Dying is Easy. Comedy is Hard.
It's an old adage. Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.
Unless you go in your sleep, I don't know how easy dying is. But comedy is DEFINITELY hard.
I am knee-deep in writing INVISIBLE GIRL, due out next June, and even as I am readying to turn it in to my editor, it's still growing and morphing because it's such a complex book with so many layers. But at least it's not comedy.
Every time I finish a comedic novel, I am always so grateful to have a break from trying to write about real life only funnier. It's like every argument you've ever been in, every snappy one-liner you just WISH you had thought of--and then trying to convey that. It's hard. It's especially hard when life isn't funny but your novel needs to be.
So though Invisible Girl is dark and sad and has an epic tragedy of a mother and daughter, in some ways, it's a relief.
No death wishes here.
But a break from comedy is nice.
Unless you go in your sleep, I don't know how easy dying is. But comedy is DEFINITELY hard.
I am knee-deep in writing INVISIBLE GIRL, due out next June, and even as I am readying to turn it in to my editor, it's still growing and morphing because it's such a complex book with so many layers. But at least it's not comedy.
Every time I finish a comedic novel, I am always so grateful to have a break from trying to write about real life only funnier. It's like every argument you've ever been in, every snappy one-liner you just WISH you had thought of--and then trying to convey that. It's hard. It's especially hard when life isn't funny but your novel needs to be.
So though Invisible Girl is dark and sad and has an epic tragedy of a mother and daughter, in some ways, it's a relief.
No death wishes here.
But a break from comedy is nice.
posted by Erica Orloff at 10:17 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Erica, MP here! Is IG going to be an RDI?
Hi MP:
No . . . Invisible Girl is a MIRA, which is really the only place I could write something so dark, I think, at my publishing house. It's not a straight thriller or suspense, either, but has an intense family drama as part of it. Very layered. The fmaily stuff is a huge part of (elements of a book like Joy Luck Club), and then there's the thriller part of it.
Hope your writing is going well!
E
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