INTERVIEW OF AUTHOR CH"KARA SILVERWOLF
Hi, readers and authors. I'm happy to present this interview with Australian author Ch'kara SilverWolf, who writes Fantasy. Her latest release is Daughter of Light & Dark – Book One of Prophecy of Nitesh.
Ch’kara SilverWolf lives in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges in Victoria, Australia with her partner and two beautiful Maine Coon cats. She travelled around the
world in her early twenties, and worked in the film industry in London for ten
years. Then spent a year travelling in America, and after returning to Australia
worked in Advertising, as well as doing volunteer work for several years in her
spare time, before settling down to write seriously. Daughter of Light & Dark
is her first full length novel, and is the first in a trilogy ‘Prophecy of
Nitesh’. She has written many short stories and a few not quite finished
novels.
Ch'kara has always had a love of fantasy, magik, and the esoteric. Her interests are in "storytelling, medieval folk lore & myth, fantasy art". She loves the characters from her writing, and has always loved mystical and fantasy creatures. They are like old friends who come alive on the pages.
COVER:
Ch'Kara, tell us where the idea for this book came from?
I had been toying with the idea of it, when one day I was in a bank and the teller’s name was Montayna.. Right then and there the story unfolded and my main character was born.
Her name stirred your writer's imagination. We never know where or when the muse will sit on our shoulders. What are your other published works?
I have several short stories, which in time will probably be expanded to add other stories to each of them.
The Boy In The Tower
Chloe’s Magik
Takes From the Sacred Forest
When The World Cracked
Hi, readers and authors. I'm happy to present this interview with Australian author Ch'kara SilverWolf, who writes Fantasy. Her latest release is Daughter of Light & Dark – Book One of Prophecy of Nitesh.
Ch’kara SilverWolf lives in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges in Victoria, Australia with her partner and two beautiful Maine Coon cats. She travelled around the
world in her early twenties, and worked in the film industry in London for ten
years. Then spent a year travelling in America, and after returning to Australia
worked in Advertising, as well as doing volunteer work for several years in her
spare time, before settling down to write seriously. Daughter of Light & Dark
is her first full length novel, and is the first in a trilogy ‘Prophecy of
Nitesh’. She has written many short stories and a few not quite finished
novels.
Ch'kara has always had a love of fantasy, magik, and the esoteric. Her interests are in "storytelling, medieval folk lore & myth, fantasy art". She loves the characters from her writing, and has always loved mystical and fantasy creatures. They are like old friends who come alive on the pages.
COVER:
Ch'Kara, tell us where the idea for this book came from?
I had been toying with the idea of it, when one day I was in a bank and the teller’s name was Montayna.. Right then and there the story unfolded and my main character was born.
Her name stirred your writer's imagination. We never know where or when the muse will sit on our shoulders. What are your other published works?
I have several short stories, which in time will probably be expanded to add other stories to each of them.
The Boy In The Tower
Chloe’s Magik
Takes From the Sacred Forest
When The World Cracked
Fascinating titles, Ch'Kara. I especially like "When the World Cracked."
What would you say are the perks and the disadvantages of the writer's life?
The perks are that I can write anytime and anywhere. I go to work in my pyjamas curled up on the sofa with a notebook and pen. I really don’t see any disadvantages in that. The only thing possibly is when one of my characters does not want to go the way I want them to.
I think we writers have all had that experience, Ch'Kara.. We bring our characters to life, and then they go their own way. LOL. You're a very spiritual person. Does that influence your subject matter? If so, in what way?
I suppose in some ways it does. I have a strong connection to Spirit and the ‘Other Realms’ and they tend to be the basis of most of my work.
I think our readers and authors would be interested in your writing process. Do you develop characters first, then find a plot to suit them, or is it the other way around? Or do you have a different method of developing a story?
Now that’s an interesting one. When I am working on a story, often the characters just ‘pop in’ and introduce themselves and then we go from
there. For me, it’s often like someone is telling me a story in my head and I am taking dictation. I am not really a planner, although sometimes the story gets ahead of my ability to take it down quick enough. So I do have to jot down notes.
