[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I\u2019ve recently finished writing another novel. It has nothing to do with Clandestina, my only published novel so far, but I feel this story has made me experience an equinox within myself.<\/p>\n
The creative process has been cathartic, and I truly feel that, through writing this latest novel, I\u2019ve grown \u2014 both as a person and as a writer.\u2028Writing transforms me. I believe it makes me a better human being, and still, the creative process never fails to surprise me.
\nI constantly ask myself how immersing so deeply in the pain of my characters, imagining even their most mundane lives, could have led me to such an intense transformation: from not wanting to feel, to feeling deeply; from being frozen, to embracing the most human warmth; from absolute darkness, to the most illuminating light.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always thought that time changes us all, though we barely notice it happening.<\/p>\n
At first, we may resist change, clinging to appearances and form, reluctant to open our eyes to the most honest reality. But then, something happens: truth finds us, and change becomes inevitable. We realise that, until then, we had been moving in circles, repeating the same pattern over and over again\u2026 until one day, we think: What if I close the circle?\u2028And it is then that change occurs, and we are released from that weight.\u2028Change makes us feel free.<\/p>\n
Life makes us change.<\/p>\n
Writing makes me feel freedom.<\/p>\n
Each novel I finish is a circle closed: it leaves me lighter, freer, happier.<\/p>\n
Perhaps because now I write from emotion, from the place that moves and touches me the most\u2026 far more than I ever did with Clandestina.<\/p>\n
I smile, because once again, I feel the equinox within me.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve just finished writing a new novel. It\u2019s very different from Clandestina, my first published book, but it has been a truly transformative experience.
\nAs I was writing it, I felt something deep within me shift into alignment, as though I were living through an inner equinox.<\/p>\n
The creative process was cathartic. I immersed myself in the pain of the characters, in their everyday lives, and in doing so, something within me changed.
\nI went from not wanting to feel, to feeling everything; from coldness to the most human warmth; from darkness to a revealing light.<\/p>\n
Every story I write transforms me. It leaves me freer, lighter, more alive.
\nPerhaps it\u2019s because now I write from a far more honest place \u2014 from what truly stirs and moves me.<\/p>\n
I smile, because once again, I feel the equinox within me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[410,408,409,412,414,145,406,407,413,411],"class_list":["post-6593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-letter-en","tag-about-writing","tag-bringing-closure","tag-bringing-things-full-circle","tag-clandestine","tag-crime-books","tag-cristina-redondo-en","tag-equinox","tag-growth","tag-new-crime-book","tag-writing"],"yoast_head":"\n