About — Yehor Mirnov

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It all started when I was a kid. I know it sounds weird saying this after I just became a legal adult, but stay with me. I never wanted to be a writer. It wasn't any sort of calling, nor did I enjoy doing it. In fact, I hated writing essays at school. Young Yehor also wasn't a reader. When the literature exam came around, hundreds of YouTube videos with summaries became the most handy thing he could find.

That's how bad it was.

So how did I actually get to the point where I'm writing it on my phone right now, while being stuck between two sweaty beer bellies coming back from work?

I fell in love with music. And being the opinionated fuck that I am, I wanted to express my feelings.

Music reviews became a starting point in who I was, but also a cage. After some time of producing the same structured articles, I realized — there's so much more I want to talk about. Politics, sports, journey of becoming an adult. But none of it resonated — not with my audience, not anywhere I put it out.

So while I enjoyed writing the new stuff — none of it really stuck.

Lost isn't quite the right word, but it's the first that comes to mind.

I wondered who I actually was? Who was I even trying to reach?

After another failed self-improvement article that sounded like the recycled advice of one of the gurus — I sat in the library staring at my laptop, thinking what should I post about. Nothing really came to me, except the bad date I went on couple days ago. I thought to myself maybe that is a story. What if I put a self-improvement lesson in it but I present it not as the steps to follow, but as a scenario somebody might live in.

That's how my first ever fiction appeared. By accident.

Date at the Movies.

Date at the Movies is a very interesting story that established the fundamentals of the style I'm going for in a lot of my stories.

Be preachy, and impose your opinion while never actually show it.

It was a success.

Relative to my measurement of it, of course. People loved it. They cared for characters, and it was different. Different from anything I'd done before.

10 Ways To Get Disappointed in People was born right after it.

A combination of the non-fiction with the creative way to tangle the lessons I lived through into a story.

That was the real step to establishing what Yehor Mirnov now actually stands for.

So who's Yehor Mirnov, actually, after one year of serious fiction writing?

Ha, good one.

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I feel unreasonably attracted to broken people. Especially those who don't know they are broken. My stories lean into the darkness.

The reason is simple: I don't believe in good things. I don't mean this in a pessimistic, nihilistic way. The world we live in is very far from a bright place.

We live in a place full of murderers, a place where each day we lose 3000 people to suicide, a place where a mother can't go outside with a child after 10 PM. A place where wars destroy millions of innocent lives annually.

So if you want to get a good story, a rainbows-and-sunshine one, I'm not usually your guy for it.

I want to tell you a true story. Slap your face with things you keep running from.

And I myself keep running from.

Everyone has a real story. Mine is a Ukrainian refugee who lost his house over two times and tries to make it in a country he'd only seen on the map.

It's only a matter of time until my way of saying what I've lived through resonates with what someone else has lived through. That's the whole point of writing. Find like-minded people and tell your truth.

I want to help you see yourself in the story. Maybe find an answer to questions that bother you, see the consequences of too much darkness in your mind. Answer your wildest what-ifs.

Well, also, I just want to tell a really good, sometimes weird story.

Anyway, I'm starting to rant, and there's plenty more of that waiting for you in the stories.

You know, I've been talking about all of these things as if I'm this established author already with hundreds of agents, and there is, like, a big origin story behind me.

There is. But it's still in the making, and you're witnessing it right now. Which only makes it better.

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Right now, I'm working on my 2nd book and a short story collection, which will be out very soon. Think late 2026, or early 2027. English is not my first language, and it's probably really seen in my prose (not a compliment to myself).

But I will make sure that language never becomes a barrier for us to connect.

Alright, that's it for now.

Peace