Ask the Author: Chris Jankulovski
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Chris Jankulovski
I am inspired to inspire. I consider it a great honor and a significant achievement to inspire others. And for me inspiring means leading and helping. Inspiring is leadership in terms of fully embracing authenticity and integrity. This is something I don’t take lightly.
When I think about the readers, I get excited and gain the energy to write. I really feel like my life can matter and count if I’m able to make an impact and contribution to other people’s lives. And through my story, I believe I can. My story is powerful and needed in today’s society. Hence, I’m motivated to write for these reasons.
When I think about the readers, I get excited and gain the energy to write. I really feel like my life can matter and count if I’m able to make an impact and contribution to other people’s lives. And through my story, I believe I can. My story is powerful and needed in today’s society. Hence, I’m motivated to write for these reasons.
Chris Jankulovski
You wake up in your body that’s completely not behaving and responding in the way you remember. You try to get out of it, but you realise that this is your new reality.
Chris Jankulovski
Because I’m always struggling for my survival and fighting against my mortality, I’m just grateful to be alive and enjoying this reality. This is the world I’m fighting to stay in, so I don’t have a desire to go experience being in a fantasy world. My focus is to remain in this world as long as I can.
Chris Jankulovski
How directing energy and focus can become anyone’s superpower. I think that ability can be the theme of a fiction book.
Chris Jankulovski
With establishing a new business in America, running my Australian company, and now having just launched a book, I have temporarily put a hold on my reading ambitions.
Chris Jankulovski
Actually, I didn’t experience writer’s block because my story naturally flowed out of me when I was writing Near Death Lessons. I had no idea how I was going to start, but my story poured out of me and evolved. I had no set agenda on what I wanted to write. The writing process and planning the story structure of my book were an organic experience as I spent years working on my story. Throughout the process, I gained distinctions about the story and how to frame and direct it.
Chris Jankulovski
When I tell people I’m a businessman, I don’t see a twinkle in their eye. But when I tell them I’m an author, everyone has that twinkle in their eye. That’s the best thing about being a writer! And of course, being able to make a connection with people I have never met in my life is another perk I love about being an author.
Chris Jankulovski
I recommend that they start collecting stories, developing a library of these stories, and linking them to a timeline and putting them in a chronological order. This way they can stand back and see what stories they are working with.
I also advise them to share their raw materials to other writers to get guidance and feedback and help them with their story’s direction.
I also advise them to share their raw materials to other writers to get guidance and feedback and help them with their story’s direction.
Chris Jankulovski
I invested 6 years writing Near Death Lessons, which is my first book, and I've just launched it. I am not working on another book.
Chris Jankulovski
I initially wrote Near Death Lessons for my two young sons (a newborn and a 6-year-old) to know who their father was. I just had a brain operation that almost killed me where a tumour burst in my head, leaving me with extreme disabilities. After the operation and coming back home, I was worried that I was going to die.
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