James Cardona asked Vardan Partamyan:

When and where do you write? Can you write anywhere or does the location have to be quiet and alone? Do you have any rituals that you do when you write?

Vardan Partamyan Hey James, thank you very much for your question...naturally the where and when of writing are very important. I cannot write when I am at work and similarly I cannot write when I am home. There are a number of locations around town where I feel the right vibe to sit down and plunge into the abyss of imagination. These places could be cafes or small coffee shops - not too overrun with clientele but still not completely deserted. If I were to single out one ritual that precedes every writing session is reading the entire material I have written so far. That makes for an increasingly longer writing session but also that way you are able to keep the flow and the rhythm and the mood of the story intact. The mood is especially important as the tonal jumps are possible based on your current condition, which must not affect your writing material. While the writing itself is done in the places I described above, the overall creative process is incessant. You get an idea, you get a piece of the dialogue, you get a situation and a conflict and a twist that you really feel would go well with the story. That is when I take my phone and write the gist of the idea as a note to self. These notes are disjointed and look a lot like random hallucinations but they help me remember, reconstruct and develop the idea I had.

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