Ask the Author: Kayl Karadjian
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Kayl Karadjian
It's pretty hard to do one in such a short way, but I think I know a very scary one. It goes like this: someday someone asked me to tell a two-sentence horror story.
Kayl Karadjian
Dragonsoul was born out of a story I wanted to write about a boy and a dragon. I've been a fan of dragons ever since I was a kid, and when I set out to write Dragonsoul the story evolved much more to what it has become today.
I wanted to create a unique world that used its uniqueness as both a setting and narrative. With every step I took the narrative expanded until I get to the end, where I realized that I had created something much different than I had anticipated. I had written it as a stand-alone, and by the time I finished I decided that it was going to be a trilogy.
I wanted to create a unique world that used its uniqueness as both a setting and narrative. With every step I took the narrative expanded until I get to the end, where I realized that I had created something much different than I had anticipated. I had written it as a stand-alone, and by the time I finished I decided that it was going to be a trilogy.
Kayl Karadjian
I get this giddy feeling inside when I want to share a story that has deep meaning to me. Everything I write speaks to my soul, and it's my hope that it speaks to others as well.
Kayl Karadjian
Right now I'm working on a few books at the same time. I'm finishing off Silent Requiem: Tales of Ashkar Book Three while also polishing a nonfiction memoir about the Armenian Genocide. Lastly, I'm outlining my sci fi kaiju romance and will be starting that one soon.
Kayl Karadjian
Start writing a crap ton until you get really good at it. The passed around quote to perfect any skill is doing it for 10,000 hours, and while that is probably a bit much if we're talking about writing, the message is the same.
With every book you write, you're writing will only get better. I'd recommend starting on short stories or fan fic to get started before moving on to a whole book.
With every book you write, you're writing will only get better. I'd recommend starting on short stories or fan fic to get started before moving on to a whole book.
Kayl Karadjian
Being able to fully express myself and creating the infinite worlds that had been stuck in my head.
Kayl Karadjian
I think the concept of writer's block is tricky in nature. It's such a vague subject that I find myself questioning its legitimacy as a real thing. For me personally, I can attribute 'Writer's Block' to whether or not I find purpose in what I'm currently working on.
If I do have purpose, I can write thousands of words in one sitting and still want to write more. If I feel like I'm wasting my time, I struggle to even open up my documents. So if that's what writer's block is, then it sure is real.
The issue stems from whether or not you feel like you're doing something meaningful. For me, I've struggled many times with writing when I've reached certain points where I feel like I won't find success with it.
Others derive meaning from just their expression, and that is what I'm learning to do. If you write for yourself and only yourself, writer's block does not exist for you. But if you want others to see your work, that's where the problem starts.
My advice? Write what you want and don't give a damn what anyone thinks about it. The only useful criticism is constructive, everything else only serves to slow you down.
If I do have purpose, I can write thousands of words in one sitting and still want to write more. If I feel like I'm wasting my time, I struggle to even open up my documents. So if that's what writer's block is, then it sure is real.
The issue stems from whether or not you feel like you're doing something meaningful. For me, I've struggled many times with writing when I've reached certain points where I feel like I won't find success with it.
Others derive meaning from just their expression, and that is what I'm learning to do. If you write for yourself and only yourself, writer's block does not exist for you. But if you want others to see your work, that's where the problem starts.
My advice? Write what you want and don't give a damn what anyone thinks about it. The only useful criticism is constructive, everything else only serves to slow you down.
Kayl Karadjian
The highly improbable way that I met my wife, who is my perfect match. Was it fate, determined to always happen this way? Or did I just get lucky, a random collection of numbers that lined up?
How mysterious.
How mysterious.
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