Alessandra Ranelli
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I left.
And the sun was rising.
And I wandered home.
I fell asleep and I slept four hours and I woke up with a champagne headache and the idea for a book.
So the very first draft of the book took me 13 months to write.
Now, at the time, I had just been fired and I assumed I'd been rejected from this grad school program I'd been working for years to get into because the acceptance date had come
And came and went and I didn't hear anything.
And I sat with the idea for a few days because I had never written a novel before.
Kept a blog.
I did live storytelling and wrote poetry.
And I did professional storytelling, but as a side project, never as a main source of income.
But I'd never written anything long form or that wasn't autobiographical in some way.
So after sitting on the idea for a few days, what I actually did was I called my father, who is an Italian American accountant, and he's very tough love.
And I said, I need you to sit down.
I have to tell you something and you're going to be mad at me.
He was like, oh, God, what did you do?
And I was like, everything's fine, but I need you to listen to the whole story.
And then, you know, I need your advice.
And then I said, there's this love hotel in Vienna that I went to the other night with a stranger.
It's fine.