behind the scenes - THE BLUR
Much of the first part of book 4 is written in a condensed, minimalistic way. Here is why.
The beginning of book 4 was always to be written like a blur, everything happening at once, never a moment’s rest, always rushing on. I remember thinking that I should record the chapter rather than write it to capture the breathlessness of that time for the story’s team. And I was convinced that I could easily squeeze those ten weeks of the story into twenty pages. Maybe fifty.
Writing The Blur was one of the things I had been looking forward to doing for years. When I was recovering from overwork and a double mastectomy in 2024, I thought, I should treat myself to writing The Blur, even though book 3, shaping, wasn’t completed.
It was a great decision. The blur was everything I had hoped for and more. I began by reviewing the last chapters of book 3, shaping, and then set out to put together the fun, content-rich juxtaposition that is the first part of book 4.
Doing this was like solving a mystery or working on a great puzzle. Everywhere were pieces that could be squeezed into the breathlessness and more ideas kept coming, especially for the campaigns.
It soon became obvious that The blur would exceed the fifty pages I had considered a maximum. But despite the amount of content, I decided to write it in a condensed way, without paragraphs, with few headlines, always pushing on, always adding more, often foregoing descriptions and just using dialogue, often jumping from one event to the other.
I guess, it will be a relief for me and for readers to get to the second part of book 4, and finally have paragraphs and breaks for chapters again.
But for The blur, I want the reader to experience the breathlessness, too.
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