QuickTalk Friday Interview Series

Writing Fantasy Novels On a Train

Talking to JF Danskin about his process

Scot Butwell
QuickTalk
Published in
7 min readJun 3, 2022

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Photo credit: JF Danskin.

I’m having breakfast and JF Danskin is eating dinner.

That’s because there is an eight-hour time difference between us.

It’s 10 a.m. in California.

And 6 p.m in Scotland.

And that’s the wonderful thing about Medium. We’re making friends with other writers from all over the world and interacting across time and space as we share slices of ourselves and read and comment on each other’s stories.

Which is a good introduction to JF Danskin.

JF is a fantasy or sci-fi writer who has written seven novels, so he is comfortable switching from Ancient Greece to the dystopian future.

Do you have a dream of writing a novel? Then this story is for you.

Author’s nephew photo

Scot: How do you write seven novels while holding a job as a university academic and having a family with a wife, kids, and a Labradoodle?

J.F. Great question, Scot. Honestly, writing a novel isn’t for everyone…

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Scot Butwell
QuickTalk

I am embarrassing according to teenage son. My jokes are terrible and I don't know when to stop annoying my son. I am the dad of an autistic son. A funny kid.