Post by Cate on Oct 10, 2004 16:18:26 GMT -5
Guess what?!?
GM is writing a sequel to WICKED!
*dances* Yes. He announced it himself on the "Barnes and Nobles University" discussion of WICKED.
How excited am I?
Edit: Taken from B&N U
After ten years, i'm writing a sequel.
The success of the musical made me go back and look at the novel again. i was happy with how many threads were left unwoven or questions unanswered, because the Witch's
story ends in an abbreviated fashion--which makes it a tragedy. (I trust this is not a spoiler but I'm not giving everything away in case you haven't finished reading the book.) If someone dies cozy and old in bed with a glass of cognac by their side and their family gently weeping around them... well, it's sad but it's not a TRAGEDY. what makes the death or dismemberment of someone YOUNG or in middle age is the fact that so many questions MUST go unanswered... i buried a friend last week, a writer, a mother of a three year old, someone who passionately was working to defeat Bush in the next election, someone who worked for the poor and indigent even though she wasn't healthy or wealthy herself. She was 45. For her, the shape and nature of the tragedy of her early death has EVERYTHING to do with the strands in her own life that go unwoven into the fabric. Not knowing whether the homeless person on the corner would recover from pneumonia, not knowing whether Bush would be defeated, not knowing how her little girl would grow up, or even if she would be remembered. And that's why Elphaba's story has so many tragic aspects, and why we feel bereaved, (if we do) at the end. Or anyway that's what effect i was hoping for.
But ten years on, I'm over it, and I want to know: What happened to Princess Nastoya? To Nor? to Liir? To Shell? to Glinda? Etc. So today i wrote pp. 45 through 49. Look for it a year from now if i am lucky enough to finish it in time....
GM is writing a sequel to WICKED!
*dances* Yes. He announced it himself on the "Barnes and Nobles University" discussion of WICKED.
How excited am I?
Edit: Taken from B&N U
After ten years, i'm writing a sequel.
The success of the musical made me go back and look at the novel again. i was happy with how many threads were left unwoven or questions unanswered, because the Witch's
story ends in an abbreviated fashion--which makes it a tragedy. (I trust this is not a spoiler but I'm not giving everything away in case you haven't finished reading the book.) If someone dies cozy and old in bed with a glass of cognac by their side and their family gently weeping around them... well, it's sad but it's not a TRAGEDY. what makes the death or dismemberment of someone YOUNG or in middle age is the fact that so many questions MUST go unanswered... i buried a friend last week, a writer, a mother of a three year old, someone who passionately was working to defeat Bush in the next election, someone who worked for the poor and indigent even though she wasn't healthy or wealthy herself. She was 45. For her, the shape and nature of the tragedy of her early death has EVERYTHING to do with the strands in her own life that go unwoven into the fabric. Not knowing whether the homeless person on the corner would recover from pneumonia, not knowing whether Bush would be defeated, not knowing how her little girl would grow up, or even if she would be remembered. And that's why Elphaba's story has so many tragic aspects, and why we feel bereaved, (if we do) at the end. Or anyway that's what effect i was hoping for.
But ten years on, I'm over it, and I want to know: What happened to Princess Nastoya? To Nor? to Liir? To Shell? to Glinda? Etc. So today i wrote pp. 45 through 49. Look for it a year from now if i am lucky enough to finish it in time....
- Yero, the Wonder Winkie
- Dee, the Talented Tongue
Nor is my favourite character after Elphie of course 
