Feminist author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is best known for her books like 'Half of a Yellow Sun', 'Purple Hibiscus', among others and she is an inspiration for many aspiring writers. But did you know about this one particular thing that helps Adichie in her creative and writing process? In a recent interview, the author revealed the one important thing that helps her writing process as she told Bustle, "I'm not even joking when I say that chocolate is a fundamental part of [my] process of creativity... That perfect in between — not too milky, not too dark. With a bit of hazelnuts."
Elaborating on what makes her write, she further said in the interview, “Writing is the love of my life. It’s the thing that makes me happiest when it is going well — apart from the people I love...Fiction gives me a transcendent joy [where] I feel as though I am suspended in my fictional walls."
But like most writers, Adichie too suffers from the writer's block. When asked how she deals with it, she told Bustle, "Here in Lagos, my desk was made by this furniture maker who's young. It’s white with two pullout drawers on either side. On the table itself, I have my laptop and a couple of books. I also happen to have a bottle of a cream liqueur, called Wild Africa Cream. When I'm writing, I don't want any alcohol in my body at all. But when it's not going well, then I'm like, "All right. Maybe we just need to take a swig."
It's noted that 2021 was a tough year for Adichie as she lost her father. She wrote about her loss in the book 'Notes on Grief'. Unfortunately, weeks after her father's death the author also lost her mother.
Meanwhile, this year Adichie is all set to release a new guided journal with prompts to help people kickstart their writing. The new journal is said to be a piece to her book titled 'We Should All Be Feminists', which was published in 2014. The guided journal is also named the same.
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