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1. Where did you grow up?
Dubai, United Arab Emirates. ^-^ Moved to Canada later and had the best time of my life—high school—there.
2. What is the first thing you remember that perked your interest in writing?
I honestly...have no idea. I've always been writing. But I stopped when I hit the double-digit age and didn't write ‘til about January of this year.
3. Did you go to college/university?
I just started university at last a couple days back. ^_^
4. If so, what was your major?
Ironically, I’m going in for a Chartered Accountant degree.
5. Outside of college, how have you educated yourself beyond secondary school?
No. Regular classes are torment enough.
6. How's the weather?
I'd feel happy for the sun having a crush on the grass and hiding behind clouds, peeking out occasionally, but it gave me a raging headache, so...not very good.
7. What's your favorite color?
Currently, it's emerald-green. But black all the way too.
8. Food?
Nutella sandwiches. Stimulate my brain. ^_^
9. Pastime?
Listening to music, roleplay, playing Sims 2, Photoshop-ing, video-editing, painting, drawing...writing.
10. Music?
Right now, I'm more than obsessed with David Archuleta's Crush. It puts me in a good mood every time I hear it. But my writing sometimes influences my musi choice, depending on the plot of a piece. It also works vice-versa, where music inspires me.
11. Writer?
Joan Katherine Rowling and Nicholas Sparks all the way! No one makes reading as educational as JKR. Everything about the Harry Potter series, including but not limited to, her beautifully-rich vocab, screams brilliance.
12. TV show?
Heh, I'd say one Tree Hill, even though I haven't watched it in ages. Not a TV-person.
13 .Movie?
Cloverfield. Everything about this, especially the point-of-view, is a true art. It's a wonderfully-detailed movie; the small things making it feel very relatable.
14. Book?
Oh boy...hard one here. Right now, I'd say it would be currently The Mediator series by Meg Cabot. The rest of her stuff may not be very deep, but this series is amazing. And horribly underrated.
15.Poem?
The Giaour by Lord Byron. Stunning and chilling.
Info about your Writing :
1.When did you first begin to write?
Started at age eight, stopped at around ten, and continued at age seventeen.
2. What kind of stories do you prefer to write?
Anything that strikes me, at the time. I can't say I don't prefer making every genre bend to fit into the Young Adult category though.
3. Fiction or non-fiction?
Fiction, no doubt there. My imagination is too vivacious to be held down by facts.
4. Have you published anything?
Not yet. Hopefully soon though...
5. What is your reaction when the muse visits? Drop everything and write it down or tuck it away in memory and write it later?
Depends on how far away from a pencil/pen and paper I am.
6 . Do you consider yourself a spontaneous writer or do you tend to plan things out in advance?
I never have the patience to plan anything. For my novel though, I did make an overall outline, adding notes here and there.
Most of my planning is done mentally, but in most cases, the plots never quite end up the way I imagined them to.
7. How does reading other authors affect your writing skills?
It tells me how bad my stuff is, vocab- and grammar-wise. But other than a mental evaluating tool, it doesn't affect me much.
8. When you sit down to write something is it fun or work?
Fun, of course. We Gemini never bother forcing ourselves into voluntary torture. At least, this one doesn’t.
9. How do you get past writers block?
I make myself get over the illusion of a "block", and instead wait 'till my mind awakens through random inspiration.
10. What feeds your desire to continue writing?
A sense of wanting to finish something, fulfill a life-long dream to publish a book, and also...encouraging comments. Most of all.
11. Who are your influences?
Joan Katherine Rowling and Nicholas Sparks, each for their own reasons. JKR’s imaginative and educational writing appends both my vocabulary and fun levels, and Nicholas Sparks teaches me how to emote true emotion into my work.
12. How do you know when your story is finished?
A story can never really be finished. There’s always some way of making it better. You just don’t always find how immediately.
General things about you
1. Hobbies?
Roleplaying is my latest mad fad. I guess because it’s so much like collaborated story-writing. I adore writing, and don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t write. I also love wasting time on Youtube. One finds amazing inspiration there. In fact, I got a new novel idea from there.
2. Pets?
I’ve kept kittens in the past, but my parents never approved. Something about the younger siblings being animal-like enough. ^_^
3. Talents?
I don’t know how much this weighs but so far, writing is one of my biggest skills, I’d say. That, and drawing. I’ve always been perceptive at photography and filming/editing as well.
4.Jobs?
I’ve done a lot of voluntary work, but barely done any paid jobs.
5.What advice would you give to growing writers?
Believe that JKR is queen and that if she can get rejected seven times, then you probably will a whole lot more, so learn to face it.
Also, calling your muse every cuss word on Urban Dictionary and declaring yourself a victim of Writer’s Block won’t ever help. Go surf Youtube. You’ll be amazed.
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