Fantasy Authors Interview

Meet MhavelN

We've got another awesome Fantasy author for you today. Hailing from the country of Peru, please welcome, MhavelN, and let's hear what they've got to say.

What is your country of origin?

Peru

What other languages aside from English can you speak fluently?

Spanish

Are you writing under a pseudonym? Is there a story as to how and why you came up with it? Please tell us about it!

My complete name is Mhavel Naveda, but decided to use just Mhavel N because it was shorter.

When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer? Why do you want to be a writer?

I imagined stories since I have memory. Mostly to play with my toys or tell my sister. When I was 14 I started writing them so I wouldn't forget about them. When I was 22 I found Wattpad and I saw there were other people also writing and posting their original stories in the website. I felt it was a safe place for them, so I posted my first book in Spanish. Before that, I didn't know what I did was "writing a book", I didn't even know there were different genres and that I started with scifi and fantasy when I was little. Thanks to Wattpad, I learned a lot of things about writing and about myself. I want to keep writing because the stories will never leave me. I love when my readers are enthusiastic about the things that happen in my books. I love to see their reactions, their comments, and I feel I am leaving some kind of print in this world.

Please tell us about your story/ies on Wattpad so that readers could find them.

In my Wattpad English profile I have two main books. Cat Eyes: Sirius, which is the first of a series of standalone books about a new human species, with better sight, smell and earing. Stronger and better adapted to the world that changed after global warming. They are a completely new culture with ther cons and pros, their festivals, their spiritual beliefs. It mixes some fantasy, scifi and romance. In this book, Marien has to team up with an evolved young man to learn about his culture and prevent humanity from destroying them. She then discovers they are not evil. Sirius is pretty "pure", innocent and sometimes he acts like a curious cat.

In "Adam: the last man", men got extinct. Women lead the world for centuries and they almost forgot how men looked like. The new men are few, smaller, short life span and they don't even talk. Teresa gets lost in some ruins and finds a young man in cryogenic state. She is afraid of him at first for how "big" he is compared to the new small men, but she hides him, getting to know him better, and helping him not to get caught because if the women find him, there will be chaos. This one is scifi-romance.

In the Spanish side, among others, I have a fantasy humor book. "The curse of the cliche" (La maldición del cliche) Karen wishes she had a better life, a funny one, and she finds herself trapped in a parody of all of her favorite books. Taking all the cliches and making its own universe.

For you, what is the importance of having a process in writing? Do you have a process? If so, please tell us about it. If not, why?

I think it is important to have at least some main ideas written down, and the characters notes, so you have them present and there are few, as I like to call, "plot holes". That is what I do, so I don't lose track of the story or my characters motivations, reactions, and so on.

What makes for an appealing character in Fantasy stories? Why?

As someone said, the world you created needs a character who lives in it. Apart from the genre. There has to be someone you need to attach to. I think setting a motivation for a character helps the reader to relate, to appeal. What they like, what is that thing that makes them feel real, even if there is a fantasy world. A character needs to be real.