Ask the Author: Kyle Noland
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Kyle Noland
I struggle at my desk until I'm smart enough to give it a rest and go live my life for a bit. You really can't rush the process too much, so if you try, you'll be left treading on bald tires. Take care of your mental health and take the breaks you need, then get back to it when you can. It's life, it ain't that serious, so have some fun and enjoy all that you do.
Kyle Noland
If you aspire to write, then write. It's fulfilling and, much in line with my personality, addictive. Start for fun and make as many mistakes as you can. Don't hold back any of it! Before you let "the rules" cage you in a place you were not meant to be, fly free and be wild. Then get a critique group together and learn how to make it all more practical.
Kyle Noland
I didn't so much "get" the idea as much as I brainstormed it out for years in my head until I couldn't take it any more and I had to write it. I daydream... a lot—on the commute to work, at work, on the way home, making dinner, showering, lying in bed—you name it.
Kyle Noland
I think about my mother writing after my father died when I was very young. My mother often escaped into writing romance novels. She never remarried or really even dated after my dad, which was over 30 years ago at this point! I'd read her handwritten pads of paper and see how she built a world in which love was never lost. It taught me how valuable fantasy (or fiction)is, and how it can save you from a world too hard to handle at times. I too need just as much saving from the real world as my mother did, so I write to survive, in a sense. When I absorb the world around me, it builds up as this sort of dark pool of energy. I write when I need to release it. I don't ever "do" anything to get inspired, the inspiration finds me, in little pockets of darkness and chaos of the world around me.
Kyle Noland
Besides the release of me debut, which is so close I'm sweating, I'm working on my second novel, a speculative fiction with elements of dark fantasy. It's a totally different breed of book than my debut, which makes it both much easier to write (because it's from one POV and it's in first person) and harder to get a tight grip on (because simplicity is hard for me to maintain for too long). I've got some exciting ideas about black and white illustrations to go into the book as well. But alas, my debut is the baby that needs me now.
Kyle Noland
The "side quest" adventures of discovering the main plot. Writing back stories and intricate details about how all the world functions, which never makes it to the final cut. The fun, and often outlandish, subplots and character deaths that I talk myself out of. Really, the creativity is by far the best part. Dreaming of worlds and people who could be real, if only the world worked like my brain does.
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