GodsDragonGirl

creative-theory asked: Red and black!

I already answered red and black, but I’ll copy my answers <3

Red: When and how did you first realize you loved writing?

Pretty much since meiosis. (Oh gosh biology go away). Honestly, though, I’ve never not loved writing. I never came to a sudden conclusion that this was something I adored. I’ve been writing series since i was four or five. My first one was about a shape shifting, multicolored dog named Spot who saved the world from dragons and the Evil Queen. I hand wrote them, bound them in colorful paper, and gave five or so to my mom. I think she still has them…somewhere.

But I’ve always known I’ve loved writing, that I’m a writer. It’s only recently that I’ve gained the mentality to take on the challenge of turning it into my career choice. I really haven’t believed in myself ever like I have been this past year alone. 

Black: Your dreams! Be published, be a critical success? What?

BOTH. I’m setting out to make writing my sole career. I have a heart and mind to teach creative writing, but my end goal is to be successfully published and write to my hearts content for the rest of my life. Its a demanding job and something that would constantly push me to better myself and my writing.  

msmandapants asked: Green, silver, yellow. It was almost Slytherin there. haha

Green: Whose style do you imitate the most?

I really couldn’t tell you. Even with my “new” style of writing Crossfire, I wasn’t ever thinking of another writer while I wrote it. I suppose I wanted to write something akin to Lili St Crow, but our styles are completely different. I just wanted something clean and powerful that could keep up with a fast paced story without dragging it down, which is what Lili St Crow does with her Strange Angel series. 

Silver: Top three sources of inspiration

My friends, music, and books!

Yellow: What is your favorite style?

Anything “clean cut” with imagery. I don’t like reading blocks of description. I like writing that gets to the point but has a style in doing so. I’d rather authors cut to the chase instead of round about telling me what’s going on or…what have you. This is why I’m so drawn to teen and kid novels. The writers usually have to develop a cleaner style to keep younger minds entertained while getting their story across. Or that seems to be the habit! I really like it. I have a bit of a wandering focus when I read or am being entertained. 

pancakeghost asked: red and violet. tell me writery things.

Red: When and how did you first realize you loved writing?

Pretty much since meiosis. (Oh gosh biology go away). Honestly, though, I’ve never not loved writing. I never came to a sudden conclusion that this was something I adored. I’ve been writing series since i was four or five. My first one was about a shape shifting, multicolored dog named Spot who saved the world from dragons and the Evil Queen. I hand wrote them, bound them in colorful paper, and gave five or so to my mom. I think she still has them…somewhere.

But I’ve always known I’ve loved writing, that I’m a writer. It’s only recently that I’ve gained the mentality to take on the challenge of turning it into my career choice. I really haven’t believed in myself ever like I have been this past year alone. 

Violet: What is your favorite thing about your writing?

I like that I’ve done so much of it that I’m really fast these days. I’ve always been a little quick, but I’m a lot faster now and it helps when I just want to punch out a scene or some dialogue. Believe it or not, what I write first go is usually what I settle for. I know how to get my mind into the desired frame to approach said scene. I also like that I don’t find it as challenging to grasp onto characters like I used to. New characters that I write, even if they have a rocky start to settling into themselves, find their stride pretty quickly. 

I think thats why I’m having so much fun with my Sherlock Fanfiction.

thetroglodyte asked: Pink, Brown, Rainbow?

I’mma cheat and copy paste my pink answer! 

Pink: What attracts you to writing in general? Why do you love it?

Because it gives the characters in my head a way out. Because it allows me to stir something in someone else, even if its a small something. Because writing lets me give pieces of my mind, my soul, my heart, my dreams to others. It helps inspire, pushes me to limits and beyond, makes me want to tear out my hair and hug the entire literary world all at once. I love writing because I’ve been someone who’s been deeply affected by other’s writing, friends and stranger authors alike, and that’s what I want to do in turn. Because I believe that every person is creative, and that we were all made to create in one form or another. This is mine. 

