11 x 3 questions
I’ve tagged writers, so my questions are all lit-related:
1. Who were the writers who inspired you to start writing?
2. What’s your current WIP?
3. What do you think are your biggest strengths as a writer?
4. What are your challenges or areas you are working on improving?
5. If you could have dinner with 5 writers, living or dead, who would they be?
6. Who are the biggest supporters or fans of your writing?
7. What’s your favorite source for writing advice? (tag good tumblrs here if you want!)
8. What are your writing materials of choice? (laptop, scrap paper, pencils, etc.)
9. What books are you reading right now? How are they impacting your writing?
10. What’s your usual or favorite writing ritual? (Describe where you go, time of day, music or no music, etc.)
11. What’s your biggest source of inspiration for your writing?
tagged by @acebelle @bucketsiler and @quiet-tiime
Thank you so much for tagging me, I loved reading your answers and learning a bit about you, guys :)
@acebelle ‘s questions
Questions for you:
1) Do you listen to music when you’re writing?
Never. Only while plotting/outlining/brainstorming.
2) Does you family/friends know that you write stories/poems/etc.?
Oh yes, they’re avid fans!
3) What was your favorite book when you were a child?
The Malory Towers books by Enid Blyton
4) Tea or coffee?
Neither
5) Notebooks and pens or laptop/computer?
All of the above!
6) How old were you when you started to write?
Six
7) What is the first line of a WIP you’re working on?
“Let it be known that no man was
hungry this day on the whole green land!” Cups of spiced ale rose towards the
starry skies, while sparks from the fire illuminated the five faces of the
people sitting around it in the deep, dark forest.
8) Do you base your characters of real people or not?
Not
9) What does writing mean to you?
Everything. It means staying alive.
10) What is your least favorite trope to write?
Don’t write tropes. Trying to be original here.
11) Do you have any favorite author/authors?
I have TONS. You can find them scrolling through my blog, but here are a few: Austen, Hardy, Dickens, Steinbeck, Bradbury, the Brontes, Joe Hill, Dean Koontz, Laini Taylor, Georgette Heyer, Cameron Jace, Sarra Manning, Margaret Atwood, Alice Hoffman, and the list goes on.
@quiet-tiime ‘s questions
My eleven questions will also be book/writing related because those are the only people I follow
1. What are you working on right now? Hows it going?
The Robin Hood WIP. You can read my Robin Hood WIP diaries to see how it’s going! Spoiler alert:
2. Favourite character? Has this person(s) influenced any of your own characters
Jane Eyre. And yes, hugely.
3. Any advice to people thinking of writing?
Thinking is good, but DO EEET. (also, don’t stop thinking while writing, because I’ve read some books that apparently are a product of that and… no good. At all. Lols)
4. How often, if ever, do you write something other than what you normally write - like poetry for a novelist etc. - why do you do it?
I like to experiment with everything that can be written, just so I can challenge myself. With that being said, I NORMALLY WRITE: articles, plays, film scripts, short stories, poems, novels and essays. So there’s little left to experiment with, unfortunately. I’m in the process of plotting a space opera, so that’s new and exciting and scary!
5. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever had to research for a piece of writing?
I was literally just thinking of how bad it would be if the police ever had to look into my search history on the web. Boy, I’d be in trouble for sure. The last weird thing I researched was who took care of a castle’s waste in medieval times. Good stuff.
6. Have you ever written fanfiction? What is your opinion on it?
Love reading it and writing it. Have to stay away at large periods of time, cause I get obsessed and can’t stop reading story after story. So many talented writers write fanfic, it’s absurd
7. Pen and paper or laptop?
Both, please.
8. Best book you’ve ever read? Why was it so good?
East of Eden by John Steinbeck. It’s so good because its theme is the core of mankind, explored within an inch of its life.
7. Strongest quality about your own writing?
My pain.
9. Preferred genre to read and write? Are they different?
Historical to read, scifi to write.
10. What do your friends and family think about your writing?
They support me so much, and I feel that I don’t deserve such amazing, wonderful people. I keep waiting for them to tell me that I’m worthless, but they never have so far. On the contrary, they keep telling me they’re proud of me. Who would have thought?
11. Does tumblr help or hinder your writing (be honest!)
Help. So much! I’ve met the most incredible people on here (like you), and the most incredible bullies, but who cares about them. My writing career took off when I joined tumblr!
@bucketsiler ‘s questions
I’ve tagged writers, so my questions are all lit-related:
1. Who were the writers who inspired you to start writing?
Ray Bradbury, Shakespeare, C.S. Lewis (majorly), Georgette Heyer (also majorly) and my dad.
2. What’s your current WIP?
An untitled Robin Hood story with a female assassin
3. What do you think are your biggest strengths as a writer?
My life experiences. The fact that there’s every little that I haven’t lived through (both good and bad). You name it, it’s probably happened to me. I used to think I was cursed, but there’s one place where horrible things happening to you is education. And that place is writing.
4. What are your challenges or areas you are working on improving?
Conveying the deep, raw human emotion one finds in literary marvels like the book A Little Life. It’s not that I can’t do it, I just feel so exposed when I do, and I end up chickening out. I need to be braver. I don’t think a reader is touched unless an author really bares their soul to them via their writing. And my soul…. has been wounded. It’s hard to expose it. That’s why writing is an agony and medicine at the same time for me.
5. If you could have dinner with 5 writers, living or dead, who would they be?
Oscar Wilde, Margaret Atwood, Louisa May Alcott, Agatha Christie and C.S. Lewis
6. Who are the biggest supporters or fans of your writing?
My #nossstreetteam yaaay
7. What’s your favorite source for writing advice? (tag good tumblrs here if you want!)
I love writing tips tumblrs, but I don’t use them for advice, as I am an experienced author. I read books on writing or watch famous academical speeches from trusted authors like Stephen King, Carol Joyce Oates, Philippa Gregory and the like.
8. What are your writing materials of choice? (laptop, scrap paper, pencils, etc.)
I plot on actual paper and write on my laptop.
9. What books are you reading right now? How are they impacting your writing?
Finished Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig, which depressed me to no end, so I couldn’t write for days, and kind of wanted to give up on life (that’s a sure win, Mr. Haig, good job -not sure if that’s what you were going with your book there, but yeah). And before that A Little Life which absolutely ruined my life it was SO GOOD. It made me want to be a better writer so bad I can taste it. That book was a univeristy course all by itself.
10. What’s your usual or favorite writing ritual? (Describe where you go, time of day, music or no music, etc.)
Now listen carefully, because this is going to be EXTREMELY DETAILED and complicated: ready? Should I start? Ok, here goes:
I turn on my laptop and start typing.
11. What’s your biggest source of inspiration for your writing?
My crazy head.
Tagging people to pick 11 questions out of the 33 mentioned above and answer them! @koalamuffins @friesian-girl @velutluna @intj-writer @katekarl and everyone who JUST READ EVERY ANSWER (if you do this and mention you were tagged by me, I’ll know you read everything and are a pro) Have fun :D
