I didn't have the foggiest notion of who Robyn and Jason were going to be. The only things I knew about them - she would be a loyal friend to Jason till the end and he would be rough around the edges but have a kind heart that would land him in trouble. It took me many months and frustration to get them crystalised. If I started writing some and the form they took on the page didn't feel true to the original version of them, I couldn't continue. Trashed, I'd have to rewrite and because it was my first book, I couldn't tell if this process was insane or normal. How could I stay true to a feeling, a vision - just the foggiest notion of characters that exist only in my head and yet I am stubbornly insisting on aspects of their personhood that even I have not consciously decided on? 

Don't know. There's just a feeling that I go with. It's like you just know when something feels right.

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Did you know there's a real song called My Foggy Notions?

Why must I find that falling down

Brings my hopes high, oh so high?

Why must you cry when I fall down?

The truth is mine, only mine

Don't you know it's my, my foggy notion?

So, please don't cry when I fall down

It helps me with the truth inside