It made me tear up in joy and gratitude to be still in the writing process myself, but also for you, knowing you made your magic and it's out in the world finding its home xx
It's funny, because in the times I've taken a step back from my writing my own novel (a 3/4 month period while I finished a personal trainer qualification, after the first draft, after the second draft etc) it's like my brain decides that I have given it permission to take one of the ideas I had simmering on a back burner off and brings it to the forefront and I need to clear it out and write it down in order for it to leave me alone. It might be mostly because my other ideas involve characters from my main novel (the one I'm drafting for the third time) and so I still get to play within this world I created and don't have to say goodbye to it just yet. We'll see if I have a different relationship to finishing when all the ideas are in novel form!
Thanks for sharing Sophie, this is so interesting. It is like your novel is offering you interesting ways back in almost. I love it! I love, also, that your characters from your novel are inhabiting various projects.
I'm a romance writer who put 4 single people into one novel, focused on one gave her a happy ending and then one day my brain went 'but don't the other three deserve their happily ever afters too' and now here I am!
Thank you for this beautiful piece, Susannah. Really helps me. And the cacao tip ; )
I am so happy to hear that it helped, Linda! And enjoy those cacaos :)
Loved this.
It made me tear up in joy and gratitude to be still in the writing process myself, but also for you, knowing you made your magic and it's out in the world finding its home xx
Thank you so much Lauren, you are the sweetest!
It's funny, because in the times I've taken a step back from my writing my own novel (a 3/4 month period while I finished a personal trainer qualification, after the first draft, after the second draft etc) it's like my brain decides that I have given it permission to take one of the ideas I had simmering on a back burner off and brings it to the forefront and I need to clear it out and write it down in order for it to leave me alone. It might be mostly because my other ideas involve characters from my main novel (the one I'm drafting for the third time) and so I still get to play within this world I created and don't have to say goodbye to it just yet. We'll see if I have a different relationship to finishing when all the ideas are in novel form!
Thanks for sharing Sophie, this is so interesting. It is like your novel is offering you interesting ways back in almost. I love it! I love, also, that your characters from your novel are inhabiting various projects.
I'm a romance writer who put 4 single people into one novel, focused on one gave her a happy ending and then one day my brain went 'but don't the other three deserve their happily ever afters too' and now here I am!
I love this so much! Will it be a series?
This is the hope!
Such a great idea! Good luck with it.
Thanks! And I hope your novel finds its home!
Very thought provoking. Thank you. Our relationship with grief is very complex.
Thanks for reading, Sarah. And you are so right about our relationship with grief!