Morpankh Awards - 2nd edition

«🦋» ──────» Interview (RowanCarver)

Taken by - nerd_positive

Author - RowanCarver

Achievement - 1st place in General Fiction

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Nerdy: Hello!

I am one of the interviewers of Kuru family who organized the Morpankh awards. Are you free for the interview?

Rowan: Oh sure!

Nerdy: Great then!

RowanCarver... a unique name please tell us the reason behind this name... any history?

Rowan: Haha no it's just my name. Most people think I'm a guy.

Nerdy: Oh... must be either amusing or irritating XDXD

Next I would like you to give a brief introduction about yourself.

Rowan: Yeah! I'm from North Carolina and I've been writing for ten years. I minored in literature and majored in music, right now I'm pursuing a masters in creative writing. I'm a heavy equipment operator at the moment and I play gigs and write in my free time, but aspire to be a copywriter so I can support myself as a pianist and a fiction writer a little easier down the line. I live with my girlfriend and my cat.

Nerdy: Oh great!! Seems like you have planned things out. :)

I went through your books the first few chapters and I found something intriguing... A note to judge. How did you get an idea to write one?

Rowan: Mostly because my work is based on some pretty obscure content, comic books and retro anime that most judges aren't familiar with. Combined with the violence it's written for a very specific audience. In order to place, I needed to write an explanation to accommodate a wider range of readers. If judges are too young, the story won't make sense, the prose is quite dense and complex. I also got tired of having points taken off because judges couldn't figure out King Eden is a woman.

Nerdy: A great solution :)

As a writer have you ever faced trouble in writing certain scenes or perhaps getting frustrated at them not coming out in a way as you want to.

Yeah the current chapter I'm writing I've been working on for three days because it's challenging, but I've never been stuck per say. Sometimes it takes some research to pull off certain scenes. I struggle with anything emotional or romantic because I don't read emotional or romantic books. And fight scenes are hard to write without it sounding like an eight year old describing the end of the Broly movie ("yeah and then that guy hit that guy and punched him into a mountain and then he blew him up with a blast but then *gasp* he came back") play by play can kill a fight scene, but finding the proper balance between describing action while providing exposition on how the mechanics of your magic system works as well as your character's strengths, abilities, and emotional response without using too much play by play is...really, really hard. It's doable and I try my best, but those are the scenes that take me the longest to write, because they can become lists of movements way too easily, thus losing the story. The fight scene I'm working on now, I've worked in it for at least four to five hours a day the past three days.

I've never really been frustrated or faced trouble though, but this stuff does require lots of patience and time.

Nerdy: Agreed writing a book requires patience and this brings about my next question. How did this whole idea of writing a magical system book come up in your mind?