wearing the non-fiction hat
Mar. 16th, 2005 07:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanSo 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.
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.
