Inside the Turbulent Journey of Rachel Weaver: The Untold Story Behind Dizzy
RW: I struggled with fine tuning the structure all the way to the moment I had to hand off the final draft. Time turns itself inside out during sustained illness. It becomes irrelevant, it stretches out of reach. It didn’t want to be wrangled into something recognizable for this narrative. I struggled to reconstruct the actual timeline. So many years lived in a haze, and then the sharp ax of fear cutting through it all, cleaving it into pieces that have nothing to do with time. From the beginning, I set out to write a book that made the reader feel the experience as much as possible. In the end, I kept working toward that elusive edge we all aim for as writers where the reader can feel the chaos fully but not lose their footing in the narrative.
