{"id":938,"date":"2022-10-10T16:19:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/?p=938"},"modified":"2022-10-10T17:01:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T16:01:27","slug":"keep-going-when-all-you-want-to-do-is-give-up-german-book-launch-of-sari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/keep-going-when-all-you-want-to-do-is-give-up-german-book-launch-of-sari\/","title":{"rendered":"How to keep going when all you want to do is give up !"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>6 years ago, I wrote a one woman show called Sari: The whole Five Yards<\/strong> about a 60-year-old woman who tells the truth for the very first time and in doing so, her life unravels. I was, at that point, safely ensconced in my comfort zone unaware how my life would unravel with this piece of work. Nobody wanted to commission the show.<\/p>\n

Having never acted before, I booked a theatre in Covent Garden, rehearsed for 18 months, put it on playing all 17 parts. It was one of the most terrifying\/exilharating things that I have done. The show got bought by a production company, it then got pulled during the pandemic as budgets were cut. I did everything I could not to write the novel that it wanted to be. It took me about four years to write.<\/p>\n

I was offered a fourth book deal with HarperCollins and for various reasons, had to turn it down. The book is still on a journey with me – unravelling as we make our first stop in Germany.<\/p>\n

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This post is to mark a milestone in a project where many times, I have wanted to give up. The things that have kept me going are:<\/p>\n