Oyinkan Braithwaite

But some people, some characters I meet along the way, some things are created because I have reached a problem.

I'm like, there's a problem here.

So how do I get out of this problem?

And then there's a particular twist in this book where that I didn't know what really what it was.

And even I talk about how Munifa, at the start of the novel, she walks into the water and she drowns herself.

But I didn't know exactly the course of events that led to that.

when I started it when I wrote that prologue I didn't know what exactly had triggered that um and then at some point it came to me at some point writing and I was like and again when I was writing because I write fairly chronologically you know in Ebu's earlier chapters you get a sense of guilt from her again I didn't know I was already writing about this guilt not knowing

what again what the trigger for that guilt was you just knew that guilt was involved yes yeah wow it seems like

Yeah, they are guidelines.

And it keeps you, I think it keeps me loose.

It keeps it not so heavy, but it also means you can surprise yourself.

You can have happy accidents, which is why some of these questions where people are like,

What was your reasoning behind this?

And what was your thinking behind that?

And I'm like, oh, no, what was my thinking behind it?

Because I was just I was flowing for the most part.

I don't know.

I think that's down to the reader.

I mean, you said earlier that there's an element of fantasy in this.

And I've also thought about that with this book.