Brown: Three favorite novels?

The Unicorn Sonata by Peter S. Beagle, Return of the King by JRR Tolkien and Inkheart by Cornelia Funke 

Rainbow: Three favorite authors

Ah HA I can name new ones! Win! 

D.J. MacHale, Veronica Roth and Rick Riordan.

…I really should read something “grown up” one day.

Never you can’t make me I find grown up stories boring so boring and the writing is so thick and dense and AGH NO 

stephnrice asked: pink blue rainbow black!

Pink: What attracts you to writing in general? Why do you love it?

Because it gives the characters in my head a way out. Because it allows me to stir something in someone else, even if its a small something. Because writing lets me give pieces of my mind, my soul, my heart, my dreams to others. It helps inspire, pushes me to limits and beyond, makes me want to tear out my hair and hug the entire literary world all at once. I love writing because I’ve been someone who’s been deeply affected by other’s writing, friends and stranger authors alike, and that’s what I want to do in turn. Because I believe that every person is creative, and that we were all made to create in one form or another. This is mine. 

Blue: what is your favorite genre/subject on which to write?

Young Adult. I think a lot of people don’t give younger audiences the credit they deserve in what they can digest as far as story themes. Jo Rowling proved this with Harry Potter (that younger kids can take darker, more serious themes and love them), and so much of YA fiction is strictly romance, or really simple fast paced adventure with a female lead who’s only interested in the guy. Which isn’t bad, I enjoy a few of those myself, but I devour the stories that are chalk full of fast paced plot that makes my heart pound. I want to create stories like that in turn. In short, I’m one of those people who wants to write what they are dying to read! (aka all authors) 

Also, because I went off on a rant— I love action/adventure, fantasy, and writing about struggles. 

Rainbow: Three favorite authors. 

Lili St Crow, Jo Rowling, William Butler Yeats 

Black: Your dreams! Be published, be a critical success? What?

BOTH. I’m setting out to make writing my sole career. I have a heart and mind to teach creative writing, but my end goal is to be successfully published and write to my hearts content for the rest of my life. Its a demanding job and something that would constantly push me to better myself and my writing. 

theladyem asked: indigo, lime, and white!

Indigo: What do you think is the greatest flaw in your writing?

I’ve never been confident with stirring emotion. Rather, I never feel like I can portray what feeling/mood/emotion I’m going for with my writing. Very rarely do I write a scene and feel like I’ve created the desired impact. I keep going anyways! 

Lime: What are some of the most prevalent themes in your work?

Breaking. I don’t just make characters bend, I see what makes them break, what can tear them down, build them back up. I don’t think its as simple as that, because I don’t stick to that theme with every character. But for example: Quinn, Leslie, Lonlor, Kanaray, Allan, Se’vre— in some way or form they were pushed, and they either pushed back or snapped.

I also enjoy dynamic friendships, good vs evil, twisting opinions of the reader around and around, and making my bad guys….bad. 

White: Weirdest thing you’ve ever written?

Hands down the short fic I wrote for Abigail that involved Jim sending gossip texts to Seb and Seb painting his fingernails neon colors. 

It was a joke, but it still BURNS. 

Also I created an entire saga with cats as the antagonists. That’s pretty odd. 

entwinedtocreativity asked: What do you hope to achieve in the future with your art and written pieces that you create, and what do you think has truly inspired you the most to continue?

I hope to publish my books and illustrate them for the rest of my life. Not that I want to draw my own covers, but I think it’d be neat to develop enough skill so that when and if readers want to poke around my stuff, they can see my characters and words brought to life visually by me.

