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And as I’ve pushed through and read every single one of his published works, I’ve started to feel that same fatigue that I had when trying to rewrite and repair something I’d spent so much time on of my own. But then, when you’ve only got one brain working on all these extensive ideas and under these onerous deadlines, you’re invariably going to start to repeat yourself.Īlmost everything Pike wrote after the start of Spooksville (I can’t even be charitable and say after his car accident) has repeated or revisited some major theme from an earlier work (mostly his own I see you, Black Knight). It’s admirable that he was able to keep that up for so long without resorting to the James Patterson model of hiring someone else to write the books that have his name in large type across the top.

But thirty years is a long time to stay in the game, especially when you’re pumping out more than three books a year for the main part of your popularity. There’s no denying that the man is a killer storyteller, and that some of his ideas and worlds were stunning and even revolutionary within the genre. This might be indicative of why I’ve had a hard time pushing through as A Year (And A Half Now, Almost) Of Pike has approached its end point. I couldn’t keep talking about the same thing again. I realized that I simply could not rework this story again, that it wasn’t ever going to be what I wanted or do what I wanted, or at least not in this fifth attempt in ten years. But at a certain point, I started to try to focus on bettering and refining one of my main tales, one I’d revisited off and on since sixth grade … and I just burned out. Time was I couldn’t sit down without pumping out a thousand words of my own universe, my own characters and plots and desires and ideas. Part of the reason I took on this project is that I felt like my own writing was stagnating. It’s Sati set in high school with teenagers.

Of course, as with any powerful girl that people don’t understand, this happiness is fated to flee just as quickly when she pushes herself beyond what her body can handle. Whatever it is, she seems to connect with Fred just as quickly, elevating him to a greater happiness than he’s ever known. Maybe it’s the remarkable power she commands, the way that happiness and healing ride in her wake everywhere she goes. Maybe it’s the way she refers to herself as merely a vessel for conveying the knowledge she seems to have about our greater nature. There’s a new girl in school, and something about her is unbelievably interesting to Fred Allen.