Read the following interview to learn more about Victoria's "Barber Shop Incident", her stories, the book she dedicated to her late brother, and also her tips for writers and writing.
Client: CroodsGirl
Interviewer: SI_Mitchy
I'm SI, an Interviewer from the Gemme Community, may I get an introduction?
My name is Catherine Victoria Christie, but I go by Victoria or Viktoria. Viktoria is derived from my Russian name, Viktoria Fyodorova. I've been writing since 4th grade and have written over 200 short stories, three series, and seven books. My favourite genre to write is Fantasy. I hope to become a published author in the future. I'm very kind, and I love to help undiscovered authors. My dream is to either become a Creative Writing teacher or go into the movie business.
Nice to meet you, Viktoria. I must say you have really nice dreams and I can see you're really working to achieve them. Going through your books, I saw that your writing career started in a Barbing shop, very interesting if I may add, where do you think you would have been if that encounter never happened?
I call it the Barber Shop Incident. If it never happened, I would not be where I am today. I knew I was an imaginative person when I was young, but I did not know where it would get me in life. I never expected to be a writer. It just hit me the day at the barber shop. I don't know what happened, and I don't think I ever will. If it didn't happen, though, then I would not be going to school to become a writer, and all the stories I've written would never exist. That I know for sure.
I'm really hoping everyone gets to have their own "Barber Shop Incident" also. Anyways before I go on, I should congratulate you for getting your books approved for publishing by Royal Road.
Oh, thank you! I didn't expect it, since I didn't get approved by Radish, so it was a nice surprise.
You must be excited with the news and if I may add, Radish just missed out on the chance to publish a great book like yours. Do you have any specific reason for submitting those three books out of your 18 works on Wattpad?
The Green Guardian, Wait! I Wrote That?, and The Descendant of Evil are my best works on Wattpad--the ones I've put the most time and effort into. They're the ones I've applied to become Paid Stories, because they each hold a special place in my heart. The Green Guardian is written in honor of my older brother, who died in August 2021, so it only makes sense to try it to get his story known.
Wait! I Wrote That? is an interactive memoir that combines memoir with storytelling, in order to paint a picture of my writing career in my reader's head. That one is definitely something you do not see often, so I really wanted to try to encourage people to not be shy about uploading your old stories.
As for The Descendant of Evil, I love Star Wars. I wrote so many Star Wars fanfictions when I was younger, but this one is my best one. It has a very creative plot and contains things we have not seen in Star Wars: supernovas and wormholes. I also worked really hard to develop Rey more, since I believe she could have used a little more development in the Sequel Trilogy. A lot of work went into coming up with the plot for The Descendant of Evil, and I am very happy with what the novella turned out to be.
My condolences for the loss of your brother and I hope writing a book in his memory really helped you in coping with the loss. Writing The Green Guardian in honor of your brother must have been difficult because surely you would want your readers to connect to your story, was there any moment you lost hope in writing it?
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