Kyrylo is a unique and passionate writer who credits or states his inspiration for his works and love of writing to author John Green. Specifically to Green’s book “the fault in our star” which Kirylo states was “the first book I’ve ever read”. He also takes inspiration and looks up to the author Alice Oseman, and her books “Heartstopper” and “Solitaire”, all of which he very much enjoyed reading. The reason for his inspiration from these two authors was due to their style of writing and the authors abilities to create a connection and attachment between the readers and the characters. Kirylo believes both the authors write “in a very descriptive and truly real feeling way” as from his past experiences with literature it can be incredibly difficult to create attachment to the characters, but both authors are able to do it very well.
When asked how he starts writing or what his process is he states that more likely than not, he will end up starting by writing down a topic sentence or a paragraph. Then after that he would then google the topic that prompted his inspiration or that he is writing about or instead he would go through his phone gallery to seek inspiration and as soon as inspiration strikes him, he goes with the flow and writes till his hands get tired. After the initial round of writing, It’s time to look back and reread what was written and possibly add on more details, fix unclear sentences and add more examples, analogies and metaphors in order to make the writing stronger and more enjoyable.
Even though Kyrylo has his process for writing he may sometimes deviate from it when a new idea jumps out at him while he’s still working on a specific writing piece. As he writes he claims it is “easy for me to get distracted as I have ADHD”, and because of this he has a difficult time trying to focus on one topic or goal for a long period of time and would end up doing so called “side quests” while working on any particular piece. Most of the time he starts one, gets distracted, and then ends up finishing three or four other things and then gets back to the original.
Throughout his many experiences with writing, Kyrylo has had to overcome many hurdles and challenges. What he found to be the most challenging about writing is the starting sentence or two. He believes this to be the most challenging because you have to lure in the reader to be interested in what you have to say, you have to use specific word construction or an interesting topic for your work to even be considered read worthy. Additionally, as mentioned previously he finds it hard to keep the same narrative throughout the whole story, because a lot of the time his opinion shifts on things while he’s writing so in the end he usually ends up advocating for both sides of the argument in his writing piece.
Continuing on with his experiences with literature Kyrylo has seen many different types of writing styles and techniques and naturally he has developed his own style or type of writing. When asked if he has any weird or odd writing habits he answered “Absolutely”. Sometimes when he starts writing backwards, meaning instead of trying to think of an idea or an introduction he starts by making a conclusion paragraph. This is because he believes starting with a conclusion ends up giving him an outline for the whole piece and he also does it because it “just sounds right in my head for some reason” as he says. To add on, when he is unable to think of a word to describe something, instead of looking up descriptive adjectives or trying to find the specific word he just looks up images of the topic being written about and tries to make out a word to describe it himself. This process to him is more effective as opposed to simply looking up descriptions directly. He also tends to look for inspiration in articles about the topic in a language unknown to him, as later he ends up translating it into English, because he believes “country dialects and local sayings make up for a very creative and unique view on any given thing, which helps me come up with my own analogies and metaphors”. This habit helps to make him into the writer he is and contribute to the effort and passion he puts into his works.
