10 Questions with Writer Dan Kind (@DanHKind)
This Author Spotlight features Dan H. Kind, writer of fantasy and speculative fiction, and author of the hilarious and irreverent novel THE FOUNTAIN OF EDEN . 1) How did you get into writing? I read a lot, I have an overactive imagination, and I'd always wanted to write fiction. But after school I set this ambition aside, except for jotting down the occasional line of bad (and I mean horrible) poetry. Three years later, summer 2001, I attended a Phish show, a habit I retain to this day. During an insanely long Slave to the Traffic Light jam, it was as if the music opened up some unused part of my brain. Right then an idea hit me for a novel. A year later that idea was still stuck in my head and I thought, “It's now or never,” and began writing. Since then I've been hooked. Creating universes is highly addictive. 2) What do you like best (or least) about writing? Least: that I have so little time to do it. Most: world-building, and when that little plot pr