Meet The Authors Showcase Edition #2 (2 of 3)

A new showcase with @SketchySmollie

author of I Won't Die As A Villainess (IWDAAV)

1 what inspired the idea of your story?

I had just gotten into novels about people being reborn/transmirgrated into other worlds as cool and difficult characters. They each all had cool and different personalities and they overcame difficulties to try and survive as the person/character they had become. I was really into that and I became even more obsessed with finding those kinds of stories when I was introduced to the webcomic versions of them. As a digital artist myself, I was literally drooling over them (which sounds kind of weird ik, but its true). Before I even knew it, I had already came up with a whole plot with characters, ideas about the world they were in, and everything just started to build itself. So I got most of my inspiration from other webnovels and webcomics. 

2 what is something you struggled constructing with your story?

Definitely figuring out how the magical and supernatural properties of the world worked. In my story, there are different types of magic and I wanted them to stand out since they had a huge effect on the story's plot but actually figuring out how the levels and variations of it was super hard. I had to make up different terms, describe how powerful is 'super powerful' and how weak is 'super beginner weak' and that kinda gave me a lot of trouble. (It's still not all figured out yet but I'm working on it)

3 what did you enjoy writing most of your story?

At the moment, I love writing about what Ash assumes what the tyrant emperor is thinking because thats one of the only type of people she cant read/understand just by looking at them. Since both of them have no actual experience or understanding about human relations and emotions, their interactions and just the pair in general is just super fun to write about. They always assume the wrong things about each other and misunderstand each other so often but its funny like that because their both so cold and aloof about it that they cant confront each other either. I also looove writing about Ash being super OP and skilled because describing the scenes is just satisfying ^u^

4 what's the overall response of your story from your readers?

  Its been great so far and that was the most relieving thing to me. Everyone was positive and gave me encouragement, saying that they wished for more chapters and that they enjoyed the characters. Knowing that people enjoy my work is just awesome because the fact that people who I dont even know personally compliment it without bias. Its a great feeling :)

5 is your story a stand alone novel or a piece of a series ?

 Normally, novels on wattpad include 40 or so chapters at most but...that's way too little for my story. I've planned about 100 or more chapters by now so...It's gonna be a series. Not so much the story itself, but just the length of it. I think the maximum amount of chapters for a book on wattpad is 200 so...there might be 2-4 books? I dont expect to keep too many readers during the process of writing but I do hope to just finish the story one day. ;u;

6 what would you like your readers to take away from your story?

Honestly, not too much. It's just a story of adventuring, magic, and just active stuff in general so not much life lessons or morals that people learn from it (also im not really the kind of person to write useful stuff so). In the story, Ash learns the importance and values of personal connections, family, friends, and just to not be alone like she was before. I'm sure most people already know all that but that's not a major part in the story so I wouldn't say too many people would figure that as a lessons to take away. The novel is just a little thing that I hoped would entertain people and serve as a pass time/hobby of mine and I think it's been serving its purpose quite well so far. 

7 what advice would you provide to fellow writers, when it comes to focusing on their own story?

I would say to just write what you want and don't let numbers bother you. As long as you enjoy writing and it's making you happy, then views, votes, and comments don't really matter. Since everyone starts somewhere, it's natural for someone, especially a new writer, to make mistakes just like everyone else does. People improve over time with experience so don't be frustrated over small things like that. :) I'm obviously not a professional but this is what I think.

8 does your main character share any similarities to yourself?

Nope. Ash was actually made to be the exact opposite of me. She was even supposed to be a boy until I realized some plot points wouldn't work out if she was a boy so she's a girl now. Her hair color, eye color, how she looks, and the way she is, it's all different from how it's like with me. I did want to make her similar to me but I thought the story would be kinda bland like that so I made her the opposite of me. So no, not too many similarities to me. 

9 what is something about your story you believe would draw in new readers?

 I think the genre. Obviously, hashtags are supposed to draw in readers depending on their likes and dislikes but I think the genres of 'transmigration', 'reincarnation', 'villainess', 'reverse-harem, 'yuri', and stuff like that is gaining popularity fairly quickly nowadays. There are so many webcomics, manga, novels, light novels, and other books/manga that are being made based on just any of these genres/topics. They were the inspiration for this novel so...that's my best guess at what's going to draw in new readers. 

10 do you have any future projects?

Yes! My story is based on a girl who is sucked into her favorite cliche novel. I will be writing that mentioned 'cliche novel' name "Yuri Entranced" so readers can have the actual version of that story. Once I nearly reach the end of Yuri Entranced, I will then start another series called "Teach your demon to cry" which is technically a script for an animation movie/project I have coming up. It's just going to be a chain of animatics and those will be going by the written story. I've been planning Teach your demon to cry for about 2 and a half years already and I'm going to be publishing it on Wattpad for the first take! Yuri Entranced will be started when I finish the first volume of "I won't die as a villainess" so...that's gonna be in quite a while. :)