![]() ![]() You sense the idea, but then it might leave you alone for a bit. When the idea for the next book arrives in your head, it’s a bit like that. I read recently about a bug known as the giraffe assassin bug, which preys on spiders – but instead of pouncing on them immediately, it breaks the threads of the spider’s web, and holds the ends still in position, while the spider goes about its business unaware anything is wrong. With the second one, not so much.īut if the first idea was a mugging, the second was a much slower and more insidious takeover of my faculties – a slow but careful identity theft, maybe. With my first book, The Last Day, I can remember the exact street corner I was on when the idea of our world hanging motionless in space, locked with the sun, arrived in my brain. Douglas Adams always told the excellent story that he came up with the idea for the Hitchhiker’s Guide while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck. What a let-down, right? Not only a let-down, but a total failure in terms of having a friendly, relatable anecdote to slap onto the front of the book and win readers round. Here’s a confession to start with: I don’t remember where I was when I came up with the idea for The Sanctuary. ![]() National Emerging Writer Programme Overview. ![]()
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