![]() ![]() As Henry grows in sentience, he sees how Lydia is treated and helps her exact revenge on the people who’ve been mean to her. Lydia is bullied at school and overlooked at home, and she pours all of herself into creating an AI named Henry after her dead brother. She told me she didn’t set out to write a book about artificial intelligence – the book was driven by her main character. She prefer to write first thing in the morning rather than pulling an ‘all-nighter’ as ideas percolate whilst she sleeps and when she wakes up it feels like her brain has sorted through it all, making for an easier writing session. ![]() ![]() Naomi uses this method for all her books she told me as I long as she knows the character backwards, the plot drives itself. I ended up re-drafting about seven times.” Naomi Gibson ![]() I completed this first draft in a hot and messy two weeks back in 2017. I knew Lydia inside out so when I sat down to write, the plot came naturally to me because I knew what she wanted and what she feared. Then I wrote and wrote, sometimes until three in the morning, and didn’t stop until two weeks later when I had a first draft of around 60,000 words. “The class left me so inspired I went home and I did a lot of character prep. ![]()
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