Cause you’re tired, your brain is totally somewhere else, you’re scrambled. So when I’m traveling a lot, it can be really hard to work. I like to have the full day, and really just go for it. If I know I have to be somewhere in like an hour or two, it would be hard for me to get into writing. The only thing that I really need when I’m writing, besides, a computer, is time. Thank god they made me keep writing.ĭo you have any writing rituals? Like, do you have to have a drink? Or does the room have to be a certain temperature? They would take chapters and when I started slowing down because I didn’t want to keep doing it, and thought it wasn’t worth it, they would both start bothering me and ask, what’s the next chapter? What happens next? So it was like, fine, I’ll keep writing. Luckily, my best friend and my dad were reading the book, as I was writing it. So if it didn’t work out, then what did I go to school for? I was just going to toss it all away.Īnd there were definitely moments when I didn’t know how to write a book, I didn’t know if it was good or bad, and I thought, what if it’s terrible, what if it’s garbage? Part of it was, I had made this choice that I really needed to stick with now because I had moved back home to write the book. Victoria Aveyard chats with the audience. The year that you spent after college to write 'Red Queen', was there ever a point when you were consumed by self-doubt? But that was not a safe career choice either, so I don’t know what I was thinking.

I very seriously considered that, and even took some classes in New York City. Was there any other career you considered pursuing besides being a writer?įor the most part, I’ve always wanted to write, but there was a brief blip in high school, where I was like, oh my god, I don’t know how I can turn writing into a job. Everything that has happened to me for the most part has been completely unexpected.

Especially writers, we’re not, ‘Look at me! Look at me!’ It’s not a thing that we naturally like. It’s not anything I thought was part of the job. PJ: How do you feel about this part of being an author: doing interviews and book tours? Despite a grueling schedule that included a visit to the International School, numerous press interviews and book signings and fan meets in Manila and Cebu, she was upbeat and fun, expressing genuine thrill at being here. I chatted with Aveyard during her brief visit to Manila.

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