Today we’d like to introduce you to Shytei Corellian.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I wrote my first short story at age nine. I began writing novels at fourteen with a pen and college-ruled paper. I filled up reams. It was a wonderful time. No thoughts of writing for pay or publication, just pure need to narrate the stories in my head.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
The first challenge to myself and my work as a writer came when people began to ask if I was published. I had no idea how that worked and the further into the publishing side of things I felt I had to go the unhappier and more disillusioned I became. The simple act of being alone in a room and writing was the purest joy I’d ever known. Suddenly, as an adult that wasn’t enough. I had to be published in order to be a “real” Author. After rejections and a near miss, I was finally published by a VIZIA FICTION, a small publishing looking to publish Visionary Fiction. I was overjoyed. Not only had I found someone interested in publishing my work but they were passionate about my genre. Unfortunately, very soon after releasing my first novel, he passed away suddenly, and with him went the company and the small band of Visionary Fiction Authors he’d gathered together. A few months later, I was lucky enough to find another publisher, but we were only just finishing the editing process on the first novel when COVID hit and the rising costs of publishing forced them to drop their Fiction Imprint. I decided to self-publish under my own imprint, Arcturian Spacegate Imprints, and have five books currently available on Amazon.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I am a writer of Visionary and Epic Fiction.
I suppose what might set me apart is that I do not write in a traditional manner. I do not come up with a story, or imagine it, plot it out, or come up with an outline-beginning middle and end-before I start to write.
The seed ideas for my work come from dreams and memories of other lives and other worlds. As I start to write the whole of the story slowly reveals itself. The act of writing is the key to unfolding the story.
What do you like and dislike about the city?
What I love best about Utah is it’s natural wonders. Aside from writing, my most consistent work has been at a local ski resort. I love working and playing outside. I have a deep love for both the rocky mountains and the red rocks. There is nothing else like being in the mountains, on a trail, or under the stars taking part in nature.
I don’t love the traffic (having lived in Los Angeles for a few years the freeways here feel much like California did back in the 90’s), and I don’t love that I was born here, grew up here, and can now barely afford to continue to live here.
But Utah is still home and it doesn’t take too long to get out into the mountains and lose yourself on a trail, in a wooded meadow, or down by a river where you can be surprised by a family of skunks, a mother badger and her baby, or a proud moose using the same trail for the same reason you are: ease of travel. It’s a magical state, and its wonders never cease.
Contact Info:
- Website: http://shytei.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shyteicorellianauthor/
