I found writing Everything I Know About Love really difficult - I did not enjoy that experience at all.
Was it a more enjoyable writing experience not having to recount your personal life? There’s something about that time that felt like the last gift for me of what the old world was. I do think I romanticise it as well though - I handed in the book in April 2020 so really my last ever memory of the world before COVID was me writing this book. I was in the world, observing the world, loving people, dating, having relationships and then sitting at my desk in silence every day just writing stories about it. I was out living and participating in the world in a really committed present way that wasn’t knackered or frantic or constantly on my phone. It just felt like the life of a writer I had always dreamed of. And I had a 9 to 5 for the first time ever - I could go out and hear my friends’ disastrous dating stories and then the next day I would feed it all into my writing. I’ve never done that before in my life - it was so wonderful. I look back on that period when I completely shut myself off from everything that wasn’t this book and I just spent every day with these characters. I miss the months that I was writing Ghosts so much - I think about that time like I was in a relationship I have now lost.
Writing this book was the greatest professional pleasure of my life. Talk me through your experience writing Ghosts. If you’re struggling to keep your head above water in a sea of obligations and anxieties, this book is the reassurance and comfort that you need.įeatures Editor Jenny Proudfoot sat down with the wonderful Dolly to talk Ghosts, writing female friendship and why love is the only subject for her. Real, raw and overwhelmingly reassuring, Ghosts serves as an important reminder that life is hard and in many ways beyond our control. And the likelihood is that you’re not going to be able to anticipate any of it." "Life will surprise you in all sorts of wonderful ways, life will disappoint you and break your heart. "The message of Ghosts is one of hope and one of warning," Dolly explained in our sit-down last year. In short, it’s a must-read for all millennial women.
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