Interviews Of The Winners

MolayneMelody

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Assalam o Alaikum and hello friends and fans!!

I'm your host and dost Kounj Muzafar. Today we have another honorable and lovely Author and winner of a Freedom Award MolayneMelody.

Thank you so much for agreeing to this interview. So I will start now...

Tell us a little something special about yourself and your background?

To start off, I am the stereotypical "good girl" who never got in trouble and was usually forgotten in the back of the classroom until someone needed to copy off me. I had a few close friends, but people always saw me as weird. I was smart, always getting the highest grades in the class, but nobody REALLY knew who I was.

I was quiet because I never knew what to say. I was a shy, abused child who was extremely sheltered by an abusive man who didn't allow me to use the internet, watch shows for kids my age, or even play outside. I was conditioned to fear the opposite sex, do what I was told, and wait for him to find me a husband. He even told me that I was going to be a veterinarian, end of story. He had money and had taken care of me all my life, who was I to not be thankful? I had nice clothes, nice expensive game systems, a nice house, and we went to Disney World and Busch Gardens. I had given up on my life since it was already planned out for me.

That's where writing came in. I was always in the house, except for school or when the man took us somewhere, so I desperately looked for an escape.

It started with silly elementary school stories and developed into long narrative essays and poetry as I grew older, but there was always something every story had that I never noticed at the time.

Hidden darkness.

From kittens forever missing in the forest to teenagers mugged in an alley, there was always a darkness to my stories. I, myself, never noticed it since it had been my reality from the ages five to fourteen, but my friends and teachers did. They would call me crazy or even go as far as to ask if I was mentally okay.

To be blunt, no, I was not mentally okay. I would have panic attacks at the end of the school day because I had to go back home where I was in a constant state of overwhelming anxiety, but I didn't want help because I felt like I was just complaining. I wasn't crying for help in my writing, at least, not on purpose, I just created a story that happened to be morbid or generally unusual for my external bubbly character. It got to the point where I became afraid to share my writing in fear of being judged or even locked away.

It wasn't until being introduced to Wattpad that I opened up to the darkness. My friend, Robyn, showed me Wattpad in 2015, but it took me almost a full year to find the courage to start my new obsession.

What's your age, your date of birth and zodiac sign? 

Age: 20 DOB: March 28 Zodiac Sign: Aries (Western) Ox (Eastern)

Which genre did your winner book belong to? What draws you to this genre? 

My book, Dead Beat, won Best Action Book. What draws me to action is the constant high risk life or death situations. Blood, gore, tragedy, kicking ass! It gets the blood pumping, which is why I chose Fallout Boy for the soundtrack.