyone else here is a writer, and/or planning to do NaNoWriMo this year? My handle over there is gentlest_sin and I’m always looking for new writing buddies :)

Be blessed in your endeavors! -Rose