wearing the non-fiction hat

[lagilman]

So today, having cleared my decks of (almost) everything else, I can turn my attention to the revisions needed on the economics manuscript (yes, the book that sat in limbo for almost a year before reappearing, surprise suprise, in my in-box last weekish.).

Me writing about economics for third-graders, as has been pointed out elsewhere, is pretty much the perfect knowledge-to-audience ratio. But it's fun, not only because it allows me to get down and dirty with the research (I'm such a magpie when it comes to shiny new information), but because the act of writing for kids means that you're planting seeds that could sprout in any of a hundred ways, a dozen years from now.

Corrupting the minds of the next generation, one project at a time. *quiet glee*


The switch from fiction to non-fiction to fiction again is always an interesting one. I like to mix it up -- keeps the brain from getting stale, and allows me to look at stuff I've been doing from an entirely different angle, in a way that simply switching genres doesn't manage. Part of me keeps thinking "you should do more NF, you like it so."


And then, this morning I got a request for another non-fiction project, this one as a companion to something I had published last year. More on that as it happens.


Projects, like crocuses, are popping up all over. Gotta love it.

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[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

In twenty years, when you're in the Home for Aged Writers, some perky thirty-year-old will come up to you and thank you for your advice, and tell you how she's made millions based on it, and maybe buy you a cup of tea before zooming off in her air flitter.

That sort of thing happens to me.

Glad I could cheer up your day.