Has that had any influence on your novels? In the bio on your site, you mention your strong love of poetry. So it took a long time, but it was totally worth it. I started buckling down and treating it like a professional job, and eight years later sold my first book. It wasn’t until college, though, that I took a writing class from Dave Wolverton and realized for the first time that writing could be an actual career in which one could actually make money. I wrote all through school, trying everything from short stories to novels to poetry to comicbooks I built puppets and wrote elaborate mythologies for them I wrote songs and scripts and experimented with every weird narrative device I could think of. I told my parents in second grade that I was going to be a writer, because they’d raised me to be a reader and I couldn’t think of anything more awesome than making up stories. Website Photo courtesy Micah Demoux How did you get into writing in the first place? He plays a lot of games, reads a lot of books, and eats a lot of food, which is pretty much the ideal life he imagined for himself as a child. He is a co-host on the podcast Writing Excuses, for which he has won a Hugo award and two Parsecs. Dan Wells is the author of the Partials sequence, the John Cleaver series, and several other novels and shorter works published all around the world.
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