steampunksong - The Monday Morning Memo

“This novel was supposed to be easy, but it turned out not to be. Moozh complicated everything, and yet made it all worth doing. During the long struggle to make Moozh and the rest of the story fit together, I imagine that I was barely tolerable to live with, but still my wife, Kristine, and our children, Geoffrey, Emily, and Charlie Ben, were willing to keep me around; it is the joy of my life to find them always around me when I surface from immersion in my work.”

- Orson Scott Card, The Call of Earth, from the final paragraph of the Acknowledgments. Card's comment about immersion resonated with me because I have long described writing to be like descending slowly into the depths of the sea, like a deep-sea diver who loses all contact with the world above, and who must ascend very carefully from the depths when he is done.

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