DUCKETT & DYER
I think it was a gradual build-up of consuming tv, movies, and – of course – books during my formative years. But the dam probably broke once we were assigned to read ‘The Hobbit’ in 7th grade. Reading that changed everything. I fell in love with the fantastic world building and the maps and absolutely everything about it. It also made creativity feel… accessible. I couldn’t make a movie or a TV show then… but I sure as hell could write a book and draw some maps. And that’s what I did – although it was absolutely awful.
‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, if that wasn’t obvious. If ‘The Hobbit’ laid the groundwork for me in terms of how worlds could be created and sagas planned out, ‘Hitchhiker’s’ revealed to me that everything didn’t have to be so serious all the time. And that, clearly, has stuck.
Great question. I’ll let you know when I figure it out. I think I just wrangle all my favorite things into one work and beat the utter shit out of it until it makes sense.
Don’t take advice from randos on the internet. But, if you’re going to take it from me: don’t try to write something perfect. Get something down on paper no matter how bad or stupid it is, because it’s a WHOLE LOT easier to fix something that doesn’t work that to create something perfect in one go.
