#WriterWednesday with Sebastian de Castell
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I’d like to welcome Sebastian de Castell to the blog for #WriterWednesday!
Things you never want to run out of: ideas for new novels
Things you wish you’d never bought: preconceptions about writing from self-styled gurus
Hardest thing about being a writer: pushing through the first draft when the plot isn’t feeling right
Easiest thing about being a writer: being on author panels
Things you need for your writing sessions: absolute quiet and an uncluttered computer screen
Things that hamper your writing: ruminations about my career
A few of your favorite things: travel sling bags, unusual silver coins, tarot cards
Things you need to throw out: travel sling bags. I’ve literally got more than a dozen of them.
Words that describe you: storyteller, traveler, romantic
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: arrogant, forgetful, unfocused
Something you’re really good at: talking
Something you’re really bad at: listening
Favorite music or song: “Fall at Your Feet” by Crowded House
Music that drives you crazy: Lazy lyrics over a barely discernible melody on top of overused electronic drum patterns.
Favorite smell: my wife’s hair
Something that makes you hold your nose: our cats’ litter box
Things you’d walk a mile for: almost anything; I love walking
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: other people’s family dramas
Things you always put in your books: friendship and idealism
Things you never put in your books: other people’s family dramas
Favorite things to do: traveling, writing, cycling and ballroom dancing with my wife
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: filling out forms
Besides writing, what’s the most creative thing you’ve done: I used to choreograph swordfights for theatre productions
A project that didn’t quite turn out the way you planned it: Malevolent Seven. I never intended for it to be a published book and somehow it ended up being one of my most successful.
Things you never want to run out of: ideas for new novels
Things you wish you’d never bought: preconceptions about writing from self-styled gurus
Hardest thing about being a writer: pushing through the first draft when the plot isn’t feeling right
Easiest thing about being a writer: being on author panels
Things you need for your writing sessions: absolute quiet and an uncluttered computer screen
Things that hamper your writing: ruminations about my career
A few of your favorite things: travel sling bags, unusual silver coins, tarot cards
Things you need to throw out: travel sling bags. I’ve literally got more than a dozen of them.
Words that describe you: storyteller, traveler, romantic
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: arrogant, forgetful, unfocused
Something you’re really good at: talking
Something you’re really bad at: listening
Favorite music or song: Fall at Your Feet by Crowded House
Music that drives you crazy: Lazy lyrics over a barely discernible melody on top of overused electronic drum patterns.
Favorite smell: my wife’s hair
Something that makes you hold your nose: our cats’ litter box
Things you’d walk a mile for: almost anything; I love walking
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: other people’s family dramas
Things you always put in your books: friendship and idealism
Things you never put in your books: other people’s family dramas
Favorite things to do: traveling, writing, cycling and ballroom dancing with my wife
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: filling out forms
Besides writing, what’s the most creative thing you’ve done: I used to choreograph swordfights for theatre productions
A project that didn’t quite turn out the way you planned it: Malevolent Seven. I never intended for it to be a published book and somehow it ended up being one of my most successful.
About Sebastian:
Sebastien de Castell had just finished a degree in Archaeology when he started work on his first dig. Four hours later he realized how much he actually hated archaeology and left to pursue a very focused career as a musician, ombudsman, interaction designer, fight choreographer, teacher, project manager, actor, and product strategist. His only defence against the charge of unbridled dilettantism is that he genuinely likes doing these things and that, in one way or another, each of these fields plays a role in his writing. He sternly resists the accusation of being a Renaissance Man in the hopes that more people will label him that way.
Sebastien's acclaimed swashbuckling fantasy series, The Greatcoats. was shortlisted for both the 2014 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fantasy. the Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Debut, the Prix Imaginales for Best Foreign Work, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His YA fantasy series, Spellslinger, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and is published in more than a dozen languages.
Sebastien lives in Vancouver, Canada with his lovely wife and two belligerent cats.
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Website: www.decastell.com
