Ask the Author: Roman Kurys
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Roman Kurys
Infertat’s main inspiration comes from drew my sister, Roxy and her lucid dreams.
Combined with my ever present thoughts about biblical end of times but more fun, (If that’s a thing), the story began to flesh itself out.
I sat down to write and the rest is history.
Combined with my ever present thoughts about biblical end of times but more fun, (If that’s a thing), the story began to flesh itself out.
I sat down to write and the rest is history.
Roman Kurys
I’ll be sitting here and idea comes. I write it down and add it to the list of about a gazillion ideas that I already have.
Yes, it is a very very long list.
Then I go back to doing nothing.
A year later, whatever idea is still buzzing in my head and surfaces here and there, that is going to be what I write about.
I don’t have timelines, I just sort of sit down and do it. Because it is there, and frankly I really want to know how it ends....
Yes, it is a very very long list.
Then I go back to doing nothing.
A year later, whatever idea is still buzzing in my head and surfaces here and there, that is going to be what I write about.
I don’t have timelines, I just sort of sit down and do it. Because it is there, and frankly I really want to know how it ends....
Roman Kurys
A historic fantasy novel set in 1600’s Ukraine. The novel is going to be named “Zavaliv..something”.
And yes, it is named after the town I was born in, and the story takes place there.
It is historically correct and happens during the turbulent times of Ukraine history when every country in Europe was fighting with someone.
In the midst of it all, we have a town, Cossacks, ancient Slavic deities, a witch and a lot of food.
And yes, it is named after the town I was born in, and the story takes place there.
It is historically correct and happens during the turbulent times of Ukraine history when every country in Europe was fighting with someone.
In the midst of it all, we have a town, Cossacks, ancient Slavic deities, a witch and a lot of food.
Roman Kurys
1. It is hard work. Be prepared for it, schedule your writing time and be there for it. Do NOT skip, like you would a leg day at a gym. Even if you just sit there at a chair and stare at your blank screen. Do it anyways. Things will come.
2. Disable wi-fi during your writing time. Whatever research you need to do, do it before hand. When it is time to write, there should be only you and your world, nothing else.
3. Read. Read. Read. EVERYTHING! Step out of your favorite genre, read stuff you hate, read stuff you love. Just read.
4. Write what you love. Is there a book you would love to read, but it doesn’t exist? Write that book.
5. Do not chase publishing. It is a business and it has a tons of rules that are completely outside of your control. Learn the ins and outs over time and continue to submit your query letters, but don’t chase it. Just write stuff you want to.
2. Disable wi-fi during your writing time. Whatever research you need to do, do it before hand. When it is time to write, there should be only you and your world, nothing else.
3. Read. Read. Read. EVERYTHING! Step out of your favorite genre, read stuff you hate, read stuff you love. Just read.
4. Write what you love. Is there a book you would love to read, but it doesn’t exist? Write that book.
5. Do not chase publishing. It is a business and it has a tons of rules that are completely outside of your control. Learn the ins and outs over time and continue to submit your query letters, but don’t chase it. Just write stuff you want to.
Roman Kurys
I get to create. Entire new world, if I feel I want to. It has some sort of a almost spiritual feeling to it. What if the world I create on the page continues to live when I close the file or the book. What if us, here on Earth, have been created in the same way by some writer?
Roman Kurys
I just do some other stuff that I like to do.
Mainly: read, go for a run or lift some weights.
Although I rarely find myself at a loss for words. Problem is a lack of time...
Mainly: read, go for a run or lift some weights.
Although I rarely find myself at a loss for words. Problem is a lack of time...
Roman Kurys
One day you wake up to find that all of your books have dissapared, so naturally, you panic and jump on Kindle to find your ebook library is also gone. A few more minutes online and you begin to realize that all of the books are seeminlgly gone and no one is panicing; it is as if books have never existed before, as if someone clicked a “delete” button and removed them as a concept, but forgot to erase this little detail from your memory...
Roman Kurys
Although this is totally overdone, but I really would like to travel through the Platform 9 3/4 and if I had a choice be a professor at Hogwarts. Or a writer. But I can be a writer here, Hogwarts, however remains a dream.
As a second choice, Robert Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” series often makes me wonder what it would be like to be a man who can channel and live there. Not anyone particularly important, that doesn’t matter, I just want to feel what challenging the OnePower feels like.
As a second choice, Robert Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” series often makes me wonder what it would be like to be a man who can channel and live there. Not anyone particularly important, that doesn’t matter, I just want to feel what challenging the OnePower feels like.
Roman Kurys
I’ve been meaning to adjust my reading list (which I craft for sometimes 4-5 years ahead...#issues) fo this summer.
I really want to read these, so I think I’ll be a rebel and go outside of the confines of my list :)
1. J. Kristoff “Nevernight”
2. E. Arden “Bear & Nightingale”
3. V. Schwab “Vicious”
4. M. Skelton “Endymion Spring”
5. L. Bardugo “Shadow and Bone”
I really want to read these, so I think I’ll be a rebel and go outside of the confines of my list :)
1. J. Kristoff “Nevernight”
2. E. Arden “Bear & Nightingale”
3. V. Schwab “Vicious”
4. M. Skelton “Endymion Spring”
5. L. Bardugo “Shadow and Bone”
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