A Survey About Breathing--I Mean, Writing.

1. What genre do you write (poetry, novel, plays...)? Novels. Lots of novels.

2. What is a theme that you write a lot about? Revenge. >_>

3. Have you ever written about your own life? I've written stuff BASED off my own life. I'm really actually very boring, though, and the stuff based off my life has about as much in common with my life as Disney does with the fairytales they base their movies on.

4. What is the longest thing you have written?
Cloak and Dagger was 145,000 words before I culled about 20k of them while editing.

5. What would you say is your best work? I plead the fifth.

6. Have you ever gotten anything seriously published?
...Does indie count? No? *posts Okay Guy reaction face* :(

7. Do you ever want to get anything seriously published?
yes.

8. Do you want to be a writer when you grow up (that is, writing being your only source of income)?
What is this growing up you speak of? I've been waiting 23 years for that to happen. ;)

9. Do you let other people read your writing or are you very secretive about it?
There are no secrets on the internet.
.-.

10. Do you ever throw your writing away, or do you keep all of it?
KEEP ALL THE THINGS!

11. Who is your favorite character you have invented?
I dunno. They all kind of scare me LOL. I guess Catherine. You haven't met her yet. She's funny.

12. What is your greatest source of inspiration?
Reading, dreams, neural synapses.

13. Name one of your works:
FEARSCAPE.

14. Is your dream to get on the New York Times Bestseller's list?
If that happened I would buy a newspaper just to cut out that article and frame it. And then I would buy a projector, and turn the article into one of those laminate sheets, and I would shine it into the sky like the Batman logo EVERY NIGHT. >:D

15. Do you expect to get on the New York Times Bestseller's list?
Nooo.

16. How old were you when you wrote your first serious work?
I wrote a story about a girl with leaves for hair when I was like 4.

17. If you write poetry, is it rhymed or unrhymed?
Rhymey-whymey-whyme. Or not. It really does depend a lot.

18. Is imagery one of your strongest points in writing?
Sometimes.

19. What IS your strongest point in writing?
Coming up with titles.

20. What is your weakest point in writing?
Coming up with stories to go with the titles.

21. How many serious works have you written (ones you'd like to get published)?
About 20. Be afraid.

22. Do you turn your friends and family in to characters in your book?
I'll never tell! >:D

23. What is your system on character development?
What doesn't kill them makes them stronger (characters).

24. What writers can you compare yourself with?
You tell me, readers! You tell me!

25. Name another one of your works:
Equinox.

26. Do you prefer writing over reading?
When I'm doing one, I'd usually rather be doing the other. I'm like Milo, from the Phantom Tollbooth.

27. What was the inspiration for your greatest work?
Stories where the bad guys didn't stay bad. I was like, I WANNA WRITE ABOUT A MEAN SUMBITCH WHO STAYS MEAN.

28. Would you like to live like the characters in your stories?
LOL. Yes. Because being an assassin-slash-serial-killer is so me. No thanks! ^^

29. Would you hate one of your stories to be turned into a movie?
It depends on what they were planning to do it.

30. Have you ever written a story only to find out that there has all ready been one published exactly like it?
Sort of...but not really? I'm really competitive so I try not to look or read stories that sound too much like mine because I don't want to be biased. Usually my stories seem to be the more disturbing out of the two, and I get a weird sense of pride out of that. Like, YAY. I WIN. I'm very immature.

31. Go on, name another one of your works:
Err. Detraction.

32. What is it about?
DOOM AND DESPAIR.

33. Do you think you are a better writer than most of your contemporaries?
LOL. The minute you hear me spewing shit like that, you have my permission to shelve me as a BBA.

34. Are most of your stories about the same thing, or do they cover a lot of different themes?
No. I would get bored. Fast. I want to try writing in a whole bunch of different genres! I don't want to be a one-trick pony author.

35. Is writing a challenge for you, or does it come naturally?
First drafts come naturally. Editing goes slooooooowly. Frequently there is crying involved.

36. Have you ever taken a creative writing class?
Nope, never.

37. Have you ever written an entire novel?
Yes.

38. Have you ever sent your work in to a publisher, only to have it declined?
Yes. I was sad, but the lady was really nice. Hooray!

39. Name another one of your works:
Fearscape.

40. What is this story about?
A stalker...and a girl.

41. And finally, is writing the most important thing in your life?
Writing is probably my favorite thing besides reading. I've been doing it for fun since I was 5. There's something magical about making your own form of entertainment come to life. I love that. It's a little lonely and isolate sometimes, but that's why I'm so grateful for Goodreads. I get to meet new friends through reading- and writing. As a writer, you can't really ask for more than that. :')