Interview Book (English)

@goldenbootshersh

goldenbootshersh

1) "Name?"

Van

2) "Age?"

Press age: 32 Real age: 34

3)" What are your hobbies?"

Writing, netflix, listening to music, no sleeping and feeling tired

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

I've been writing since I was about 11 or 12. I started off writing 3T fanfiction just to share with my friend, just swapping handwritten stuff written in script format because we used to just tell each other stories on sleepovers. Then when the internet happened, I found out other people did it, too, and I've been writing on and off for various fandom ever since!

5) "Which was your first story generally?"

My first real story that I completed was a Beatles fic about a girl called Grace, who worked in a hotel in Cardiff. She ended up getting pregnant by John and marrying the son of the hotel owner, but she ends up leaving to go to London and has this long affair with John and they end up married. I lost the first book when my old family computer broke, but I still have a handwritten copy of the second one. It's still one of my favourite stories I've written, and a lot of the themes and relationships I created are the influence to my writing now.

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

I have two tumblr accounts (imnottherealharrystyles is my personal account where I post other writing pieces, and theothermanfic is purely for hayla based things), and I'm also on #ao3.

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

I just enjoy it so much, even as stressed out as it makes me sometimes. I'm a creative person in all aspects of my life, and I love being able to step back and look at something I've created. Also, when people have told me that the things I've written have touched their lives or become important to them somehow, it makes me want to keep going.

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

Every day. I have a chronic illness that causes memory loss and fogginess, and sometimes writing is so hard when I can barely think straight. Also, not so much on here as on tumblr, but a lack of support and feedback can be so soul destroying sometimes that I've definitely wanted to throw in the towel on occasion lol!

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

See previous answer about why I don't read nearly as much as I used to, but the favourites I do have are Noir by @yourekillingmestyles , tfft by my lovely nominator @allfourthemusic , princess and the popstar by @kasiopae and home by @thepengirl . I'm also snailspacing my way through Goldie by @fatbottomgirls

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

I have! I've been blessed with some of the most wonderful readers who support me and I love them to bits, but @thepengirl and @lauloupi are two that really stand out when it comes to developing friendships that started then extended out of wattpad.