Lisa
Magic of everyday life
Rick
Literature of the imagination
Lisa is very close to magic realism
Micky (Roessner) - we can write what we want in speculative fiction
Pat - fascinated with gateways that take u to fantasy world
Science - you are figuring out diff portals
Pat advice earlier during the break about advising writers how to find an ending - it's usually already there in the story.
Example - when she read this story last year, she did not know last
year that rocky would be so important
Lisa - it is really fun writing - although perspective about stuff no
one has seen before
Rick asks Pat - You are describing stuff the reader has never seen
She does not know if it is a fantasy element or not
If 3rd person the author is telling you what happened.
But in 1st the char is telling you what is happening
Pat: This story would be different if read in the New Yorker.
The viewer/reader completes the Story
I write the words but you complete it says Pat.
Michaela - 2 nd person has Creepy quality to it
Michaela's next novel is 1st person
Extrapolating but no wonder.
Pat talks about "The Woman in the Trees" (from Points of Departure ) which was in 2nd
person.
Workshop said it should not be in 2nd person, but she left it there because she did
not want reader to be able to escape
Pat brings up conversation I started or at least contributed to, at the break about fairy tales.
(Brought up the Book of Lost Things by John Connolly).
Pat points out her fascination with Peter pan and her story on her
site called peter
I find it really interesting to look at fairy tales, says Lisa, who wrote a
story called Ever After.
Lisa brings up her fairy tale research
Rick - science fiction takes us back to the ability to look at the
world for the first time.
Transformative view of the world...
Ellen question
Where does fantasy go ?
They say speculative fiction can be everything
Ellen says what about the bar fight? (regarding what is fantasy, what is "hard science fiction", and what is speculative fiction).
The Hussies basically agree that they don't want to get into the bar fight.
Pat says -I choose not to fight - it's all marketing.
It is in the eye of the heholder...someone might see Pat's story as speculative, another might see it as completely realistic.
But that is what is great about YA - you see all the genres mixed together on the same shelf
Rick - we are all just looking for a decent book to read.
Michaela and Pat (and Ellen! and also Lisa!):
We love research!
Lisa is also a research junkie.
Question about the Bart train now going to Millbrae....
Being in the shape of an aleph for Dark Cities Underground.
But she is sad now it goes to Millbrae and therefore no longer in that shape.
Ellen question: Do you feel like writing sometimes feels like homework
Because research is so much fun?
Pat example of research getting carried away - In Clan of the Cave Bear, character stopped in the
middle of a chase scene to talk about basket weaving.
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