Good reason to keep a pen and pad handy. Generally, how many times do you rewrite a scene or chapter?
I handwrite to begin with. For me it’s the flow of the pen on
the paper that inspires me. I have tried sitting in front of the computer screen and nothing comes to me. So I think whatever works is the way to go. When I type my work into the computer that’s when I do rewrites if I feel it’s necessary.
Do you ever wonder where the ideas, characters, story lines are coming from? Do you ever feel that it's outside of yourself?
Absolutely, as I said earlier, it’s often like I am being told the story by my Muse. The characters come and say hello and from there we create a relationship.
It's a relationship that's as real as our friends, isn't it? Do you have an imaginary reader looking over your shoulder when you write, and letting you know his/her favorite scenes and those you should dump?
LOL, god yes. I have written some things and then when I go to type it up, I hear my ‘imaginary reader’ saying “what were you thinking”.
Me too. Edger Allen Poe said that his wastepaper basket was full of good lines, and I paraphrase. "There was just no place for them." Do you find yourself "killing off your precious little darlings," as they're called?
Unfortunately no, I have a box that I keep with thoughts, ideas, and phrases. I can’t bear to get rid of them. Who knows, maybe one day when I look through
the box a new inspiration will be born.
Do you "write" even when you're not at the computer, or with pen in hand, thinking about characters' lines and/or story lines? If so, does it interfere with reality? Have you ever forgotten where you are and why you're there because in your mind you're somewhere else?
God yes, my husband says he can tell when I have ‘gone to my other worlds’. All of our friends are used to me suddenly pulling out my notebook to write stuff down. They just smile knowingly as they accept in their eyes I am a little eccentric.
It's part of being a writer, no? When you finish writing a book, do you have a hard time saying goodbye to your characters and their world, a bit like post-partum depression? Or maybe closer to sending the kid off on a school bus that first day.
Well I haven’t come to the end of my series yet, and my short stories have the potential to go further, but I imagine I won’t like saying goodbye.
Me either. What keeps you busy and happy when you're not writing?
I love to work in our beautiful gardens. We live next door to a forest where deer roam free, in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges in Australia. I also design and create medieval/mystical clothes for fun.
I'll bet they're beautiful.. Is there anything you'd like to add, Ch'Kara?
Thanks Jean for this opportunity to connect with your followers.
Thank you for a fine interview, Ch'kara Silverwoilf.
Blessed be.
Hi, readers and authors. I'm happy to present this interview with Ch'kara SilverWolf, who writes Fantasy. Her latest release is Daughter of Light &
Dark – Book One of Prophecy of Nitesh.
BIO: Ch’kara SilverWolf lives in the beautiful
Dandenong Ranges in Victoria, Australia, with her partner and two beautiful Maine Coon cats.
She travelled around the world in her early twenties, and worked in the film industry in London for ten years. Then she spent a year travelling in America, and after returning to Australia, she worked in Advertising, as well as doing volunteer work for several years in her
spare time, before settling down to write seriously. Daughter of Light & Dark
is her first full length novel, and is the first in a trilogy ‘Prophecy of Nitesh'. She has written many short stories and a few not quite finished
novels.
Ch'kara has always had a love of fantasy, magik and the esoteric. Her interests are in "storytelling, medieval folk lore & myth, and fantasy art." She loves the characters from
her writing, and has always loved mystical and fantasy creatures, they are like old friends who come alive on the pages.
PHOTO:
COVER:
Ch'Kara, tell us where the idea for Daughters of light and Dark came from.
I had been toying with the idea of it, when one day I was in a bank and the teller’s name was Montayna. Right then and there the story unfolded and my main character was born.
A real revelation. What are your other published works?
