Word Bard

Every three months or so, the boys and I remember with fondness the day I found the best novel we have ever read or the day we started reading it aloud. Or the day it dawned on us that it was THE best novel we have ever read.  I think much of this happened on the same day, but yet we remember it as if it was a long exhalation of days. We re-chew the juicy bits a long while, then one of us finally asks, “ I wonder when the next one is coming out?” 

The book is The Name of the Wind and the author is P. Rothfuss.

Read it aloud. Its lyrical.

two cover printings, same book

Well this time around we actually did some checking on the next book and found this blog post by Pat Rothfuss, writer and word bard.  This seems a fair place to let you know that Mr. Rothfuss is an imaginative curser while blogging. If you do not appreciate cursing, even the imaginative kind you will have to skip his post. That’s too bad. His fertile curse-smithing is a giggle and a slap. If you read his post you will gain, not only insight into how a writer works but also into the creative process itself. Not just writing, but anything creative. Someday I am going to get the type of emails this guy gets — The disgruntled fan kind — and when I do I am going to defer to this post because even though he writes and I make digital art the proper frame of mind to produce creatively is the same. The distractions are many and expectations are high.

Whoever said you can’t rush genius, was a genius!

Oh, one of my favorite blogs did a snippet review of The Name of the Wind a while back. If you are reader you will enjoy the 10Thirty Blog for more than just a short visit.

Update 2011

Wise Man’s Fear ( book 2) is out.

Hugs Scrap Sistahs!