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Once you start writing, nothing is given. You may
believe that you’ve got it all planned but the surprises will keep coming.
There weren’t few the times I went to sleep thinking how the next chapter will
be and when I was waking up, a totally new chapter had formed for me to write. I
see my novels like separate entities, like living things that form their own
destiny and frankly, many times they do. It happens to write and the story magically
takes another turn than the one I wanted and I just follow it.
The same happens when I am stuck. I don’t like to
press things. It’s like when you scold the dog because he pooped on the carpet
and by yelling at him all you manage is just to do it again. I don’t want my
novel to be filled with poops as much as I don’t want my carpet to be. So, when
I am not in the mood, or when I have to press myself in order to write…I just don’t.
I do other things and I just take the time I need to continue the story. This
has worked very well for me because every time I write something better than
the one I would have wrote if I was fighting to put words on my manuscript.
I believe that knowing where to stop and where to
insist is crucial. You need to be relaxed and let your imagination travels you
to places you’d never knew they existed. If it doesn’t come to you one day…just
leave it. If you head is ready to explode and everything is terribly wrong and
you hate it…just leave it. The next day when you will be relaxed and calm it
will come to you ready and perfect and that is the moment you must grab it by
the hair and not let go. Write with your soul and not your mind and that will
be your best writing.
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