Hassus

So, it’s been more than half a year since I left the final punctuation mark on Cold Mountain and since then my digestion of it has continued and deepened. I am not being whimsical when I claim that the writing process sort of felt out of my hands; ironically perhaps, my early decision of making the fictional world a clear reflection of my own inner world resulted in me having to go deeper and deeper into myself in order to keep writing it, only to one day find myself so deeply in that all sense of control had vanished. The writing process changed from hours and hours of careful planning to jumping head-first into it on the heels of my intuition. In the middle of the 8 years that it took to complete Cold Mountain there was a 4 year gap between chapter 23 and 24. One could imagine that this was due to a lack of interest on my part but that would be unbelievably wrong. I was tied to the story and the story was tied to me. No, I had simply had enough of the tragedies. I needed something

After more than 8 years, Cold Mountain is finally complete! Now I need to spend another 8 years figuring out what it all means :)Cheers!

Sigh.