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<\/a>The road to Avenue <\/i>was a short one, in some ways. Ganske decided to send the novel off to every publisher he could find that was accepting science fiction and, in what he describes as an incredible streak of luck, he had a publisher interested within two weeks. But, it took a long time to get to that point: Ganske says his first published novel has been a long time coming and it\u2019s completely surreal to have it finally happen. Now 37, he first discovered his passion for writing at a young age and says the style in which he authored his book is a direct result of influence from the many great authors that he\u2019s enjoyed over time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first book that I read and loved was [Ernest Hemingway\u2019s] The Sun Also Rises<\/i> and I really liked the bare bones writing style and sophisticated dialogue,\u201d says Ganske. \u201cReading my book you\u2019ll notice that it\u2019s very minimalist and that was a style I emulated from Hemingway. It\u2019s kind of hard edge; you cut away all the fluff and just get down to it. Simple stories, complex ideas, and complex characters, that\u2019s what always spoke to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
His one true passion, Ganske has loved writing for as long as he can remember, and it didn\u2019t take him long to decide that this was the career he wanted to devote his life to.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always written, but I didn\u2019t start writing seriously until a little bit later, like after high school,\u201d he says. \u201cA lot of the stuff we read in school disgusted me. I just couldn\u2019t stand English class and so I really discovered books and writing for pure pleasure in my early 20s.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ganske says most writers, himself included, do it because they feel compelled to.<\/p>\n
\u201cI certainly don\u2019t do it for money, obviously; I do it because I\u2019ve always done it,\u201d he says. \u201cMy mother\u2019s told me stories about how when I was young I would write these little tiny novelettes and I\u2019d put price tags in the corners then go around trying to sell them to neighbours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pursuing his dream proved incredibly important for Ganske and he refused to let anything stand in his way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI took a few classes right out of high school, mostly because I felt pressured to, but I find writing to be a very solitary thing. Classes are good for being part of a writing community, bouncing ideas off of one another and reading each other\u2019s stuff, but it was never my thing as I\u2019m introverted and quiet,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
After working as a newspaper reporter for a short time in Alberta, he came back to Victoria and attended Camosun, albeit briefly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI attended Camosun for… saying \u2018one semester\u2019 would be stretching it,\u201d he says. \u201cI attended for a couple months and then I dropped out because ultimately I had one goal: I could focus entirely all of my brainpower on the writing and not on whatever silly paper was due in some class I didn\u2019t care about. And that\u2019s how I did it. Was it the right thing to do? I have no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite his uncertainty about his career path, Ganske has certainly kept busy. Though he\u2019s focussing on Idyllic Avenue<\/i> and its impending sequel at the moment, Ganske says he has written \u201czillions\u201d of short stories and has begun several other novels, which he hopes to get back to soon.<\/p>\n
As for what will happen in the sequel, Ganske says he doesn\u2019t know how his story will end.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a weird experience, being a writer,\u201d he says. \u201cYou sit down and you have a vague idea of what you want to write, but until you\u2019re actually doing it, you\u2019re never sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Idyllic Avenue, the first novel from local author Chad Ganske, is the end result of a life spent in the pursuit of writing. But the strange thing is that the sci-fi book, which follows Stanford \u201cSaturn\u201d Samuels (a man with an eye mutation that makes him \u201cimperfect\u201d) and his life on the distant planet of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-may-14-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9065,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063\/revisions\/9065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}