Head in the Clouds
Big-Ass Revision, Part 2
Oh man, this novel project has it in for me.
It’s teaching me about the tricky interface between daily life and imagination. How conflicting it is to move between the two!
Writing short stories for the past ten years, I’ve forgotten how to cultivate long, super-deep spaces of creating—where I can sink into a dream world. My short works could be tackled in two-hour chunks. I avoided my novel, or just attacked it in spurts, because “I didn’t have the time.” (You’ve never heard that before—and of course you’ve never said it, right?)
