It's been a busy month and I've had a few accomplishments that I feel is worthy of being highlighted, and some reflection that goes along with it.
Most relevant to the site... I've actually put out more than one blog a month!
But there's more...
So in my last blog post I talked about where I think the idea of my novel came from.
While I believe I did a decent enough job of that, I think I missed something very important, and that is my guess as to why I have ideas in the first place.
So why do I have ideas?
I have ideas because I get inspired.
Which leads to the question. How does one get inspired?
All writing that comes from a human being (and what a weird world we live in that that needs to be qualified) comes from an idea.
And here I want to speak about where I think the idea of my novel came from, now only ten months away from publication. I cannot do better than that as, in the end, ideas are mysterious things.
The core idea of my novel is the setting of Medina'tul-Agham, which is a medieval city that is not only an Islamic society, but a matriarchal one as well.
As far as I can tell, that core idea came from the question. "Can the law of the faith that I am a part of... Sharia... explain the faith of the family that I grew up in?"
Here I am again, late at night, writing a blog post and trying to get a newsletter out because I want to, at the very minimum, post on the 23rd of every month until my book comes out.
So as the last hours of the 23rd of October slip by, let's hear it for achieving the bare minimum!
But that bare minimum included some major progress on a number of different fronts. Read on for more!
So it's been four months since my last blog post, which was definitely NOT what I had planned. But a lot of progress has been made and I do have a lot of updates to provide.
The biggest being that I do have an 'official' date of publication for Under The Full and Crescent Moon and that is, Inshallah, the 23rd of September 2025! Which is, Inshallah, exactly a year from when I plan to put up this blog post!
That's a lot of Inshallah's already! Read on for a few more.
It's been almost a month since my last blog entry. The main reason for that is that I am deep into editing the novel and I have a very very tight deadline for that.
And I have to get back to it so I think this will be a short entry!