First Interview
With excitement and a bit of nervousness—perhaps because it's my first interview—I'm sharing it with you.
TheIndieView, thank you for the opportunity. Your questions were very interesting. They made me reflect on the journey I've been through and the obstacles I've overcome—something I haven’t really done in such a concise way before. It felt a bit surreal to summarize it all—it’s almost hard to believe that I actually did it, I thought to myself 🙂.
To read the interview, follow the link: https://www.theindieview.com/2024/08/...
From the interview:
Ideas are everywhere around us, as long as you’re observant. Have you heard that before? Well, I’ve come to believe it’s true. I began writing this book with one idea—the theme of redemption and unpredictable repercussions of even the smallest choices.
The idea struck me years ago when, as a journalist, I was conducting interviews with underage youth serving sentences for various offenses—ranging from theft to murder. That’s when the idea for ‘I didn’t mean to’ started to take shape. One of the boys I interviewed coined the phrase, but it could be seen as an unintentional summary of all the interviews. They didn’t mean to do what they did, they would say. It happened almost in an instant, as an uncontrollable consequence of unforeseen circumstances. But what has happened is a fact.
In Bulgarian, ‘I didn’t mean to’ is often used by children when they want to excuse their actions. The young people I interviewed were between 14 and 17 years old. You could say they were still children, which is why they would say ‘I didn’t mean to.’ Children, but old enough to commit horrifying crimes.
At the time, that struck me deeply. I started the book. As I mentioned, I went through a long process where I developed sub-themes of the main theme or added others related to it. I think the ideas for them stemmed from one another as I wrote. For me, the driving questions have always been: To what extent do we have control over events?..
TheIndieView, thank you for the opportunity. Your questions were very interesting. They made me reflect on the journey I've been through and the obstacles I've overcome—something I haven’t really done in such a concise way before. It felt a bit surreal to summarize it all—it’s almost hard to believe that I actually did it, I thought to myself 🙂.
To read the interview, follow the link: https://www.theindieview.com/2024/08/...
From the interview:
Ideas are everywhere around us, as long as you’re observant. Have you heard that before? Well, I’ve come to believe it’s true. I began writing this book with one idea—the theme of redemption and unpredictable repercussions of even the smallest choices.
The idea struck me years ago when, as a journalist, I was conducting interviews with underage youth serving sentences for various offenses—ranging from theft to murder. That’s when the idea for ‘I didn’t mean to’ started to take shape. One of the boys I interviewed coined the phrase, but it could be seen as an unintentional summary of all the interviews. They didn’t mean to do what they did, they would say. It happened almost in an instant, as an uncontrollable consequence of unforeseen circumstances. But what has happened is a fact.
In Bulgarian, ‘I didn’t mean to’ is often used by children when they want to excuse their actions. The young people I interviewed were between 14 and 17 years old. You could say they were still children, which is why they would say ‘I didn’t mean to.’ Children, but old enough to commit horrifying crimes.
At the time, that struck me deeply. I started the book. As I mentioned, I went through a long process where I developed sub-themes of the main theme or added others related to it. I think the ideas for them stemmed from one another as I wrote. For me, the driving questions have always been: To what extent do we have control over events?..
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