Justine Larbalestier

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Lost in your book

My job means that I spend many hours each day lost in the novel I’m writing. It’s a very weird way to make a living. When I have a looming deadline—like I do right now—and have to drop everything but finishing said novel I feel like I get further and further away from real world and more and more lost in the imaginary one. Talking to real people in the real world gets trickier and trickier.

I was thinking about this today and decided that it’s no co-incidence that “novel” and “navel” have only one letter different. No co-incidence at all.

Now I return to imaginary world.

Posted by Justine at 10:56, 29 June 2008 under Liar, Writing life | 11 Comments »

Comments

  1. sherwood Says:

    Hooo yeah. Once I lost six weeks.

    June 29th, 2008 at 11:56 AM

  2. Rosalie Says:

    I love you. you’re crazy.

    June 29th, 2008 at 12:53 PM

  3. Patrick Says:

    Are you sitting around ‘Novel Gazing’?

    June 29th, 2008 at 12:56 PM

  4. Leahr Says:

    The word you’re looking for is omphalokepsis.

    And the title of your post reminds me of Jasper Fforde’s Lost in a Good Book. You have to read the one before it to get it though- part of the Thursday Next series. Great stuff.

    Good luck with your book, whatever it may be called. I want to read it already!

    June 29th, 2008 at 3:36 PM

  5. emily Says:

    me thinks this is the sign of a good book :D

    June 29th, 2008 at 5:43 PM

  6. serafina zane Says:

    I think I’m kind of like that now. Thought i don’t have the excuse of a deadline, i’m just becoming sort of obsessed with my vampire punks, and finding it impossible to write anything else, even if the timeline is screwed-up and it’s all very confusing and difficult. The characters are just so fun though.
    *wanders off aimlessly muttering about genre*

    good luck with your imaginary world.

    oh dear. now i’ve got to go write the funeral. or the death scene.

    June 29th, 2008 at 7:07 PM

  7. Melinda Says:

    What? There’s a real world?

    June 29th, 2008 at 8:42 PM

  8. rebecca Says:

    i’m always living in my imaginary worlds.

    June 30th, 2008 at 2:38 AM

  9. atthecross Says:

    yeah there’s got to be a medical diagnosis for that… oh yeah it’s called “writer-itis”. it only gets harder when you’re writing multiple stories, each in its own world(s)… my sister and i, who both write in that crazy manner, sometimes will go for weeks without uttering more than a few vague sentences to each other, except arguing over who gets the computer when. :)

    June 30th, 2008 at 11:10 AM

  10. sir tessa Says:

    XD

    July 2nd, 2008 at 7:51 AM

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