I have several short stories, which in time, I will probably expand to add other stories to each of them:
The Boy In The Tower
Chloe’s Magik
Tales From the Sacred Forest
When The World Cracked
Those are fascinating titles. What would you say are the perks and the disadvantages of the writer's life?
The perks are that I can write anytime and anywhere. I go to work in my pyjamas, curled up on the sofa with a notebook and pen. I really don’t see any disadvantages in that. The only thing possibly is when one of my characters does not want to go the way I want them to.
I know the feeling, Ch'kara, you're a very spiritual person. Does that influence your subject matter? If so, in what way?
I suppose in some ways it does. I have a strong connection to Spirit and the ‘Other Realms’ and they tend to be the basis of most of my work.
I think our readers and authors would be interested in your writing process. Do you develop characters first, then find a plot to suit
them, or is it the other way around? Or do you have a different method of developing a story?
Now that’s an interesting one. When I am working on a story, often the characters just ‘pop in’ and introduce themselves and then we go from there. For me, it’s often like someone
is telling me a story in my head and I am taking dictation. I am not really a planner, although sometimes the story gets ahead of my ability to take it down quick enough. So I do have to jot down notes.
That sounds a lot like my process, too.
Generally, how many times do you rewrite a scene or chapter?
I handwrite to begin with. For me, it’s the flow of the pen on the paper that inspires me. I have tried sitting in front of the computer screen and nothing comes to me. So I think whatever works is the way to go. When I type my work into the computer, that’s when I do rewrites if I feel it’s necessary.
Do you ever wonder where the ideas, characters,
storylines are coming from? Do you ever feel that it's outside of yourself?
Absolutely, as I said earlier, it’s often like I am being told the story by my Muse. The characters come and say hello, and from there we create a relationship.
Do you have an imaginary reader looking over your
shoulder when you write, and letting you know his/her favorite scenes and those you should dump?
LOL, God yes. I have written some things and then when I go to type it up, I hear my ‘imaginary reader’ saying “what were you thinking."
Lol. Me too. Edger Allen Poe said that his wastepaper basket was full of good lines, and I paraphrase. "There was just no place for
them." Do you find yourself "killing off your precious little darlings"?
Unfortunately no. I have a box that I keep with thoughts, ideas, and phrases. I can’t bear to get rid of them. Who knows, maybe one day when I look through the box a new inspiration will be born.
That's very wise. Do you "write" even when you're not at the computer, or sitting with pen and paper? Do you still think about characters, lines of dialogue, and story lines? If so, does it
interfere with reality? Have you ever forgotten where you are and why you're there because in your mind you're somewhere else?
God yes, my husband says he can tell when I have ‘gone to my other worlds’. All of our friends are used to me suddenly pulling out my notebook to
write stuff down. They just smile knowingly
as they accept in their eyes I am a little eccentric.
All us writers are a little eccentric, Ch'Kara. It goes with the profession. When you finish writing a book, do you have a hard time saying goodbye to your characters and their world, a bit like post-partum depression? Or maybe closer to sending the kid off on a school bus that first day?
Well, I haven’t come to the end of my series yet, and my short stories have the potential to go further, but I imagine I won’t like saying goodbye.
I have a hard time with that, too. What keeps you busy and happy when you're not writing?
I love to work in our beautiful gardens. We live next door to a forest where deer roam free, in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges in Australia. I also design and create medieval/mystical clothes for fun.
The clothes must be beautiful. Is there anything you'd like to add, Ch'Kara?
Thanks Jean for this opportunity to connect with your followers.
And thank you for a fine interview, Ch'Kara.
Blessed be.
What would you say are the perks and the disadvantages of the writer's life?
The perks are that I can write anytime and anywhere. I go to work in my pyjamas curled up on the sofa with a notebook and pen. I really don’t see any disadvantages in that. The only thing possibly is when one of my characters does not want to go the way I want them to.
I think we writers have all had that experience, Ch'Kara.. We bring our characters to life, and then they go their own way. LOL. You're a very spiritual person. Does that influence your subject matter? If so, in what way?
