Sheri-D Wilson enters a dreamless world with epic dystopian poem
Eric Volmers of The Calgary Herald recently wrote a thought-provoking article about Sheri-D Wilson’s book “The Oneironaut ∅1”.
But this was something different.
“Well into writing it, when I had the whole story written, I woke up and suddenly had the whole dystopian world of it,” she says. “I hadn’t seen that before. It was all about healing before. It was kind of a nice story and I suddenly woke up and it was … darkness! I hadn’t written really seriously evil characters and that whole side of the world, that totalitarian side of the world, that really shook up the healers. I started that day from the beginning again and rewrote the whole thing with a dark side.”
It had a huge impact on Wilson as a writer. “I think it reordered my molecules inside my body,” which she found both “devastating and inspiring.’”
Eventually, Wilson and her publisher, Write Bloody North, realized the form and sweeping narrative of this project would not be contained in one volume. The Oneironaut ∅2 and The Oneironaut ∅3 will be released later.
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