Cafe Pergolesi is an awesome place to write, even though it seems to cater to a younger crowd than I'm used to, unless I am teaching them. I'm at 22,000 words with The Pleasure Palace and, as I said in my last post, am weaving so many wonderful threads into this novel. It is going to need a huge amount of editing and rewriting after Nano is done--I'll probably end up handwriting the whole thing over, then rework it on the computer, but still, this has been truly a huge amount of fun. There's a joyful aspect of creativity that I think sometimes gets lost in the struggle to be published and get one's work out in the world, and that's a tremendously good thing to discover. I've decided that all my characters, though contemporary, are like Victorians on subtle levels (this because I am reading The French Lieutenant's Woman before bed every night and am thinking a lot about that sensibility).
Time to upload words and get to bed on this moonless night. Anticipating that next year's nano will be a horror novel, and not about killer zombie pirates, either. But that's for 2010.
G'nite.
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