Guest post written by author VK Tritschler
VK Tritschler is an author of romance genre fiction with plenty of sub-genres. She lives on the amazing Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, having moved there from her hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand. Her family consists of a very patient husband, two rampant boys, and plenty of pets.
She has a wonderful set of amazing writers who support her in the form of Eyre Writers, and in return, she offers crowd control services for the Youth section who are the future best-selling Australian authors.
Her first book “The Secret Life of Sarah Meads” was released in 2018 and since then she has participated in the NYC Writing Challenge, the Clunes Booktown, and helped organise and run the Eyre Writers Festival.
Her paranormal romance is “Magic & Mischief” with her story “Vital Impetus” which came out in July 2020. It was an anthology of magical stories from around the globe.
Her next novel “The Risky Business of Romance” was released in October 2020 – a romantic suspense set in rural South Australia. Her last novel – Trade Secrets is a rom-com based in Adelaide came out in December 2020. She has plans for several books this year, with the next due out in April 2021.
I think it’s vital as an author to ‘think big’. We are, after all, only limited by our own imaginations when we put down words on a page. But those ideas, and those stories, can influence readers for generations far beyond our own. We still think of the words of humans before us, who lives technically ended thousands of years ago. Had the cavemen had words beyond the drawings they created, I am sure they too would have influenced our modern thoughts and beliefs. Our democracy, freedom and concepts of time, the world and the universe are greatly influenced by authors be they famous or infamous. It is the inclusion of ‘big’ thoughts, which has separated us from other animals in the world and inspired us to become what we are today and will be in the future.
When I wrote Vital Impetus, as part of the Magic & Mischief Anthology, I just had one question on my mind. What if they were right?
I remember partaking one day in my childhood in a game of telephone. When the story started at one end, it mutated and moved into a totally different one by the end. It was my first understanding that stories were movable objects, which could be warped and altered in both the teller and the interpreter. And I began to wonder one fine afternoon, if it was possible that our whole understanding of the world around us was like a big game of telephone? Had someone told someone else a vital part of our historical understanding, and then it had all been lost somewhere along the passing of time? What would that mean for those of us who are trying to understanding things such as life, and death, today? So I grabbed pieces and portions of religion, science, math and mythology and began to weave them all together, just a snippet of each at a time. And what I came up with, is what I formed into my story. A story of powerful energies, multiple worlds, and the passing of life forces from one place to another. Universe jumping.
I think as humans we have all wondered what happens beyond what we can see. Where do we go when we die? What is a soul? But there is no easy answer out there to explain these things. There are plenty of options, ideas and theories. But each has its strengths and weaknesses. So it was fun to imagine what the answers might have been. Isn’t that, after all, what all big ideas really are? A guess? A concept or idea which might plausibly be true?
And I think that is what all great stories are too. They are a concept or idea that an author has dwelled on and pondered if this was the first link in the telephone chain. Truly big ideas are ones that look beyond the exact interpretation and start delving into the possibilities. Which is why I became an author. I wanted to explore the things we know, and the things we don’t. And what is more unexplained than romance? The feelings which are so beyond reasonable, and make us do wild and unexplained things. They challenge us to grow and change, and become something we weren’t before we met the other person. So I am going to continue to think bigger as an author, and explore all the possibilities. I can’t wait to find what the universe reveals along the way.
