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Nicolas Hornyak

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Nicolas Hornyak is a writer and game designer from Jersey City, NJ. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he was raised upstate in Westchester County, where he would eventually attend the Lilly Lieb Port Creative Writing Program at Purchase College. While he studied there, he developed the world of the Flooded Earth, and the first four chapters of his debut novel would make up his senior thesis. He majored in creative writing with a minor in screenwriting, and graduated cum laude in 2015.

A survivor of leukemia, Nicolas is also half Puerto Rican and bisexual, and advocates for LGBT rights and diverse representation across various mediums. You can find out more about him and his other projects at www.nicolashornyak.com.

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Nicolas Hornyak At some point, Stephen King came to Jersey City on a book tour for "End of Watch" and my roommate snagged us tickets to go. Both of us put questions i…moreAt some point, Stephen King came to Jersey City on a book tour for "End of Watch" and my roommate snagged us tickets to go. Both of us put questions in the moderator's box, and both of them were selected. I asked what book he thought would stand the tests of time, to which he and the audience agreed on "The Stand" before discussing the notion of one's mortality in great depth.

To answer the question, however, my roommate asked him how he dealt with a project on those days where he couldn't make any headway. His answer was brutally simple, and almost too easy: "Wait for tomorrow."

In the end, he was right, and I've immensely respected him ever since.(less)
Nicolas Hornyak It is too easy for someone to tell you that the key to being a writer, or an artist of any kind, is to just do it. To just write that book, to just pa…moreIt is too easy for someone to tell you that the key to being a writer, or an artist of any kind, is to just do it. To just write that book, to just paint that picture, to just design that game.

An aspiring writer knows that it isn't so simple.

I'm going to offer something else: make writing a stabilizing point in your life. Even if you write gruesome scenes of horror, if you can walk away from your writing without carrying it like a burden, you will find satisfaction every time you return. It doesn't have to be the same time every week or every day, but you've got to explore why writing keeps you going and why you can't live without it. Once you start to find an answer, this path becomes a lot easier.(less)
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