3Q’s – Dan Soule gets himself in a Jam!
Big, big fan of today’s guest! Dan Soule is a tireless promoter of others, as well as a talented author and burgeoning cover designer.
Really excited to introduce you all to Dan!
Welcome Dan!
Steve: What does your writing time look like? Do you try to write at the same time each day? Do you have a word count you attempt to hit?
Dan: Routine isn’t something I have the luxury of. I learned a while ago to write around other areas of my life, like family, work, martial arts. I believe that ‘you are what you do consistently.’ but I didn’t want an ‘ideal’ routine to be a reason not to write. So, I write wherever and when ever I can. Mostly, I find myself a space with my laptop and go. It’s the summer holidays as I write this and I’m off with the kids while my wife is at work. I get up when she does and grab a couple of hours writing before the kids emerge, if I’m luckily. Basically, If I keep writing a book will emerge. I am a little bit more ordered than that, like I outline before I write, and I re-outline as I go along, and generally I have a pretty tight draft structurally speaking, by the end. An editing phase comes next. That’s about it. Sometimes I listen to music, sometimes not. It all depends. Just do the work. I’m not an artist and an artisan, blue collar writer. I don’t lie around waiting for my muse and aching over my unrecognized creative genius.
Steve: If you could write a story for another author’s fictional world/series, which would it be and why?
Dan: I’m not a big reader of series, but I love the first three Alien movies and read some of the spin-off books. It would be an honour to be asked to write in that world, assuming I didn’t have to follow the lore that Ridley Scott arsed up in the last two movies.
Steve: Tell me about your newest release (novel/story/poem/novella) and why someone should read it!
Dan: My newest release is a novella (quite a long one) called THE JAM. Perhaps you can tell from the title, it is either a horror about a nightmare English afternoon tea party OR an horrific traffic jam. Basically, I thought a traffic jam was an under-utilised setting for a horror story. As authors we are always looking for ways to trap out characters and those strange, in between type of places are always a little creepy by their very nature. Also, it’s a realistic contrivance for putting a diverse set of characters together, who ordinarily wouldn’t meet in real life. Thereafter, I can’t say much. It is all about what caused the jam and ultimately how and if they can get out of what’s coming. I hope I throw some curve balls to the reader and it isn’t what they think it is going to be. Like all my books, I tried to make it much more about the characters, and in this one particularly a teenage boy called Max and the less than ideal relationship with his mother and father. Max does just have to escape the terror outside his vehicle but inside it too.
Awesome! Thank you so much, Dan! I appreciate you doing this!
To discover more of Dan’s work, check the links!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WriterDanSoule
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Soule/e/B01N7WNQBQ
Website: https://dansoule.com/blog/