I suppose in some ways it does. I have a strong connection to Spirit and the ‘Other Realms’ and they tend to be the basis of most of my work.
I think our readers and authors would be interested in your writing process. Do you develop characters first, then find a plot to suit them, or is it the other way around? Or do you have a different method of developing a story?
Now that’s an interesting one. When I am working on a story, often the characters just ‘pop in’ and introduce themselves and then we go from
there. For me, it’s often like someone is telling me a story in my head and I am taking dictation. I am not really a planner, although sometimes the story gets ahead of my ability to take it down quick enough. So I do have to jot down notes.
Good reason to keep a pen and pad handy. Generally, how many times do you rewrite a scene or chapter?
I handwrite to begin with. For me it’s the flow of the pen on
the paper that inspires me. I have tried sitting in front of the computer screen and nothing comes to me. So I think whatever works is the way to go. When I type my work into the computer that’s when I do rewrites if I feel it’s necessary.
Do you ever wonder where the ideas, characters, story lines are coming from? Do you ever feel that it's outside of yourself?
Absolutely, as I said earlier, it’s often like I am being told the story by my Muse. The characters come and say hello and from there we create a relationship.
It's a relationship that's as real as our friends, isn't it? Do you have an imaginary reader looking over your shoulder when you write, and letting you know his/her favorite scenes and those you should dump?
LOL, god yes. I have written some things and then when I go to type it up, I hear my ‘imaginary reader’ saying “what were you thinking”.
Me too. Edger Allen Poe said that his wastepaper basket was full of good lines, and I paraphrase. "There was just no place for them." Do you find yourself "killing off your precious little darlings," as they're called?
Unfortunately no, I have a box that I keep with thoughts, ideas, and phrases. I can’t bear to get rid of them. Who knows, maybe one day when I look through
the box a new inspiration will be born.
Do you "write" even when you're not at the computer, or with pen in hand, thinking about characters' lines and/or story lines? If so, does it interfere with reality? Have you ever forgotten where you are and why you're there because in your mind you're somewhere else?
God yes, my husband says he can tell when I have ‘gone to my other worlds’. All of our friends are used to me suddenly pulling out my notebook to write stuff down. They just smile knowingly as they accept in their eyes I am a little eccentric.
It's part of being a writer, no? When you finish writing a book, do you have a hard time saying goodbye to your characters and their world, a bit like post-partum depression? Or maybe closer to sending the kid off on a school bus that first day.
Well I haven’t come to the end of my series yet, and my short stories have the potential to go further, but I imagine I won’t like saying goodbye.
Me either. What keeps you busy and happy when you're not writing?
I love to work in our beautiful gardens. We live next door to a forest where deer roam free, in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges in Australia. I also design and create medieval/mystical clothes for fun.
I'll bet they're beautiful.. Is there anything you'd like to add, Ch'Kara?
Thanks Jean for this opportunity to connect with your followers.
Thank you for a fine interview, Ch'kara Silverwoilf.
Blessed be.
Hi, readers and authors. I'm happy to present this interview with Ch'kara SilverWolf, who writes Fantasy. Her latest release is Daughter of Light &
Dark – Book One of Prophecy of Nitesh.
BIO: Ch’kara SilverWolf lives in the beautiful
Dandenong Ranges in Victoria, Australia, with her partner and two beautiful Maine Coon cats.
She travelled around the world in her early twenties, and worked in the film industry in London for ten years. Then she spent a year travelling in America, and after returning to Australia, she worked in Advertising, as well as doing volunteer work for several years in her
spare time, before settling down to write seriously. Daughter of Light & Dark
is her first full length novel, and is the first in a trilogy ‘Prophecy of Nitesh'. She has written many short stories and a few not quite finished
novels.
Ch'kara has always had a love of fantasy, magik and the esoteric. Her interests are in "storytelling, medieval folk lore & myth, and fantasy art." She loves the characters from
her writing, and has always loved mystical and fantasy creatures, they are like old friends who come alive on the pages.
