Ask the Author: Seth Giolle
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Seth Giolle
I know this isn't a good answer, but I can't think of any mysteries in my life. What's coming next? Maybe a book on what might have been, so a book exploring the many plot life threads that could have been if I'd made different choices?
Seth Giolle
I've been learning languages all summer and into this Winter, so books on Middle Egyptian, Latin, and Greek are on my list.
Seth Giolle
The world of Shannara would be tempting (from the works of Terry Brooks). As for what I'd do there, I'd tour the countryside and absorb the culture.
Seth Giolle
It depends. Sometimes, a story will just pop into my head, and I develop it while at work or walking to the bus. By the time I'm back at the apartment, the story has characters, a plot, and ending. Other times, I start with a picture of a mountain and start problem-solving out what might make a story of a mountain interesting. I come up with different ideas before finally going with the best one. It can also be someone suggesting one idea - which inspires a different one or a more advanced form of the first. Maybe it's the sight of a small pewter figurine or a broken toy that starts an idea growing!
Seth Giolle
Write. Never stop dreaming, and never stop working on perfecting every area of your writing. Your skills will only ever get stronger as long as you put in the time and effort, and imagination and heart, that the craft requires!
Seth Giolle
Being able to create worlds and come up with people, plots, dangers, and mysteries! As a writer, you're not walking along someone else's street, you're designing the planet and creating life from nothing. It's an invigorating power of the imagination!
Seth Giolle
I'm usually working on at least three projects at once, so if one novel isn't working, I try to work it out, but ultimately, I switch to the second book so I can get a healthy break from the first. This way, I avoid writer's block. When even this doesn't work, I brainstorm on paper to clear my ideas. Other times, I completely delete the challenging chapter and start fully fresh. I've been known to talk the issues out, usually with myself, or I doodle some ideas in the most recent writing notebook I'm filling. Another useful tool for me is video gaming. Getting lost in a video game helps me clear my head. When I return to writing, I see things more clearly and am usually over whatever block I came across.
Seth Giolle
I'm currently working on the third novel in Runes of Delagen series. The four heroes have returned from the Veshod having destroyed the evil that lived there, spreading its chaos to the living realm, but trouble is far from over for them, especially when dragons, dwarves, and spirits are conspiring against them. I'm also working on Book 9 of my Future Kings series. Angelina has uncovered a plot to kickstart another end of the world battle, and she's bound and determined to avoid any war and save both human and wizard kind any fresh wars. First, they must learn what their new nemesis has planned, and to do that, she and StarBen must travel to Egypt to learn what secrets they might uncover. And then there's the Car Frog book I just started, in cooperation with some others. It's a fun book about, well, Car Frogs.
Seth Giolle
My most recent book, Euphantius, was inspired by cartoons I watched as a child. I drew up a series of character and world sheets as a teenager that I'd planned on turning into my own cartoon one day. All these many years later, I'll admit that I'm not an artist, so I decided to turn the cartoon idea into a story, but it's at a future date, so I devised four prequel books, what became books one through four, to explain how the planetoid came to be out in space.
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