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INTERVIEW with @pumpkinyara

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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu!☺

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So are you all ready to meet with our Today's guest of Let's Grab a Coffee☕ and Chat.

Interviewer: aiieeshaaadfff

And please welcome the Most Fabulous and Hard Working Author pumpkinyara 🤝

So yeah let's get started😙🤞

INTRODUCTION

Hey!

My name is Yara. Fun facts about me: I am from Turkey (The country not the food). I am 25 years old, a full-time engineer by day and a part-time wattpad author by night. I am a total extrovert, I am either at work, or hanging out with my friends or boyfriend. And then, when the night comes and I finally go home, I either read or write. I love to cook, but I barely have the time for it. I hate texting, I get scolded a lot about it. I am not a big fan of social media. I am both a dog and a cat-person. I live day by day and the only plan I have for the future at the moment is to make something big our of my career.

So yeh let's begin with our first question.

What inspired you to start writing?

I was searching for a book about revenge, but I couldn't find anything with the plot I had in mind, so I was like, Oh, I can write it then. Without thinking twice, I created a new story on wattpad, I started writing down everything I had in my mind and well, the rest is history.

When did you start writing?

First year of university. I was barely 17 years old. I was a baby xD

Have you always wanted to be a writer?

Nope! Never in a million years I would've thought I'd be actually creating characters and speaking in their name.

What comes first, the plot or the Characters?

It changes. When I first started writing, I had the plot and then, I started assigning characters that would fit within the plot, but as the characters developed, they started asking for their own stories, so that time, the plot came after (Like what happened with Alex's story, or Lilly and Chase ;) )

What is the most difficult part about writing for you?

To make a full story, you sometimes have to get out of your comfort zone to write scenes that will fit into the plot, or into the standards given by the writing committee. When writing such scenes, I feel out of character, like it's not me, so I hate the thing I am writing, then I feel disconnected and then writer's block starts. I really hate getting out of my comfort zone, but as a writer, I think sometimes, you're obliged to do so.

When you're writing an Emotional, Sad, Romantic scene,how did you get in the mood?

Before writing such scenes, I usually close my eyes and place myself in the character's shoes and I try to feel what they're feeling, then I just write down everything that comes to mind.

What was your most favorite part and least favorite part of the publishing Journey?

Favorite part, being able to let others see the characters the way I see them. It's so thrilling when you write something and hope your readers would read in between the lines and get your point, and they actually do. Feels amazing!