I was wowed by all the amazing authors I got to meet especially absolute icons Lois Lowry(!) and Kate DiCamillo(!) and talk with them about process and craft and trade weird publishing stories. It was truly and honor to be nominated for the YA Book Prize alongside brilliant authors and congrats to for her well deserved win!īig ❤️ to my lil sis for being my cheerleader, photographer & mischief companion. #samiraahmed #revolutionarygirls #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #bookstagram #authorlife #amwriting #amrevising #yalit #youngadultbooks. There’s something a bit surreal about how time stretches and compressed when you’re writing a novel, a matryoshka doll of discovery and shrinking permutations that eventually gets you to the core.Īnyone else feel this way about working with time?Ībout constructing time even as we know the time we live in is a construct?Īnyway, almost there. And you’re writing all of that in the linear time in which we live, in which there are publishing deadlines and also just life, quotidian necessities and surprises. Books often take place over days or weeks, maybe even months but there are skips and steps backward and loops. Time is complex and layered when you’re writing a novel. Just turned in an (almost, maybe) penultimate draft of Book 7 and phew this one has been an ultramarathon and I’m about to enter the all out sprint to the end.
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