{"id":15471,"date":"2011-03-30T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2011\/03\/30\/theres-a-book-in-my-head\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:16","slug":"theres-a-book-in-my-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2011\/03\/30\/theres-a-book-in-my-head\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a book in my head!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday and Wednesday nights are “Writing Night”. For the past few months I’ve been doing research for a new novel, but as you’ll have gathered from my witterings here, I wasn’t feeling sure of it at all. The story just kept eluding me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Last night I finally got around to doing my research reading, and when I started I was seriously questioning the whole project. Maybe I should just focus on making blank books,<\/em> I thought, or zines. Or maybe I should just stop all this and just be a person for a while without thinking about creating things.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I kept reading, though, and by the time Craig got home from a work-related event in Thurso, my brain was sparking again.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This morning I woke up and the little cobbling elves of my subconscious had stitched together a whole story. Thank you cobbling mental elves!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

My confidence with this project so far has been like a tide — one that was mostly out to sea. So what’s different this morning? What is it about the package that arrived in my head that makes it feel different now?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The events in the book are a lot clearer, and that helps a lot. I’m looking at a period of history and specific government\/security structures and events, and I knew I couldn’t capture all of that (and wasn’t interested in writing about that aspect of it). So having a specific lens of action to look through is a big help.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What really swings it, though, is having characters<\/em>. I know who this book is about now. That makes it fun. That makes it possible to start.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

And thank Odin for that! My lower eyelids have been twitching for the past two weeks from what I can only assume has been the stress of constantly thinking about this project, or rather the vacuum that was there in place of it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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