One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.
People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
If something wants to be a story, it will be.
In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.
What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.