PHOTO:
COVER:
Ch'Kara, tell us where the idea for Daughters of light and Dark came from.
I had been toying with the idea of it, when one day I was in a bank and the teller’s name was Montayna. Right then and there the story unfolded and my main character was born.
A real revelation. What are your other published works?
I have several short stories, which in time, I will probably expand to add other stories to each of them:
The Boy In The Tower
Chloe’s Magik
Tales From the Sacred Forest
When The World Cracked
Those are fascinating titles. What would you say are the perks and the disadvantages of the writer's life?
The perks are that I can write anytime and anywhere. I go to work in my pyjamas, curled up on the sofa with a notebook and pen. I really don’t see any disadvantages in that. The only thing possibly is when one of my characters does not want to go the way I want them to.
I know the feeling, Ch'kara, you're a very spiritual person. Does that influence your subject matter? If so, in what way?
I suppose in some ways it does. I have a strong connection to Spirit and the ‘Other Realms’ and they tend to be the basis of most of my work.
I think our readers and authors would be interested in your writing process. Do you develop characters first, then find a plot to suit
them, or is it the other way around? Or do you have a different method of developing a story?
Now that’s an interesting one. When I am working on a story, often the characters just ‘pop in’ and introduce themselves and then we go from there. For me, it’s often like someone
is telling me a story in my head and I am taking dictation. I am not really a planner, although sometimes the story gets ahead of my ability to take it down quick enough. So I do have to jot down notes.
That sounds a lot like my process, too.
Generally, how many times do you rewrite a scene or chapter?
I handwrite to begin with. For me, it’s the flow of the pen on the paper that inspires me. I have tried sitting in front of the computer screen and nothing comes to me. So I think whatever works is the way to go. When I type my work into the computer, that’s when I do rewrites if I feel it’s necessary.
Do you ever wonder where the ideas, characters,
storylines are coming from? Do you ever feel that it's outside of yourself?
Absolutely, as I said earlier, it’s often like I am being told the story by my Muse. The characters come and say hello, and from there we create a relationship.
Do you have an imaginary reader looking over your
shoulder when you write, and letting you know his/her favorite scenes and those you should dump?
LOL, God yes. I have written some things and then when I go to type it up, I hear my ‘imaginary reader’ saying “what were you thinking."
Lol. Me too. Edger Allen Poe said that his wastepaper basket was full of good lines, and I paraphrase. "There was just no place for
them." Do you find yourself "killing off your precious little darlings"?
Unfortunately no. I have a box that I keep with thoughts, ideas, and phrases. I can’t bear to get rid of them. Who knows, maybe one day when I look through the box a new inspiration will be born.
That's very wise. Do you "write" even when you're not at the computer, or sitting with pen and paper? Do you still think about characters, lines of dialogue, and story lines? If so, does it
interfere with reality? Have you ever forgotten where you are and why you're there because in your mind you're somewhere else?
God yes, my husband says he can tell when I have ‘gone to my other worlds’. All of our friends are used to me suddenly pulling out my notebook to
write stuff down. They just smile knowingly
as they accept in their eyes I am a little eccentric.
All us writers are a little eccentric, Ch'Kara. It goes with the profession. When you finish writing a book, do you have a hard time saying goodbye to your characters and their world, a bit like post-partum depression? Or maybe closer to sending the kid off on a school bus that first day?
Well, I haven’t come to the end of my series yet, and my short stories have the potential to go further, but I imagine I won’t like saying goodbye.
I have a hard time with that, too. What keeps you busy and happy when you're not writing?
I love to work in our beautiful gardens. We live next door to a forest where deer roam free, in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges in Australia. I also design and create medieval/mystical clothes for fun.
The clothes must be beautiful. Is there anything you'd like to add, Ch'Kara?
Thanks Jean for this opportunity to connect with your followers.
And thank you for a fine interview, Ch'Kara.
Blessed be.
RDA, Alias Jules Rammis