When I came out of school, I had many horrible jobs, but I didn’t know what the path was to a creative life or the life of a writer,” the author told Nerdist. “I was one of those kids who looks really good on paper, I tested very well, I went to a fancy college, won some prizes. But the realities of making it happen evaded her. Pursuing a career as a writer was something Bardugo had wanted since childhood. And then I’ll know that I’ll be able to do it.'” And I had also reached this point where I thought my tombstone was gonna say, ‘She had potential.’ So I decided, ‘I’m gonna write a book, and it doesn’t have to be a good book, it just has to be done. I was in a terrible, scary, awful relationship. “My father had passed away just recently. “I was 35 when I started writing Shadow and Bone, and my only goal was to finish a book because I had never managed to do it.” Bardugo shared. In fact, the New York Times bestselling book that would spawn a massive multi-book series and upcoming TV show began as a personal challenge. Leigh Bardugo never really thought Shadow and Bone would get published.
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