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Reflecting back on Space Junk a little over a year after publishing, I still feel good about it. It's the first thing I've written that I've been 99% happy with. But at this point, the book feels like its own entity, entirely separate from me. It reminds me of that Carl Jung quote, "People don't have ideas. Ideas have people." It really feels that way, like ideas have a will of their own. In my experience, finding them is a matter of being receptive, and being more receptive is a matter of practice. Writing fiction then is the process of translating those ideas in a coherent and hopefully satisfying way. That's how I sometimes see it, anyway. Experiences may vary.
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It's a new year, change is in the air, and I've finished most of my real life early year tasks. Nearing the end of the arduous, though also at times fun and rewarding, journey of this book, I'm faced with all the little changes and additions I put off during early revisions. When writing, I highly recommend keeping a file of edits of random ideas that pop into your head that have nothing to do with whatever part of the story you're immediately working on. You can always go back and add them later, but you don't want to lose good ideas. This is the first point where it really starts to feel like things are coming together, and it's pretty relieving. All the rest of the way feels like I may never pull all the threads together. The end is still somewhere off in the distance, but it's in sight.
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