But even when my work shows me how little I accomplish, I still like doing it.
But I have been beaten up by the writing process so often, I can't speak with any authority about conquering it. Anything worth fighting for (and, thus, conquering) had better be something you like. I've been sitting and staring at it as if the words will hand me something to say. I love this question, but I'm not sure I have an answer. What is more important to you: liking what you do or conquering it? This answer should tell you a little bit about how messy and image driven my writing is. For a long time, the characters I cared about the most were Clare and Raphael. He was always named Julian and a man who had fled Alexandria. Leila (Violet) was very close to her father. Also in the idea of making a bad choice that is actually a good one. I was interested in information carried on and in the body. Eamon (Drew) was the one who had scars on his wrists. Only his name was Drew and hers was Violet and she was a twin and he was the 30 year old son of the man who owned the restaurant where Leila worked. Which Stay With Me character came to mind first? Which plotline?
But, in the end, I decided that "stay with me" is what you say to the people who leave you, but who you wish had never left, and so it made sense as a title. I wanted a different title (and a different cover!) I had used Stay With Me for an earlier draft (the Clare & Raphael period), but thought that because of Leila and Eamon's exchange, Stay With Me sounded like a romance novel. Was the title derived from the exchange between Leila and Eamon or did you have it in mind prior to writing that exact scene? I highly recommend this complex, well-written novel to adults and to older teenagers. In Garret Freymann-Weyr's best novel to date, STAY WITH ME, a young woman attempts to figure out what would cause her older sister to commit suicide, and why her family is the way that it is.
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