Tevun-Krus #26 - Alternative Universe

Spotlight Author: Rollienelson

If you had to describe yourself in one word, what words wouldn't you use? 

Square, dumb, outgoing, modest.

What was your nickname at school?

Due to a strange situation having to due with my native heritage i had many nicknames. I'm a member of a indigenous native tribe from northern California. A tribe known now days as YUROK tribe. We don't live in teepees, we don't hunt buffalo. We love salmon.

When you were a young padowan, what did you want to be when you grew up?

A jedi knight. I was born in 1973 star wars was integral to me becoming the dreamy eyed slacker that I am today.

What is your favourite quote?

"Genius that talent that dazzles mortal eyes, is often perseverance in disguise." Calvin coolage

Other than writing, what hobbies do you have?

Mechanical genius, life long smartass (yes smartass was one of my nicknames in school, and the teacher did use it) and lifelong dreamer.

As your crew cast your lifeless body into the core of the nearest star, list three pieces of music likely to be rattling the bulkheads.

Let the bodies hit the floor. Stairway to heaven. One bourbon one scotch one beer.

If you were one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which one would you be and why?

Pestilence, cause that's just how I roll.

What was the first piece of writing you were ever truly proud to have written?

My 1987 letter of appeal to judge weir for a lenient time consideration. It was a fucking tear jerker.

Who is your all-time favourite author? How much - if at all - have they influenced your writing style?

Damn. I wish you had put categories. But, back to the wall, it would have to be the Organlegger himself, Larry Niven. Now I know a few young bucks and now doubt a few does just said "huh". Let me straighten that out. He wrote a story that was the inspiration for something you might recognise. HALO!

Do you have a muse?

Wendy Pini the creator of elfquest.

Walk us through your writing process.

I write in the mornings and late at night. I edit when I have the odd moment of enthusiasm.

How do you begin and how do you decide when a story is done?

I have no discipline in writing. I don't use an outline. Or anything but what's rattling around in my little cranium. And as for the ending that was causing an issue, so I put it in the beginning and then I just went on writing. And I've kept on writing. But quite honestly, the gods honest truth, I don't really know what I'm doing, I don't know how to end a story. That is the reason I originally started writing short stories for Ooorah in the first place, practice.