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But most of that information stays in her notes.

She writes several pages about her settings, character designs, backgrounds, and magical systems. Schwab is just as obsessive about her worldbuilding. Those details become a weight that distracts from the primary story. Schwab believes that many aspiring authors go wrong because they inundate readers with details about their world that ultimately don’t matter. She is convinced that class systems add a sense of realism to fictional settings because they make it so much easier for people to understand the relationships between characters. The author places considerable emphasis on the social hierarchy. She expects them to extrapolate the rules from the broad constructs she crafts. She wants the reader’s imagination to fill the gaps in her blueprint. She finds minor aspects that matter, including the language and folklore. When it comes to fleshing out the culture, the author is not as obsessed with explaining every little detail as her peers. She tries to understand the settings her characters will inhabit, creating the systems that govern her fictional societies. Worldbuilding is a vital aspect of the author’s stories.

She wrote the novel over ten years, and it changed during that time, with the characters’ fears and motivations morphing in response to the author’s personal growth. For instance, to write ‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue,’ she visited every location in her story, including places she eventually chose to eliminate from the story. Some of her novels require more research than others. It can take up to a decade for the author to turn a vague idea into a tangible concept for a novel she can publish. She quickly made a splash, winning praise from publications like The Guardian and Publishers Weekly for her riveting stories.Įven though Schwab is a prolific writer with a fairly extensive bibliography, her fans do not realize that many of her books require years of work.

Initially intent on pursuing Astrophysics, the author eventually took an interest in literature and never looked back.