let’s talk about why my schizophrenia is confusing to people
Echo’s Journey - I Love Her
I talk about Echo being crazy. She is. More than I ever was. She has always been an enflamed version of everything I go through into overt psychopathy and healing it the same — through action. Echo is my favorite character I will ever write. I will never love a character more. She is the woman inside me who was made and then died waiting for someone to help her grow up.
I did not love Echo, as is clear in Human Fire Power, until I fell more in love with her than anything I’ve ever created. I call that chapter forty-six. I’ll never get that far again intentionally. It’s chapter forty-six. I’ll just skip it or something if I have to.
Human Fire Power (formerly The Foundry) - Chapter Forty-Six:
https://www.daphnegarrido.com/p/the-foundry-part-four-chapter-forty-d58?r=2cd8qt
Echo’s Journey - Echo Wants to Die
The end of Time Bellows Gasoline (formerly Time Throws Fire) was abrupt and unexpected. I wrote my final chapter like I write all my final chapters—all night long, until the break of dawn.
It was after I posted it, and was listening to the song at the end as I laid down for sleep I realized the book was over and it was the most effective ending I could ever imagine. It’s about suicide. I realized how badly I needed help from someone else for how much I wanted to kill myself fighting alone too long.
Time Bellows Gasoline (formerly Time Throws Fire) - Chapter Fifty-Six
https://www.daphnegarrido.com/p/time-throws-fire-part-ten-chapter?r=2cd8qt
Echo’s Journey - Echo’s Death
Nothing has ever been done that was sadder than this. I killed Echo, before going into a court session where I was choosing not to fight, so I didn’t look crazy through my executive dysfunction, and just plead for mercy with the truth.
I killed Echo in the hardest, best-fought crying session I think I’ll ever have to write through. It was a really incredible thing to do. I was giving up my fighter for trying to change the world with the irredeemably hardened psychopath Rory clearly is.
Time Throws Fire (formerly Part II) - Chapter Five
https://www.daphnegarrido.com/p/time-throws-fire-volume-two-chapter-f5e?r=2cd8qt
Journal on Echo’s Death
Doing this a schizophrenic woman who loves her character like I do, as they are a part of me, makes the process alchemical within my growth as a human. I’ve lived this in an emotional way none might imagine but me.
This is my video journal recorded just after writing it.
https://www.daphnegarrido.com/p/video-journal-cosmonaut?r=2cd8qt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Echo’s Journey - Echo’s Funeral
Poe Becomes the Lead in My Heart, we start revealing Echo loved a psychopath who was fooling The Foundry named Rory, Funeral speaks truth.
Time Throws Fire (formerly Part II) - Chapter Six
https://www.daphnegarrido.com/p/time-throws-fire-volume-two-chapter-cb7?r=2cd8qt
Echo’s Journey - Rory’s Recompense
This was my court date. Like ten minutes afterwards the thought came through. ‘What am I going to do? - Yup, Rory’s Gonna Die’
It was immediate. And I was legit stoked to write.
Time Throws Fire (formerly Part II) - Chapter Seven
