Dreams

10 Writer's Questions

[Taken from random multiple sources]

[Also sorry for not updating this in awhile whooooops]

1. You get a brilliant thought/phrase/idea at an inappropriate time (in the shower, while driving, while drifting off to sleep). What do you do? If there is some paper handy and it is safe, I write the idea down. If not, I usually try my best to remember it, and I just keep thinking about it and making it better until I can write it down.

2. When is the best time for you to write? Why? I think the best time for me to write is whenever I'm just feeling a bit out of things or sad, because that way I can describe how I'm feeling and then put it into a characters personality.

3. Do you involve yourself in any other artistic pursuits other than creative writing? If so, what? I would like to say drawing/painting, but I'm too bad at it to call myself an artist. I do like to sing too, although I don't really sing in front of others and when I do, they never seem to like it. I can also play a few instruments and would like to learn some more, but once again, I'm no expert.

4. Do you prefer to handwrite first or compose on a keyboard? If you do both, do you find your writing differs if you write it on the keyboard versus writing it by hand? It usually depends where I am at the time and if I feel like pressing a bunch of buttons over and over. I also do like to physically write things on paper, I find it fun, but I don't do it often because it's a pain to transfer it to the computer. However, when I do write on paper, I find that my writing can be really good one paragraph and really bad the next, as if everything seems a bit detached. Also, writing on paper leads to shorter paragraphs, because I write big and there isn't as wide of lines, so I could write a paragraph that's half a page and it's about four lines on a computer.

5. Favorite style of writing to read/write? Why? I really do like reading and writing slightly sadder pieces of writing, which might be a bit boring, but I think writing with sad characters or a sad event can open up so many words to use to describe how the characters feel, and it shows a lot more emotions and realism to situations.

6. What are some of your favorite genres to write in? Why? I like Fiction a lot, except I can never bring myself to create fictional events. I also really like Realistic Fiction, because it gives you a lot more freedom towards your characters and their actions without having all the power as you do in a Fiction book. I do like good Non-Fiction books too, but they need to be very well written, which I wouldn't be able to do. Two genres I love reading but can never write myself are Historical Fiction and Mystery.

7. Cake* or Death? Death.

8. What subject(s) do you find you cannot write about? Why? I've only told a few people about this, mostly because it's really hard to explain, but I've always despised having to write in the point of view of an inanimate object. To give an example, I had to write a story about a snow-shovel once, and it's "adventures", and I swear to god it was horribly stupid to have to write how a snow shovel felt about fucking shovelling snow. Like, it's a shovel. No.

9. Name an author who you aspire to write like. Although I never want to write exactly like someone else, I really, really admire the writing styles of John Green and Virtues, who, if you didn't know, is @virtuesintheverse. John Green can make everything look very easy to write and yet it flows so nicely, and Virtues has an amazing vocabulary and figurative language to write with, along with seamless plots and characters.

10. What is the end? The end may take a long time to come, but when it does. It will be real, and it will have been right in front of you the entire time.

* Cake = similar to fluff. Very happy styles of writing.