This might be indicative of why I’ve had a hard time pushing through as A Year (And A Half Now, Almost) Of Pike has approached its end point. I couldn’t keep talking about the same thing again. I realized that I simply could not rework this story again, that it wasn’t ever going to be what I wanted or do what I wanted, or at least not in this fifth attempt in ten years. But at a certain point, I started to try to focus on bettering and refining one of my main tales, one I’d revisited off and on since sixth grade … and I just burned out. Time was I couldn’t sit down without pumping out a thousand words of my own universe, my own characters and plots and desires and ideas. Part of the reason I took on this project is that I felt like my own writing was stagnating. It’s Sati set in high school with teenagers. Of course, as with any powerful girl that people don’t understand, this happiness is fated to flee just as quickly when she pushes herself beyond what her body can handle. Whatever it is, she seems to connect with Fred just as quickly, elevating him to a greater happiness than he’s ever known. Maybe it’s the remarkable power she commands, the way that happiness and healing ride in her wake everywhere she goes. Maybe it’s the way she refers to herself as merely a vessel for conveying the knowledge she seems to have about our greater nature. There’s a new girl in school, and something about her is unbelievably interesting to Fred Allen.
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