We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Will Nuessle. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Will below.
Will, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.
I’ve made some lovely writing friends on Inkitt and one, GT, just happened to get hold of one of my books at a time when she really needed to escape. Like ‘hospital waiting room’ needed to escape. By her own admission being able to dive into a story I created, relate to characters that wouldn’t exist if not for me, helped her cope. Would be enough if it ended there BUT GT has a fourteen-year-old daughter who has big creative dreams of her own, and struggles with learning challenges. Reading is not the easiest for her. GT told me that after daughter Lexi threw a latest YA novel across the room in frustration, GT offered her my book. Hour or so later Lexi was “on Chapter Two and loving it.”
I offered an audio version for free – GT said Lexi, hearing it was available, turned it down. Wanted to stick with the one in her hands.
Later Lexi used that very book for a class project, went to the trouble of drawing a picture of my main character (my very first fan art!) and by all accounts had a wonderful time.
I hold out hopes of blessing hundreds of millions with my writing. As of this sentence I’ve impacted…we’ll say dozens.
But like the starfish story – I definitely blessed GT
And Lexi
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
45 next month, started trying to write my first novel in fifth grade, actually finished something in eighth grade, actually created something I can stand to read in my twenties, gave up writing shortly after turning thirty, God tricked me into starting up again exactly (to the day) ten years after I quit. Wrote a million words in the first twenty years, wrote another million in the past four. Novels, non-fiction, mini-series teleplays, screenplays. Set apart from others? Sheer cussedness, maybe? Thirty-five years in, I’m the best writer you’ve never heard of.
But see if that’s still the case in twelve-eighteen months.
I don’t have a brand. I’m supposed to, I hear. I just write and write and write and the world will know that writing soon enough.
What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?
Having work to do that I absolutely adore. Days where I’m not writing, even on vacation, are not as fun as the days where I am. I’m aware of how rare that is and how blessed I am
What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?
The next story. The next chapter. The next page. The next sentence. If I had a nickel for every ‘writer’s block’ post on social media every single day – there was a time when I wrote uphill, twenty years’ worth if I’m honest, but God and I dealt with my Perfectionism, now it can be what it is – and I love it so much. I just want to keep going and, God willing, bless others
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