Ask the Author: Nicolas Wilson
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Nicolas Wilson
Thanks so much, Logan. I just set up a book page for the Singularity. I'm hit or miss with that stuff, unfortunately. It makes it up here eventually, but not always in a particularly timely manner.
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As to where the idea came from, it all came down to Chris Mereta. I forget where I made the leap to time travel, but I heard stories of football players with traumatic brain injuries, and the way that affected them into retirement, and it just... caught my attention. Disability doesn't get a lot of attention, especially invisible disabilities, but they can have such far-reaching consequences, even without all of the time travel stuff. The Singularity ALL came down to Chris and Morgan's struggles.
Thanks!
Nic
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
As to where the idea came from, it all came down to Chris Mereta. I forget where I made the leap to time travel, but I heard stories of football players with traumatic brain injuries, and the way that affected them into retirement, and it just... caught my attention. Disability doesn't get a lot of attention, especially invisible disabilities, but they can have such far-reaching consequences, even without all of the time travel stuff. The Singularity ALL came down to Chris and Morgan's struggles.
Thanks!
Nic
Nicolas Wilson
Expect that it'll take a long time to develop your ideas about writing, concepts, plotting. Set achievable goals, and keep to them. For several years, mine was a new short story every week. It gave me the opportunity to work with a lot of characters I would have had a difficult time expanding into full novels, and to develop my voice and plotting skills. I don't recommend just jumping into a full novel. The more experience you have writing from diverse viewpoints, the easier it will be to incorporate that into your writing on longer projects, to craft more realistic and quirky characters.
Nicolas Wilson
Seeing as how I'm sequeling, right now, I'm continuing old ideas. Coming up in November, I'll be writing a full novel in a month and posting a chapter daily, as it's written, until the whole manuscript is out. The project is a cyberpunk dystopia, Next of Kin. It follows a future in which the police are no longer trusted by the public, and crimes are investigated by the victim's next of kin.
I'm not really sure where the idea came from- I have far more ideas than I ever end up using, and rarely make the connection about why I got the idea before the draft is finished. Mainly, it's noir-ish and I enjoy writing that style. It also kind of ties in with a short story I wrote years ago, Save As, in the connections between technology, biology, and psychology. So in some ways, even as I outline it, it feels like coming home.
I'm not really sure where the idea came from- I have far more ideas than I ever end up using, and rarely make the connection about why I got the idea before the draft is finished. Mainly, it's noir-ish and I enjoy writing that style. It also kind of ties in with a short story I wrote years ago, Save As, in the connections between technology, biology, and psychology. So in some ways, even as I outline it, it feels like coming home.
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