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.
Hooo yeah. Once I lost six weeks.
I love you. you’re crazy.
Are you sitting around ‘Novel Gazing’?
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!
me thinks this is the sign of a good book 😀
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.
What? There’s a real world?
i’m always living in my imaginary worlds.
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. 🙂
XD