Undiscovered Interviews

12 - @aminalleeds13

@aminalleeds13

1. What's your favourite shop? Probably Bath & Body Works, because it's too hard to narrow down my favorite shoe shop.

2. What's your favourite milkshake/smoothie? I'm not a milkshake girl, so smoothie would be strawberry & pomegranate with lots of greens.

3. If you made a new account on Wattpad, what would you name it? Amina's Fan Club. I've always wanted a fan club like celebrities. It's dumb, but oh well.

4. Do you usually accept reading requests? I am always open to read for reads, if my schedule allows. It's hard when you're writing 3 novels and have a full-time job, fresh out of college; but I will make a conscious effort to read if someone asks. I do dislike when they don't reciprocate though.

5. Who's your favourite singer/band? Way too hard to narrow it down to a fav., but my top 3 right now are (in no order) Halsey, Naked and Famous, and Airborne Toxic Event; but I have a wide variety of music that I like.

6. What colour do you think represents 'guilt' and why? I think that maybe grey would represent guilt, because generally it is seen as a gloomy color and when you are consumed with guilt, you feel down.

7. What's your favourite word and what does the word mean? Probably the word Serendipity is my favorite. It's kind of a cliché word to like, but it means some kind of luck that takes form of finding valuable and pleasant things that you wouldn't otherwise find. I think being a writer who inserts romance in any genre she writes (yes, I will even do it in horror), serendipitous things come in handy.

8. Do you prefer writing online or on paper and why? Online, either straight on Wattpad or Word. I like the feel of it being digitized so that it is never really lost, plus it saves times. I write my ad copy straight on programs, so I've become one of the many writers who has put down pen and paper in favor of technology. I admire writers who still use paper; it's a dying art and that's probably why so many people have horrible handwriting.

9. Is your family and friends supportive of you writing? Absolutely. My best friend is my number one Wattpad fan and my mom and sister have gushed about my novels to people. My mom saves all the advertisements where I've written the copy as well, she has a scrapbook that she shows her colleagues.

10. Do you enter your books in many Awards? For the most part I do. All of my novels are entered in some award. I'm still pretty new to Wattpad, so I haven't won anything just yet.

11. Why/how did you pick your profile picture? I really don't have an exciting story for how or why I picked it. It was on my comp and I clicked it.

12. What's the funniest conversation you've ever overheard? I heard an exchange by a really embarrassed gal and her bestie, where her bestie was asking her about being intimate with her boyfriend; but the whole conversation was in horrible bedroom euphemisms. It inspired me to write a scene between my MC and her friend using bad bedroom euphemisms.

13. If 1 being the least and 10 being the most, how creative would you number yourself from 1-10? Definitely 10, unless we can secretly go over.

14. What's your favourite book by Project-Undiscovered and why? Probably the Graphic Makers because I work in advertising, so I love to see the creativeness that other people out in the world have.

15. What's the best prank call you've ever done? When I was 14, my twin and I put fake bugs (roaches and spiders) all over my sister's room. Under lampshades, curtains, in the bed, drawers; anywhere you could think of. My older sister about lost it when she came home past curfew and switched on the lights. She still doesn't let us live that one down.

16. Smoothie or milkshake? Smoothie. I could live down at Jamba Juice.

17. What's your favourite song lyrics? "But there's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark. You should know you're beautiful just the way you are. And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart. No scars to your beautiful, we're stars and we're beautiful."  -Scars, by Alessia Cara.

It's probably my favorite, because I see so many young girls and girls my age (in their early 20s) that hate themselves and the way they look, because of how society has told us we should look. I just wish that more girls would notice their worth.

18. What bad habits do you have? I mess with my hair a lot and once in a great while I will become a nervous nail biter.

19. What's your favourite car brand and why? Chevy. I couldn't live without my Camaro.

20. If you could become the founder of Project-Undiscovered what would you change? I honestly don't think that I would change much, except maybe gaining more exposure. I feel that what the site does is amazing in so many ways, so it doesn't really need changing.

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Note to readers: I guess instead of shameless plugging for my novels (which I'd love you all to follow and read ), I would just like to tell all the readers reading this to never give up, whether you are just a reader or an aspiring writer. Find something you are passionate about and do it with all your heart, it may not be perfect in the beginning, but great things rarely are. Great things take work. If you're a writer, there will be a long road and there will be some or a lot of rejection, and you are your worst enemy. So, never let yourself give up! Just write with all your heart.