In this personal blog I write about inspirational, spiritual or disturbing experiences that never found their way into my novels.
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This is a strange story. Three years ago, I moved from the Himalayas to Bangkok. I had lived in the mountains for nearly 7 years and was to embark upon a new journey. Part of that journey was to carry out research for a new novel that I wanted to write. As a working title, I chose “God of All Things Queer”, which I later changed into “Comrades of the Cut Sleeve”. After a few months of carrying out research in Bangkok, I thought I was ready to start writing my new fiction novel, but I couldn’t. I was surprised. Was this state of being called writer’s block? I decided to claim that I needed to do a little more research. Well, I have been “researching” my arse off. I must say, my initial plot changed over time and I realised I needed this time to get the plot right. I needed to meet people, experience a few more experiences until I was content with my new ideas for the plot. Though I haven’t been writing on the book every day, it has been my day job for the past three years, which mostly translates into “thinking about it”. I am confident that within the next year or so, there will be a new novel. I have written a number of chapters already,
In between writing chapters, I often feel this writer’s block getting to me. This is an unfamiliar feeling really, as I wrote each of my previous books within a timeframe of a few months. I am not alone in this. If you Google Writer’s block, you get more than 17 million hits.
So one day, when I had a “in between chapters writer’s block”, I decided to pick up my laptop and start writing something, anything. I was watching America’s Top Model on TV and there were two models. One was called Kiki, and another one Yaya. I created a story about an imaginary kingdom and called it the Kingdom of Kikiyaya. It took me two hours to create the document. Whenever I feel I am having a writer’s block I think of Kikiyaya. I think: “If I am able to create a kingdom, I can create a novel.”
Here’s the link to the kingdom of Kikiyaya. www.kikiyayakingdom.blogspot.com or click view profile.
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