[As for KmO, actually, I meant literally the voice, as in the word choices. I've been writing a much stuffier set of characters over the past year, and I need a bit of practice to get back into such heavy slang and random obscenities. Heh.]
Ah, gotcha! I know what you mean--once I'm finished working on a story, it sort of falls out of my head, and I forget large chunks of what I wrote and my voice for the POVs in that story.
I'm currently working on a new novel while doing PR for a book that was written about five years ago, and I've actually gone back and re-read portions of the published work to refresh my memory for the interviews I've been doing, and damned if I don't feel like someone else wrote large chunks of that book. The style and voice of the new novel are quite different from the deliberate echo of 17th-century prose rhythms I aimed for in the previous work.
Maybe I'm just weird.
(No worries about the screening--I'd actually intended to just post the first sentence, and then found myself rambling on...and on...and then about KmO... because I'm having a boring afternoon at work, but I'm too tired to open a Word file and tackle the next scene of my novel.)
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Date: 19 Nov 2009 11:54 pm (UTC)Ah, gotcha! I know what you mean--once I'm finished working on a story, it sort of falls out of my head, and I forget large chunks of what I wrote and my voice for the POVs in that story.
I'm currently working on a new novel while doing PR for a book that was written about five years ago, and I've actually gone back and re-read portions of the published work to refresh my memory for the interviews I've been doing, and damned if I don't feel like someone else wrote large chunks of that book. The style and voice of the new novel are quite different from the deliberate echo of 17th-century prose rhythms I aimed for in the previous work.
Maybe I'm just weird.
(No worries about the screening--I'd actually intended to just post the first sentence, and then found myself rambling on...and on...and then about KmO... because I'm having a boring afternoon at work, but I'm too tired to open a Word file and tackle the next scene of my novel.)