The story that became The Passage had begun to fill my head, to breathe and walk and talk – to be populated, as someone once said, by ‘warm new beings’ I actually believed in.”Īnd so, Cronin began to write the book. “And not just one book: saving the world seemed like the kind of undertaking that would take three books to accomplish. “As the weeks went by, I began to think this story actually could be a book, and that it was actually a better book, a much better book, than the one I was actually supposed to be writing,” he revealed in a 2016 interview. Iris, who was the inspiration for the main character, Amy, insisted on it.Īt first, though Cronin very much enjoyed these jogging sessions with his daughter, he had no intention of actually writing the book. With Iris pedalling her bicycle right beside him, the two of them bounced ideas back-and-forth about the story, centred around the premise of a girl saving the world.
Justin Cronin was going for a series of long jogs in 2006 with his 8-year old daughter, Iris, when he started to come up with the idea for The Passage, the first instalment of his highly successful vampire trilogy. Subscribe to our newsletter so you don’t miss out! Justin Cronin’s Advice for Writers with Day Jobs and Children | Chicago Review of BooksĮach week, we publish a new daily writing routine from a famous author. To write a novel is to finish one, not start one.
Until you get to the end, you don’t have anything. But if you write 1,000 words a day, in 100 days you’ll have a novel. Whether it’s 1,000 words a day, 500 words a day, 250 if that’s the time you have.
Justin Cronin is an American author, best-known for his best-selling vampire trilogy consisting of The Passage, The Twelve and City of Mirrors.
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