Ask the Author: Kaivallya Dasu
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Kaivallya Dasu
Recently, my own experiences have been influencing me a lot more. I was very young when I wrote Enchantress of Elektra, so a lot of it was just a preteen with a hyperactive imagination going "wouldn't it be sO COOL IF-" and then just kind of going for it. Now that I'm older I tend to think a lot more about what I'm writing, and a lot of my ideas come from the experiences I've had since my EoE days. I do write slightly different styles depending on my mood - I've noticed I write dialogue in a good mood and introspection or description when I'm frustrated or upset. It's very variable though, sometimes I just have to do what I have to do and I can't let how I'm feeling at that moment interfere with that.
Kaivallya Dasu
This answer always changes for me. It depends very heavily on what I have been reading or watching lately. Most recently, I read Bram Stoker's Dracula, and I thought Mina and Jonathan Harker are incredibly underrated in pop culture given the sheer prevalence of Dracula/vampires in media.
Kaivallya Dasu
When I was really little, my teacher read the class the story of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf. Sounds normal, right? But this version was from the wolf's point of view. I found the idea fascinating, and that's what I did with my book "Enchantress of Elektra"- a pretty normal fantasy story of a fight for a kingdom, just narrated by the guy who loses the battle.
Kaivallya Dasu
This is literally the first question I ask anyone who's ever written a book. Seriously. Some of them say there's no such thing, they force themselves to sit and write, blah blah blah, but I disagree. Writer's block is definitely a "thing" and people just deal with it in different ways. I try to switch focus- go do something else instead of staring at a blinking cursor or a blank page. It usually works.
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