This Sh*t is Bananas
As some of you may already know via the tweet feed, I’ve vastly exceeded the original plan of writing a book, and now the plan is to write seven books. This is not a joke. This is not an April Fool’s. This is really, seriously happening, and as each day passes, the rough ideas become more and more solid.
This is utterly terrifying and also exhilarating. I have never done something of this magnitude before, and instead of getting that scared feeling in the pit of my stomach, I’m instead coming at it, full force, night after night, jotting ideas down in meetings during the day, and writing pages and pages every night.
This isn’t exactly new, either. I realized, looking back, that I have been in a rut, creatively, for quite some time now. And it’s been almost a year since I realized that.
It’s funny how re-reading that post is so eerily familiar. It’s not like I really retained those thoughts, consciously. But they’ve been here all along, and naturally, the books I’m writing deal with these themes:
They show the reality of the author who, despite becoming the second woman ever to graduate from Manchester University – and in physics – believed in fairies all her life. “It’s an amazing paradox,” said Judd. “She believed in fairies and in time travel – that people can move in between different worlds. She was both a completely practical, scientific person, and would also talk about ghosts.”
But of course, it didn’t stop there. I didn’t have any sort of creative inspiration or ideas for a while. I had bits and pieces, but that was it. Obviously, the idea of writing a whole, real, entire book hadn’t quite hit me yet, but the fears of writing one had.
And now, all I want to do is talk about the characters and the plots, and the parts that have made me cry while writing it, but I can’t. Not yet. I can’t give it away before it’s done. I just hope that someone out there gets as much from reading this story as I did and do from writing it, but I don’t know if that’s possible.
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Hey Alex. Not surprised to hear about this flood of creativity. Sounds wonderful, and I can’t wait to read your books. I remember reading your fiction and enjoying it immensely.
Hugs.