Tevun-Krus Special Edition #2: TK Presents AngusEcrivain... Apparently He Writes Sci-Fi, Too!

By Tevun Krus

In this, the second TK special to feature a rather prolific - though not the most prolific, by any stretch of the imagination! - contributor of short stories to the ezine, we focus on our co-founder, @AngusEcrivain

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tevun Krus
• Release date: Nov 9, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370612567

Tevun Krus

Ooorah originated on Wattpad way back in the heady days of 2011 with the sole intention of spreading Science Fiction to the masses and fighting the tyranny of teen romance and disturbing fan fiction. As a community, Ooorah has definitely grown over the years. We host multiple contests throughout the year (via our sister account accessible here - https://www.wattpad.com/user/LayethTheSmackDown ) but what we're really all about, what we're here for, is Tevun-Krus, our monthly ezine. Each month we tackle a different sub-genre of Science Fiction. Every ezine is available on Wattpad - https://www.wattpad.com/list/100469511-tevun-krus-wattpads-1-sci-fi-ezine - but in the interests of making ourselves and what we do known further afield, we're making each and every issue available here, FREE! We're all amateur writers, as are our contributors. That doesn't make what we do any the less awesome though, so your support is both appreciated and most awesome! Ooorah!

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Tevun-Krus Special #2

TK Presents @AngusEcrivain... Apparently He Writes Sci-Fi, Too...

Copyright 2016 Daniel A. Greathead

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In this, the second TK special to feature a rather prolific - though not the most prolific, by any stretch of the imagination! - contributor of short stories to the ezine, we focus on our co-founder, @AngusEcrivain.

Angus, you're pretty prolific, certainly when it comes to writing for us here at TK. What's that all about?

Well anyone who knows me knows I love to write - I mean, that's why we're here, right? - and Tevun-Krus gives that opportunity to anyone who wants to grab it by the horns and violate it roughly from the rear.

Oddly though, I never intended to write for TK. After the release of the first issue I'm sorry to say that I lost my momentum some. In fact it wasn't until a few months later when my good friend @parishsp shouted down my lug hole, "Oi! Angus! What the frak are you playing at, dude? TK has a shiteload of potential and you're just letting it stew in its own juices," or something like that anyways, I don't recall the exact conversation!

And then I really only started writing for TK to get things moving. SP and I had multiple conversations about where we saw the ezine going and where we wanted to be... Not quite a five year plan, but you get the point. Then I guess I kinda' couldn't stop, in fact I have to fight myself not to write for every issue - though it's fair to say I invariably contribute something each month, be it an article, review or my favoured short story!

If you had to select a favourite of all your TK submissions, which one would it be and why? Yes, I'm asking you to select your child!

'Alone in a Godless Universe and Out of Shake 'N Vac,' definitely... Sure I might have pinched the title of that piece from the mighty Red Dwarf but I don't think either Grant or Naylor would mind too much!

The reason it's my favourite is pretty simple, really. That's me. By that I mean the style of the piece, the 'humour,' although that is totally relative, of course! After all, one man's funny is another man's eulogy. But writing like that, particularly writing that short piece, comes so easily to me. I'm not entirely sure what that says about the state of the inside of my nogginbox, of course, though I think it's fair enough to say there's probably a sign somewhere in there, maybe situated upon a counter, stating, 'Back in 5 mins. Out to lunch.' Though I suspect the chances are that sign (that may or may not be there) has been there (if it is, indeed, there) for the past thirty-odd years!

Just take a look at 'Getting Stephen Laid,' and that'll tell you all you need to know!

What're your experiences writing Science Fiction outside of Tevun-Krus?

I'm a Sci-Fi writer. It was science fiction that started me writing, science fiction that I started off writing and science fiction that I'll write 'til, well... Y'know.

