Ask the Author: Rishab Borah
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Rishab Borah
Always wear your costume on Halloween. When the fae came for me with their fangs dripping and their wings glinting like knives, I knew I'd never forget to dress up again.
Rishab Borah
Well, the world of my series, Elkloria, was originally conceptualized as my perfect fantasy world, since I was really just a kid when I invented it. Obviously, when I started writing, I had to add issues into it because there needed to be an actual plot for my series, but there are still those pockets in the world of Elkloria where people who live there can just enjoy the fact that they live in an awesome magical world. I would want to just live in one of those little oblivious areas in Elkloria as a wizard, just learning magic and experiencing the world I worked really hard to create.
Now, if I were banned from choosing my own world as the answer to this question, I would just have to say the Harry Potter universe. There's just so much to be explored in it. There's a magic system that I definitely want to see more of and experiment with, there's all sorts of awesome magical creatures, there's really interesting people... the Harry Potter universe would be really cool to be in.
I also like the Unwanteds universe. The society of Artime is (mostly) pretty utopian, and I prefer to think of myself as a creative person, which suggests I'd be quite good with magic. I'd really want to experiment with making magic in that world, and one huge thing that I would love to do is scientifically study the magic of both the Potterverse and Artime. It would be really interesting if I could break spellmaking (or whatever) down to a science that could allow for very complex spellcraft.
Now, if I were banned from choosing my own world as the answer to this question, I would just have to say the Harry Potter universe. There's just so much to be explored in it. There's a magic system that I definitely want to see more of and experiment with, there's all sorts of awesome magical creatures, there's really interesting people... the Harry Potter universe would be really cool to be in.
I also like the Unwanteds universe. The society of Artime is (mostly) pretty utopian, and I prefer to think of myself as a creative person, which suggests I'd be quite good with magic. I'd really want to experiment with making magic in that world, and one huge thing that I would love to do is scientifically study the magic of both the Potterverse and Artime. It would be really interesting if I could break spellmaking (or whatever) down to a science that could allow for very complex spellcraft.
Rishab Borah
I got the idea from a role-play I did with my friend when I was about eleven, which is when I first started coming up with the concepts of my series Elkloria. In this role play there were basically people who could shapeshift into dragons and use the magic of one elemental kingdom each. These dragon-people were trapped in a lab and studied by a bunch of crazy scientists. I wanted to expand this and somehow managed to create an entire alternate universe parallel to the normal universe with an entire country of wizards and elemental kingdoms including a dragon kingdom and wizards and demons and Fae and gods and fairies and angels and dark magical artificial intelligences...
Funnily enough, I lost interest in the dragons (mostly, though not entirely) and focused more on wizards, and the kingdom of the mind, which is known as Neurazia in the book.
Funnily enough, I lost interest in the dragons (mostly, though not entirely) and focused more on wizards, and the kingdom of the mind, which is known as Neurazia in the book.
Rishab Borah
One thing I love about writing is that I can live out scenarios that may not happen or might just be downright impossible to experience in real life. I'm not entirely sure if this is the 'best thing' for me (I usually find it hard to designate something as 'best'), because creating worlds is a close second. My preferred genres are fantasy and sci-fi because they allow room for the creation of entire worlds and systems that just flat-out couldn't exist in real life. Making worlds and interpreting magical or otherworldly concepts in books is one of my favorite things to do in writing. I go crazy with worldbuilding--I have pages and pages on stuff in the world of my series that may never appear in the series itself!
Rishab Borah
Usually, because my preferred genre is fantasy and sci-fi, my inspiration to write comes from realizing or learning a concept from either religion/mythology, history, or science. If I learn about an interesting fantasy-related, scientific, or mythological concept I might be inspired to write a little story about it, or perhaps a big story.
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