Inspirations

In order to write a novel, you must be inspired to create one. Inspiration can take minutes, weeks, months, or even years to come by. Many authors have great, honorable, and even weird inspirations to start writing a book and that is good. Suzanne Collins's, author of The Hunger Games series, inspiration for her bestselling series, The Hunger Games, was the Vietnam War for example. The author she idolized the most was none other than Edgar Allen Poe. In fact, School Wars: The Prophecy of Light's author, Yaniss Chougui, has a kind of a great/weird inspiration for writing his debut novel. It came during his sophomore year of high school (Yes, Mr. Yaniss did publish his book when he was a teenager).  He was on his school's Track and Field team, in which he mostly ran long distance. One day during a mile warm up, he noticed something. He envisioned that he and his colleagues are part of a battle patrol, protecting the school from danger. This imagery later became the iconic trackers, who are sent to spy on other schools. The inspiration continued during the beginning of Yaniss's junior year. It was during Cross Country season. His fellow runners inspired the Sunset Shadows's tracker unit. On top of that, the football players were also an inspiration for Yaniss writing his novel. During a three mile race, the Varsity football team were still practicing when he imagined the football players being the popular soldiers in the military. Some of the pads even inspired the schools in Bellum's armor. The fictional school in School Wars: The Prophecy of Light, Sunset Shadows, is based on Yaniss's high school, Raymond S. Kellis. Most of the characters in the novel are based on Yaniss's friends from high school. The funny part is the main protagonist of the book, Danny Starlight, is based on the author himself. Yaniss finally decided to start writing his debut novel on September 2014. It was published on December 2015.