Interview Book (English)

@mindofjohanna

mindofjohanna

1) "Name?"

My name is Hannah.

2) "Age?"

I'm 19!

3)" What are your hobbies?"

Writing for sure!! I lovee reading books and sometimes I like to be creative like water painting, playing my ukulele, etc..

4) "When did you start writing and why?"

Good question.. I think when I was younger I once wrote a book about horses (haha) but that was just once.. uhm, I started writing ‘properly’ in 2014. And why, because I had read a lot of books and fictions and I wanted to give it a try.

5) "Which was your first story generally?"

Well, the one about horses haha! Besides that, it was a fanfiction about zerrie.

6) "Do you write in some other website except Wattpad?"

Nope, Wattpad only!

7) "What has given you motive to keep on writing?"

Definitely the readers with their feedback in votes and comments! They mean the world to me!! Besides that, my mind is always full of unwritten stories, to empty it, it is quite handy to write them down haha.

8 )"Have you ever wanted to give up everything? (writing I mean)"

I mean, I guess I have. When the books didn’t work out the way I wanted to, or when I get a huge writers block, though, I know I’ll never actually do it (for now at least.

9) "Which is your favorite story on Wattpad?"

That’s a tough question.. I don’t really have a favourite I think.

10) "Have you gained any friendship from Wattpad? If yes, which are your Wattpad friends?"

Yes, for sure! I’ve got a lot, but the closest are Tina, Ash, Fariza, Nelly, Raisa, Srin and Al.

11) "Do you relate with any of your characters from your books? If yes, which one and which characteristics are similar?"

I think all of my characters have some characteristics from me, but what Rose has been through (in Heal) is something that I sorta have been through as well. Nervous for internship, losing someone because of cancer.. etc.

12) "What did you study /are you studying/do you want to study?"

I’ve studied Social Work, graduated a few weeks ago!

13)" Describe yourself in 3 words."

Calm, introverted, funny (I guess haha)

14) "What do you advise new writers?"

Keep on writing. You improve your writing while writing, seriously! My first book was awful, but because I kept writing, I really taught myself a lot of things and improved myself.

15)" Questions based on ' Zephaniah' :  How were you inspired to write this story?"

I work at a care farm myself and this boy came that interested me a lot. Before Zephaniah, I had another father Zayn story but it just didn’t really feel and work out the way I wanted it to. So eventually this idea started to form in my head and daydreaming led to the proper story, I think. Also, because I find it important to bring awareness to certain things such as autism and epilepsy in my story.

16)" Who's your favourite character in the book and why? "

Probably Zephaniah himself, because he’s the sweetest little boy, who already, sadly, has to deal with so many things.

17)"If you were asked to publish your book , would you do it?"

Yeah, for sure.

18)"Which is your favourite a)  funny,  b) dramatic,  c) romantic, d) sad scene in the book ?"

The funniest scene is probably when Zephaniah flipped off a cow, because nobody really expected him to do so.

The most dramatic, well probably where Zayn continually snaps at Hannah, or when he finally tells Hannah what had happened all those years ago.

Romantic uhm, their kiss I think and

the saddest scene when Zephaniah has his severe epilepsy seizure.

19) " A phrase or a scene that you write and you'll never forget.(and why)"

A scene, where Zephaniah slips his little hand in Hannah’s hand after he saw a mother and a son doing the same. It was the moment where he probably realised he needed Hannah as his mum, the moment where he fully trusted her and accepted her into his life. For me, it’s quite emotional to see a little child growing up without their mum, and seeing that there will be women that will love other children as if they were their own— moves me.

20) " How much time did it take to plan the whole plot? "

Thats a good question.. I’m actually not quite sure, but a few months, definitely.

21)" How many unpublished and half-finished books do you have?"

I have 18 books in my drafts. I think 6 books are completed, the others are half finished or have just one or two chapters.

22) " What struggles do you find as a writer in our days? How do you deal with them?"

Uhm, I think for me the biggest struggle (as well as the thing that motivates me the most) is wattpad voting and commenting. Because once you get much less votes or comments than the time before, it might make me insecure, which is not fun. Also busyness and writers blockkk are the worst!!

23) " If you could change just on thing in your story that could change by itself the whole storyline what would it be?"

Making Zephaniah’s autism more severe or Zayn not being snappy towards Hannah at all. (that was how I first started the book, but it was slightly boring haha)

24) " Even though you end the book with Zayn and Hannah finally together we don't have an epilogue with their life the following years. Will they marry? Zeph's autism will get better? Will they have more babies? How will Zeph react? Please tell us a possible scenario of their lives after the last chapter the way you imagine it."

I do have a stand alone book for Zephaniah himself which is called Bloom. I don’t really want to spoil, but if people are interested in that– they can see over there. Though, I can say that yes Zayn and Hannah are married, and Zephaniah does not have siblings until then. His autism doesn’t get ‘better’ but he surely learned how to cope with certain things

25) "Any spoilers for future plans?"

Not yet.. for sure I will write more, but I need to brain storm for that a lot!!

26) " Choose- 'challenge' two writers that you want to know about to do this interview like you."

@lighteningdagger and ZAAAAAYNNNNIEEE_007

CRITICAL QUESTIONS

1) " What would be the best-worst name for different types of businesses? (dry cleaners, amusement parks, etc.)"

I have been staring at this question for quite some minutes and I still haven’t come up with a name, haha!

2) "Who do you know that really reminds you of a character in a TV show or movie?"

Zayn really reminds me of Aladdin, but hey, Disney— they had one job!!

Thank you so much mindofjohanna!!!❤❤

All the love,
M.