I've been trying to think of a way to phrase this idea since I had it, and it's really impossible. This is the closest I got, and it's not perfect.
When you finish a book it feels like it ran out of pages, not just concluded. "where did the rest go?" you might ask, even when there is a perfectly reasonable ending. The problem is that the book finished before you did. There is a delay, a period of time in which you are not really there, you are somewhere else, still reading the pages that got pulled out from under you.
The idea I am looking for is "that period of time." does anyone know what I'm talking about? You are in a funk because the book isn't done inside of you, you are still thinking about it in great detail. I hope this isn't like that hero post thing awhile back where know one knew what I was talking about and thought I was going crazy/ had a very very interesting imagination.
Does anyone else get in good-book-funks where you aren't processing anything but the story you won't let go of? Come on, my literate friends, you must know what I'm talking about.
No?
I must be going crazy then.
No.
I'm not. You just don't see it.
I HAVE THOSE. If feels so weird. And I don't know how to describe it. I get it when I finish a really good book.
ReplyDeleteI KNOW RIGHT! It's this haze! I bet its magical! Story idea... hahaha. Isn't it an awesome feeling? How would you describe it though? It's so hard to.
ReplyDeleteI like the haze thing though. Because that's exactly what it is. It feels like a haze, like you're still stuck there in the book. And it takes a bit to come out.
ReplyDeletei feel like i dont want to read another book,and get used to a whole different character and a whole nother life.
ReplyDeleteOooh I like that Ally...
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