Inside the Turbulent Journey of Rachel Weaver: The Untold Story Behind Dizzy
RW: I wrote the whole medical narrative first and it was brutal. As a way to entertain myself and remember that my whole life had not been brutal, I started writing the fun Alaska adventure stories. My dad was a fantastic storyteller, usually fueled by a campfire and a couple beers, so I channeled him and stayed in that world for a while. I started to see how one thread might mirror the other, how the adventure stories might bring stronger context and more depth to the medical story. I began to braid the two narratives together and it turned into a huge knot and I thought I should just go back to fiction. But I kept coming back to it, thinking through each individual strand.
