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NatalieTaehyung

My name is Syd, and I had the honors of interviewing the wonderful author known as  NatalieTaehyung! She is the writer of the well-known book The Second Chance, which is a YiZhan fanfiction, and has 110k reads!

Nice to meet you Natalie! So, what brought you to Wattpad? How did you know you would want to start writing on this platform?

I first registered here in January of 2016, but to be honest, I don't remember the reason for doing it. I do know that I did it to read a lot of books, but I never intended to write my own! But then I watched the chinese drama The Untamed, and I fell in love with the story! I also read the novel, and went on to continue reading a lot of fanfictions until I decided to write my own! I read, and am still reading, so many good books from authors here on Wattpad, that I have decided I wanted to write too... and so here I am. :)

Wow, that's very inspiring! It's amazing how other authors or even movie writers can inspire you with amazing ideas! So you write fanficiton, have you ever considered writing a novel outside of that genre?

The Idea of writing a book of my own sounds really interesting, but to be honest I am not really sure about it. I love reading and writing, but I don't think I would be very good at writing a book outside of fanfiction. I might in the future, but for now I will be sticking with only fanfiction!

Aw I understand that, just know that your fans and I will be cheering you on from the sidelines either way! Speaking of writing fanfiction, will you write another series of YiZhan? Or another fanfiction book after The Second Chance?

Yes, I will be writing another series of yizhan, but only after I have finished writing The 2nd Chance. I will probably first publish a ZhanYi Fiction, which is already in progress, and after completing that I also have 3 Ideas for more YiZhan stories.

I just hope that my readers can give my ZhanYi story a chance as well. :)

I'm sure they'll be ecstatic! I have so many questions to ask about whether you plan on writing more books or not, they really love your writing! So, I see that your book has over 110k reads! How does it feel to have that many readers, and how much editing and revising have you put into your book for it to be where it is now?

I was overwhelmed when I saw the increasing number of reads, which I never thought would happen! When I started writing my book, I had only planned to write around 12 chapters because it was my first book to be written in english.. I wasn't very confident in my english skills at the time, but apparently they were better than I had thought! After I had started, so many ideas were flooding into my head, and then my book got longer and longer. The words in each chapter were also increasing!

About the editing: I write a chapter until I don't have any more time for that day, then the next day before I continue writing, I will re-read everything I had written and correct mistakes I see Once I've done that, then I will continue writing.

Once I'm done with that process, and the day of the update comes, I will paste my story into Wattpad step by step, and then re-read it again to correct any other mistakes before finally publishing it. Of course there are always still mistakes, but not as many, and my readers will sometimes help me by pointing them out.

Wow, you must be a very dedicated writer, because that seems like a daunting task! I know that for me, editing is for sure a hard process. So, in The Second Chance, what is your favorite moment or moments that you've written?

I have a lot of fun when I write the conversations between the irritated, annoyed, and jealous Wang Yibo, and the gentle and teasing Li Bowen... who enjoys Yibo's behavior.