18) Is there a certain type of scene that’s harder for you to write than others? Love? Action? Racy?
Definitely smut HAHAHAHAHA because I’m super vanilla in real life, despite all of my reading tastes, and I can write about it for a little while, but then I start getting embarrassed and if roomie is around me, I start feeling really shy about writing filth, so I just end up collapsing in a pile of fail, wondering what is the most classy word for a dick.
21) When did you decide to become a writer?
Gosh....Mmm, I’ve been writing stories as a hobby since forever. It started when I was seven and unsatisfied by the fact that the princess had to wait for people to rescue her, instead of just heading out herself and being badass. So at the time, I filled the sketchbook I had with bad handwriting and shitty plot story of my Mary-Sue princess who was me, but pretty and white, and did hilariously bad gel-pen drawings on the sides of the pages, and showed all of my friends and teachers, who politely told me it was wonderful, but didn’t really seem that interested.
I dropped out of it for a while, after that, though it was something in the back of my mind. Then I found the world of Artemis Fowl fanfiction, at age eleven, when I was searching for the official website and the graphic novel version of the second book on the internet, and started reading it. My mind practically exploded with everything I wanted to write, upon seeing what everyone else had put up there. At first, it was shitty songfic and self-inserts and everything, and I even got put on a list of worst authors ever, by someone who was really mean, but surprisingly, outright hate didn’t deter me as much as indifference had, because I became ashamed of my work and determined to improve.
And I slowly got better as I went through high school and my grammar, plots and ideas to better. I went though that pretentious stage where I considered all original characters to be the Devil and only sophisticated things to be worth my time, but I’ve relaxed a lot since then, and I write fairly well, and for pleasure (though I won’t deny that I am an attention seeker and LOVE it when people compliment my fics)
25) Do you write every day, 5 days a week – if not, when?
I write for the most part, when inspiration hits! Which is usually late at night, or when it’s most inconvenient for me to be writing, because ofc. I try to write at least a few sentences or plot something every single day, but I don’t always succeed. But when inspiration hits, and I’m free of things to do, I can just sit down and write and pure gold can flow out. That’s how masks and mirrors, submerged in your dreams and the spaces in between your words are like poetry, came into existence, over two or three frenzied days of writing, and I consider those two to be some of my best works ever. If I overthink any of my fic, I tend to be unsatisfied with the way they are written, or think about where I could have added things, or was my symbolism good enough, etc. That happened a lot during Willow and Steel and the lies etched underneath your skin, to the point where I can’t really reread them without cringing.
