My career has taken off in ways that I never anticipated-obviously I dreamed of, but never anticipated. I’ve had a huge number of personal and professional changes. In that period of time, the world has obviously changed a huge amount, but I’ve also moved to a foreign country. Here’s the thing: books are static and creators are not.Īnd so, coming back to a book, a series, a world five years later, I’ve changed a lot. So I didn’t actively get to start writing Vengeful until Conjuring of Light hit shelves. So I knew that Vengeful was going to be my next adult project after Conjuring, but I also still had Conjuring of Light to finish.
So it was two years when I was told that I could write Vengeful, but it wasn’t when I actually got to sit down and write it, because Tor said “you can do Vengeful after A Conjuring. Vicious was first released in 2013, and then you had about two years before you were really to start on Vengeful.Īnd, you have to remember that entire Shades of Magic series came between Vicious and Vengeful. So it’s a very small thing that really helps me establish a nice low baseline for my stress and anxiety levels. And so by also having that for breakfast when I’m on the road, it helps start my day with a little piece of normalcy. So one of the things that I do-it sounds so small and so silly-is that I keep a jar of peanut butter with me, because I eat peanut butter and banana for breakfast when I’m home. I do little things for anxiety, though, because I also have anxiety. I’m very lucky if I do 10 minutes of yoga on my hotel room floor at the end of the day. So I mostly focused on self-care, to be honest. So I end up with these 20- to 30-minute windows, which you’re like, yay, that’s great for Pomodoro, but time and energy are not the same thing. I need a little bit of time to get in and out of that headspace, and there’s no time for it. I can do a lot of thinking, I can do a lot of note taking, but I don’t do any active drafting while on tour. One, I’ve accepted I don’t really write very much on the road. I’m just also a huge introvert, and I feel like I need to go home and be very quiet for a week and just recharge my batteries.ĭo you have any tricks that you use when you’re on the road to protect your sanity, or your creative process? Starting from like, 20 percent…but I mean it’s an embarrassment of riches, it has been such an amazing tour. I think Comic Con is exhausting when you’re starting from 100 percent battery. Schwab’s first 2018 release, the dark middle grade tale City of Ghosts, released in August, and her third release of this year, the Shades of Magic comic book spinoff series The Steel Prince, releasing this week.Įxhausting.
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