We were lucky to catch up with Pierre Arseneault recently and have shared our conversation below.

Pierre , thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. What sort of legacy are you hoping to build. What do you think people will say about you after you are gone, what do you hope to be remembered for?

As both a writer and cartoonist, I simply enjoyed the creative process. I love creating something from nothing. Taking a mere smidge of inspiration and writing a short story or novel. As a cartoonist, this inspiration is similar although I feel it comes from a different part of the imagination. And what I would like my legacy to be is that I was a good, maybe even a great storyteller and artist. Enough so for my work to live on after I’m gone.

Pierre , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

As a writer, I don’t want to be stuck with a label making me one thing only. I don’t want to simply be known as a horror writer, even if that was how I started out. I’ve written short stories, novellas, and novels. I’ve written both solo and in collaboration as well. And while the greater part of this work is horror with subgenres such as paranormal, supernatural, science fiction, etc. I’ve also published dramas, comedies, and crime thrillers as well so my goal is to have a varied back catalogue of fiction.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can provide some insight – you never know who might benefit from the enlightenment.

A lot of people want to write for various reasons. Some want to the notoriety of being to say, I wrote that. Some want the glory of book signings and events where they get to shine. What most non-creatives and some would-be-creatives don’t realize is the amount of work that goes into getting a story down. The process of going through the motions to get it finished and out there for the public. The best insight or advice I could ever give is, learn to love the act of writing itself. The rest will follow if the efforts were in the writing.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

To me, the most rewarding part is having a project come to fruition. Even before anyone ever reads it, being able to hold the finished work is simply the best feeling as it means your idea was good enough to make it to completion. As a creative person, this is the best result one could ever hope for. Then and only then, can you worry about the public liking the work or not.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.pcatoons.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mysteriousink.ca/
• Other: https://www.facebook.com/pierre.c.arseneault/

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Image Credits

The horror short story collection Dark Tales for Dark Nights as well as the Oakwood Island series are written in collaboration with Angella Cormier.