{"id":2455,"date":"2024-04-14T22:49:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T12:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/?page_id=2455"},"modified":"2024-04-14T22:56:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T12:56:21","slug":"in-body-in-mind-origin-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.phenomenology.com.au\/press\/books\/books-ibim\/in-body-in-mind-origin-story\/","title":{"rendered":"In Body, In Mind Origin Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2455\" class=\"elementor elementor-2455\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-51f314f1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"51f314f1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-24cb251c\" data-id=\"24cb251c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-871ac18 elementor-widget elementor-widget-woocommerce-breadcrumb\" data-id=\"871ac18\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"woocommerce-breadcrumb.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<nav class=\"woocommerce-breadcrumb\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">Home<\/nav>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-795a735 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"795a735\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">In Body, In Mind Origin Story<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1385945 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"1385945\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-66f0a42 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"66f0a42\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default elementor-inline-editing pen\" contenteditable=\"true\" data-elementor-setting-key=\"title\" data-pen-placeholder=\"Type Here...\">Origin Story<\/h3><p><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif;\">The genesis of this book was wine. Way too much of it. It was 1989. We were living just north of Perth at the time, and one night, over dinner with a good friend, we drank wine and talked books and philosophy and writing. We waxed lyrical about ideas for novels and journal articles and plays and film scripts, with no genuine intentions for their realisation. And then I went back to work, and the conversation receded. But strangely, a day or two later, I wrote a page, an embarrassingly na\u00efve outline for a spectacularly unwritable book. But that unimposing scrap of paper was the start of this novel, even though the book that was eventually published bears almost no resemblance at all to the original outline.<\/span><\/p><p>Only a month or two later, I was describing the project to another good friend, and his response gave me hope. \u201cThe world needs more philosophical fiction,\u201d he said. \u201cYou should write this book. 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Instead, I was reading, listening, taking notes, watching, and thinking. It was all good practice, and it let me fool myself that I was writing a novel. But it wasn\u2019t focused, it wasn\u2019t coherent, and it wasn\u2019t going anywhere. And that\u2019s why it took twenty years to achieve very little.<\/p><p>Then in 2010 I decided I had to make a choice. Of twenty planned chapters, I had written three. I had a folder full of random notes, a hazy plot outline which bore almost no resemblance to the original plan, and a title. That was it. I\u2019d lost confidence in what I thought I was trying to say, and lost sight of why I thought I should say it. There was a very strong temptation to put it all away in a drawer and forget about it.<\/p><p>Then, out of the blue came an invitation to join a closed LinkedIn group of writers interested in the art of literary fiction. And in the course of participating in that group, my confidence returned. 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Or more accurately, on track for the first time.<\/p><p>I began to write more systematically, initially one full day a month, then a day a week, and then a day plus three 5 o\u2019clock mornings a week, plus whatever other time I could squeeze in around family and working and travel and maintaining a home.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d5172d4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d5172d4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>And after almost seven years of focused writing, in April 2016, the final seventeen chapters were written, and I\u2019d typed the last word to complete my manuscript.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Body, In Mind Origin Story Origin Story The genesis of this book was wine. 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