Blog Hop Interview!!
My friend, fellow writer WILLIAM STAFFORD roped me into doing this: four questions about what and how I write. He tagged me over twitter. I CANNOT DENY THE TAGGING!
Still, maybe it’ll be fun. And even if it isn’t, I still get to force three more people to do it, too!
1) What are you working on right now?
I’m kind of working on two books at the moment, along with college work and university applications. The first is, as you probably know, ‘Company of Heroes’, the second in the Buan trilogy, the start of the Treagsolas Saga. At present, it’s being edited, and I hope to get it out to beta-readers soon. The other is the final instalment of Buan, ‘Disciples of Blood’, which takes place only a few hours after ‘Company of Heroes’ finished. For those of you who haven’t read ‘The Perfect Mortals’ yet, the Buan trilogy is an epic fantasy story about a group of orphaned siblings chosen by their Goddess to take on the responsibility of saving their world. There is more to it than that, I swear to the Flying Spaghetti Monster! That’s just the best way of describing it in one sentence. You’ll have to read it to find out more! *No spoilers*
2) How does it differ from other work in its genre?
At first glance, the Buan books are rather standard. Some people with swords and magic fighting evil. But, after taking a quick trawl through the pages, it becomes clear that there’s more to it; there’s politics, diplomacy, war, sides within sides, and more facets than even I can count. The villains aren’t shown in the story until really, really late in the game, and perhaps the most powerful character in the whole story hasn’t even been shown his face yet. There are many sides to this story; it’s a Rubiks Cube with pages.
3) Why do you write what you do?
BECAUSE THE IDEAS WON’T LEAVE ME ALONE!!! I mean, because I like writing it. It’s not a secret that I think about these books almost every second of every day, unless I’m doing something else. When I first thought of the idea that would eventually evolve into the Buan books and then the Treagsolas saga, the thoughts took hold of something in my mind and have never let go. It was inspiration, pure and simple, and I felt honour-bound to write it until the end.
4) How does your writing process work?
This is a hard question; I haven’t done enough writing to have a set process yet. All I have is a desired process, which is start a book, write about 2000-5000 words a day, get the book done, stat editing it while getting a head start on the next one, finish editing the first while writing the second, and then publish the first, usually when the next is almost done. And repeat. So far, however, my process has been: start at 13, write a story for a year, edit it for two years, rewrite it into a trilogy, finish book one, start book two while having an editing fiasco, lose the 60,000 words I’ve already written of book two just before publishing book one, rewrite what of book two I lost, pick up where I left off on book two, finish book two and start book three while editing book two in the hopes of finally achieving my desired standard writing process. And bang my head against the wall if that doesn’t work.
Well, that was fun! Now, let’s see... I choose these three as my victims!
SEBASTIAN PETERS
BEN GALLEY
NICOLE MADDALO-DIXON
Still, maybe it’ll be fun. And even if it isn’t, I still get to force three more people to do it, too!
1) What are you working on right now?
I’m kind of working on two books at the moment, along with college work and university applications. The first is, as you probably know, ‘Company of Heroes’, the second in the Buan trilogy, the start of the Treagsolas Saga. At present, it’s being edited, and I hope to get it out to beta-readers soon. The other is the final instalment of Buan, ‘Disciples of Blood’, which takes place only a few hours after ‘Company of Heroes’ finished. For those of you who haven’t read ‘The Perfect Mortals’ yet, the Buan trilogy is an epic fantasy story about a group of orphaned siblings chosen by their Goddess to take on the responsibility of saving their world. There is more to it than that, I swear to the Flying Spaghetti Monster! That’s just the best way of describing it in one sentence. You’ll have to read it to find out more! *No spoilers*
2) How does it differ from other work in its genre?
At first glance, the Buan books are rather standard. Some people with swords and magic fighting evil. But, after taking a quick trawl through the pages, it becomes clear that there’s more to it; there’s politics, diplomacy, war, sides within sides, and more facets than even I can count. The villains aren’t shown in the story until really, really late in the game, and perhaps the most powerful character in the whole story hasn’t even been shown his face yet. There are many sides to this story; it’s a Rubiks Cube with pages.
3) Why do you write what you do?
BECAUSE THE IDEAS WON’T LEAVE ME ALONE!!! I mean, because I like writing it. It’s not a secret that I think about these books almost every second of every day, unless I’m doing something else. When I first thought of the idea that would eventually evolve into the Buan books and then the Treagsolas saga, the thoughts took hold of something in my mind and have never let go. It was inspiration, pure and simple, and I felt honour-bound to write it until the end.
4) How does your writing process work?
This is a hard question; I haven’t done enough writing to have a set process yet. All I have is a desired process, which is start a book, write about 2000-5000 words a day, get the book done, stat editing it while getting a head start on the next one, finish editing the first while writing the second, and then publish the first, usually when the next is almost done. And repeat. So far, however, my process has been: start at 13, write a story for a year, edit it for two years, rewrite it into a trilogy, finish book one, start book two while having an editing fiasco, lose the 60,000 words I’ve already written of book two just before publishing book one, rewrite what of book two I lost, pick up where I left off on book two, finish book two and start book three while editing book two in the hopes of finally achieving my desired standard writing process. And bang my head against the wall if that doesn’t work.
Well, that was fun! Now, let’s see... I choose these three as my victims!
SEBASTIAN PETERS
BEN GALLEY
NICOLE MADDALO-DIXON
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