Half-Light, my second most popular story on Wattpad by reads - ZEDS (Season One) being the first - is pretty much what I want every Sci-Fi novel/show/movie to be; action-packed and bordering on the ludicrously insane. It deals with a multitude of sub-genres and mashes them together in ways that really, such things ought not be mashed. It works though, and I fucking love everything about that story. It's ongoing, too... In fact the most recent [insert number of chapters here because without looking I don't remember and I really can't be arsed to look right now] chapters were written over the course of three days as my entry to the 2015 3-Day Novel contest. 40K words or so. Not too shabby, really.

'Course my Sci-Fi writing doesn't stop there. Getting Stephen Laid, the Mars Inc. duology, The Day, Dream Girls, the Pearl of the Stars (soon to be, eventually) trilogy...

Basically, I fucking love to write Sci-Fi!

In your view, what is the best thing about Tevun-Krus?

Honestly, TK is fantastic. 'Course, being the co-founder - alongside the hugely talented @PlanetaryFlex who really doesn't spend as much time 'round these parts as I'd like - I might be biased and I probably am. But the success of the ezine speaks for itself. We have several regular contributors and a whole lotta' people who submit an article, review or short story when their busy schedules permit them time to do so.

TK is going from strength to strength, too. Not only are more and more people getting involved, not only are we adding new features every few months, but in my view the quality of content just keeps on getting better and better. All you have to do is look over the most recent few issues and you'll see that's a fact!

I think the absolute #1 best thing about Tevun-Krus though, is that it always has, currently is and looks set to continue to open up Science Fiction - the best genre of all, let's be honest folks - to a wider and wider audience. We - as in the Royal We, Wattpad's Sci-Fi community - are still vastly behind some of the larger more popular genres on this site - partly due, I think, to people's inability to differentiate between fantasy (sometimes horror and paranormal, too) and science fiction.

We're catching up though, definitely, and I'd like to think that TK is playing a semi-pivotal role in that race. Will we ever get there? Will Sci-Fi ever be as popular with Wattpad readers as romance or some of those fuckawful fanfics? Probably not, but that doesn't mean we're not gonna' try!

And finally, what advice can you give to someone who might be looking to write within a massive variety of Sci-Fi sub-genres, just as you have done and, to be fair, continue to do?

It doesn't matter what you're writing. Whether you write Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Romance, Mystery... There's only one piece of advice you'll ever need and that, my friends, is this.

Write for yourself. Write the story you want to tell. Don't write something just 'cos someone says you should. Write your own story and do so to the very best of your ability and then next time, the very best of your ability will be a notch or two higher. Love what you write because if you don't, it'll be shite!

And, well yes... I realise that was far more than one piece of advice, but hey...

Alone in a Godless Universe, and Out of Shake 'N Vac

There's more than one way to skin a cat. That's how the saying goes, right? But let's be honest; when you really get down to the nitty gritty, when you delve deep into the murky depths and curl the wrinkled tips of your grubby little fingers around what you really, really hope isn't the chicken tikka masala from that dodgy Indian at the end of the street, it all boils down to one thing... Whichever way you look at it, if you're not removing the skin then you're doing it wrong.

Of course, you try telling that to the Cat Skinners of Eck'hi Poot and they'll be like, "yeah whatever, dude," but to be perfectly candid the Cat Skinners of Eck'hi Poot can do one and besides, you'd actually have to find Eck'hi Poot first and given the fact that the world mentioned thrice in a paragraph probably too small to get away with such a thing orbits an incredibly tiny red dwarf star in one of only three inhabited star systems in a two-galaxy Micro-Universe contained within one of the many freckles upon the face of a fair-skinned, red haired bonnie lass who lives on a houseboat just outside Milton Keynes, the chances of anyone actually finding Eck'hi Poot or, indeed, stumbling across the Cat Skinners who reside upon the aforementioned planet are, to be fair, rather slim indeed.

In fact the only reason anyone, ever, in the history of everything, had heard of the planet mentioned several times in the above paragraph is due to the fact that Philip, No Last Name, an intern working towards a degree in Leisure and