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mundungus42

A Gelsey Appreciation Post

Jun 05, 2020 21:08

A couple of years ago, in response to one of my Comic-Con reports about an amazing YA fantasy writer's panel, gelsey mentioned that she particularly loved one of the panelists, Maggie Stiefvater, and recommended her novel "The Scorpio Races" as a good place to start. I added it to my wish list and received it for my birthday. It took me a little bit to ( Read more... )

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septentrion1970 June 6 2020, 04:48:17 UTC

The Scorpio Races are amazing but I still haven't got to the Raven Boys. Might be what I need this summer.

mundungus42 June 6 2020, 23:41:37 UTC

The Raven Cycle feels much more contemporary in many ways, but it builds an equally compelling magic world inside of our own, and it goes to some wonderfully unexpected places! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

too_dle_oo June 6 2020, 10:34:27 UTC

THIS SOUNDS AMAZING AND I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU AND GO, GELSEY FOR THE RECOMMENDATION! Go get it, Mundungus! Finish that novel!

mundungus42 June 6 2020, 23:47:52 UTC

Oh my gosh, I don't know if she's planning to sell access to the content after the fact, but if so, I'm reccing it to anybody who wants to write commercial fiction, because it is clicking for me so very much!

AND I AM ONLY 12 VIDEOS (OF 26!!) IN!

I'm not even halfway through and I already feel better able to tackle that messy beast of a draft. Halle-freaking-lujah!

too_dle_oo June 6 2020, 23:50:32 UTC

For those of us who are curious, can we still get access somehow? It sounds like her take is quite helpful!

I’m going to poke around and see what I can find...

mundungus42 June 6 2020, 23:53:25 UTC

Right now, the only access is for people who paid for the content (largely honor system), but I will certainly encourage her to make the content more widely available for paid access, because it's truly amazing.

gelsey June 6 2020, 23:26:28 UTC

You are so welcome! I'm glad they arrived safe and sound. And also, I love to share her work and really hope I can meet her someday because she gave me the horse book I always wanted. I still need to finish the Raven cycle and catch up on her newest. Her writing class seems excellent! So glad it's going to help you so much.

mundungus42 June 6 2020, 23:51:58 UTC

They are awesome!!! Plus, having put them into two of my current reads, I find that instead of thinking "oh no, I really should finish those books," I think "Boy, those books are so pretty with the bookmarks in them, I'm going to play with them." *opens book and gets distracted by reading*

The workshop is truly spectacular. Once I finish, I hope to encourage her to make the workshop available for purchase outside the ticket window, because I know of at least three novel writers who are currently stuck and I think would greatly benefit from her process. I wish this was a slightly less busy month so I could dive into novel writing, but a big part of Maggie's process is doing as much in your head as possible before you even go into writing the story, so perhaps that's not such a bad thing. :D

The Raven Cycle repeatedly knocked me on my arse. It was not was I expected it to be because it was so much better.