Ask the Author: Daniel Cuervonegro
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Daniel Cuervonegro
Impossible to know for certain and I would not want to mislead anybody. I believe the many books I've read, videogames I've played and movies I've watched. The deaths of my dog and my father, certainly. The meetings and consequent love stories with my friends and loved ones... An endlessly cliched answer, yes. But an honest one.
Daniel Cuervonegro
It allows you to relate to the world in more honest and authentic ways. You identify issues that were previously invisible. You become empathetic to others, to history, to experience. You want to feel what others feel and imagine what it may be, and that exercise alone is enough to admit, if only for a second, that others actually do exist. That they are indeed there just like you. Writing also brings you closer to the idea of your own death, which is, of course, a means to value life and lose the fear of the inevitable.
Daniel Cuervonegro
More than writer's block, I suffer from "useless words," the writing of thousands of words that are useless story-wise and prose-wise. Yet, this is how I deal with the common issue of being stuck before a blank page and a cold keyboard. I simply write and write and write. Also, and this must have been said universally by most writers, I read and consume media. Fantasy media, hopefully, but almost anything will do.
Daniel Cuervonegro
I would find myself the happiest in a calm world, full of kindness and adventure. A place where I can write and explore the natural world, hopefully near the sea and the wind. The Legend of Zelda, with its Andean landscapes and gentle people, always appealed to me, perhaps because of how similar it seemed to my homeland. I think I could be happy there. If it has to be a place to visit, not live, I would love to visit Michael Ende's Fantastica and speak to the Old man in the Wandering Mountain.
Daniel Cuervonegro
I am reading The Dragon Reborn, third in the saga of The Wheel of Time. I follow some reviewers Online (Daniel Greene, for example) who recommend it, so I thought I'd give it a try. I'm also reading Our Mutual Friend, by Dickens, Seveneves, by Neil Stephenson, and Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts. I'm almost done with The Ramayana, Ramesh Menot's translation for western audiences.
Daniel Cuervonegro
When a writer fails, he can try again. If you believe what they say, that writing is telling the truth with lies, then you must know, not just believe, that the truth can wait. It is patient like the hour of your death. If your book needs to be written, it will be written, by you or others. Make sure it's by you by trying again. Fixing what's wrong. Putting the hours. And then continue until you're done.
Daniel Cuervonegro
The Second Episode of The Atlas of Dreams, a science fantasy book called "The Weight of Our Crimes." I'm also working on the art for the various places and characters in this fantasy world. you can check some of it at www.theatlasofdreams.com
Daniel Cuervonegro
I just make sure I write every single day. The ideas I start writing about motivate me to go on, sometimes creating entire tangential developments in a story that seemed small or pointless. I also feel the need to close loopholes or make sure things make sense historically and contextually. This means that I will go review the stories I read or learn of with a scrutinising, critical eye, and then go back to my own work and check to see If I'm making the same mistakes. This keeps me writing, even when trying to rest.
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