Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
This will be the first time that I’ve written a full-length book and published it on the internet. Before this, I’ve always written only for myself about the things that’s running around in my head. I’m an introvert and I usually like to observe and examine everything that’s around me when I’m out or hanging around of people.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
‘Searching for Mortality: Remember Death’ is basically my first attempt to write a full-length novel and published it myself, you could call it a passion project if you like. The story is loosely inspired by the existential crisis that I had during my time in college.
Originally, I’m planning on writing a different story from one of the many drafts that been piling up in my notebook up to this point. But considering that I don’t have any prior knowledge about any of this, I’ve decided to come up with something new from the ground up, a prequel, and if it goes well(hopefully) it would be the setup to the main series.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’m a big fan of Albert Camus and Haruki Murakami.
What are you working on now?
I’ve been busy lately but hopefully, I could take some time off this year to start writing again.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Musicians should go to a yard sale and buy an old f****** drum set and get in their garage and just suck. And get their friends to come in and they’ll suck, too. And then they’ll f******* start playing and they’ll have the best time they’ve ever had in their lives and then all of a sudden they’ll become Nirvana.” -Dave Grohl.
It got nothing to do about being a writer, but it somehow managed to help me a little bit in making the jump to write something.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
The Strange by Albert Camus, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami, Restaurant of Love Regained by Ito Ogawa, and Voices of a Distant Star by Makoto Shinkai.
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