It’s pure bliss.”įor Robinson, writing is a welcome escape from a dismal news cycle. But once I’m into it, once it’s cooking, there’s nothing like it. “ The thing I fear the most is the actual first draft when you have nothing,” she explains. The characters come first, with one or two individuals occupying space in her brain. I’m not interested in characters that have a leisurely life.”
It’s affected the characters I want to write about. “We don’t really value the service industry. “ It gave me an appreciation of what happens to keep our society going and who we value,” she says.
She picked up a series of McJobs-working during the day so she could continue to write at night. “ Back then it was angsty psychic children, a lot of being possessed by ghosts and murdering people. An avid Stephen King fan, Robinson started writing stories whenever she got a chance. In Trickster Drift, Jared is newly sober and starting school in Vancouver, but his days of grappling with supernatural forces are far from over. I could not have predicted his love of Nickelback, though,” she laughs. “He’s a mishmash of people that I know and characters that I’ve read. I thought, you know, I don’t want to spend a novel with you.” Instead, she hones the focus on his reluctant son, Jared. “I found very irritating-bragging a lot and making a lot of excuses for his behaviour. With the release of her second novel in the trilogy, Trickster Drift, Robinson has some time to think about the character who has overtaken her life the past few years.
“Now that I have more freedom, it’s necessary to have a routine, which is frustrating because I don’t need to be up that early.” The routine is just more so I don’t go on Facebook the siren call of ‘research,’” she laughs. I wasn’t like that before I could write eighteen hours a day in a hotel room, on a plane. I had my desk, my computer, my coffee mug-it all had to be in the same place. “I was very conscious that I only had an hour. “I had a lot of personal and professional obligations, so the only time I had to write was between four and five in the morning,” she says over the phone from her hotel room in Granville Island. While writing her Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster, she’d set her alarm for 3:50 a.m. Eden Robinson is loving these book tour days she can sleep in for once.
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