I really want to inspire people and to be open and talkative about the journey of becoming a writer, so that people like me, when I was younger and even now, will have someone who’s been there encourage them to keep going. Its not an easy road or an easy business, and sometimes it takes so long to find yourself. I didn’t have as many sources of author support that I felt should be out there- not accessible, anyway. So if I can be that for someone else, then I’ll be the happiest girl in the world. I also just want to create the depth and beauty that I bury my nose in whenever I read a good book. I want to create beautiful worlds and adventures and characters you can laugh with, cry with, stay up late nights with, share triumphs with, etc. Creativity is so important in society, and often I feel it’s over looked as less important then the “real world.” I want to create something that shouts otherwise. Because its not, not one bit. 

My friends and the world around me have really inspired me to continue. They are a great, never ending source of support. I’ve been blessed in having friends throughout my life cheering me on, even if they don’t write or draw or completely understand my madness themselves. Now I have ones that do, and they push and challenge and inspire me so much my creativity is out of control these days. I can bounce ideas off of them, share my frustrations, my victories, my thoughts, my everything. I don’t know where I’d be without them. Not this far, that much I know. So much wouldn’t have happened if they weren’t with me these past few years. I adore and cherish them and am so excited to share many more years with them. I can’t really express how much they’ve done for me beyond that. 

I hope I can pay them back one day, somehow. 

msmandapants asked: What do you hope the eventual influence/effect of your writing is once it's published?

To have influence and effect in the first place.

Honestly, I want to inspire people. I want to be entertaining, to whisk people away to places and times that make them forget their own. I want to give people reason to smile and hope and dream and courage to accomplish what they want in their own life. I want to encourage young people to write and to reach for their own stars and snatch them down. I want to be encouraging, and to do for others what so many authors have done for me. They’ve given me companions and memories and dreams and long days curled up with a good book. I want to give people characters that stay with them for lifetimes. If I can do that to anyone else, if I can create a story or two or three or four that are difficult to put down, if I can engross people in my stories and characters and share my world with others, then I’ve had accomplished what I want to do. Even if its one person, I’ll be happy. 

I just want to tell stories for the rest of my life and have people to sit with me and listen to me talk to them through the pages of a book. Hopefully several. 

I just want to give back. 

theladyem:

So recently you allowed me to read Crossfire. I know, it kinda almost seems like some sort of law of the universe that I read your drafts now. It’s not like I’ve been doing that for the past……I don’t even know how many years. How many drafts of SoF have I even read anyway? I can’t remember. Anyway! I am still as thankful as always that you allow me to be a beta-reader! It is seriously one of my greatest joys in life and lakdjal;kdfjakl; I love it ok. I just love the stories that come out of your mind, and I suspect I always will. Your brain children are my lovely fictional nephews and nieces and I just ADORE them to pieces.

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I don’t even know what to say. Well, I kinda do, so I’ll say it- I’ve been thinking that Crossfire is going to be my first publication for about half a year now. Ever since I started it in November, it’s flown out of my hands in a way that is new and exciting and somehow more polished then anything I’ve ever written. And, most of the time, I got lost in the story, and its just…so different. I feel like all I’ve learnt as a writer came across pretty strongly in Crossfire. It gives me such joy to know that you got lost in it too, and that you stopped comparing yourself and your own writing it to as you read it. Thats how I feel about books I utterly adore. They make you forget everything else entirely, and just immerse you in their characters and story without warning. 

I um, cannot believe you liked Crossfire more than Divergent. I LOVE Divergent to death. Crossfire started out as my silly idea to write a teen book I’d LOVE to read. Something with a strong, female lead who’s not falling all over the male protagonists, someone who has a male best friend she’s not in love with, someone who’s conflicted and stubborn and kick butt but still totally human. Someone who doesn’t spend paragraphs crying when life gets tough. Someone I could relate to. Weirdly, I don’t see a lot of that in teen fiction. At all. 

And just…that you forgot I was the one who wrote it several times…agh. This is exactly what I’d hoped for as I wrote it, and I don’t know what to do now that I’ve heard it. (Okay that’s a lie) I’m pretty confident it’s an easy story to pitch (easier then SoF, anyways) and that maybe this summer I’ll polish it up and then try to find an agent who will take it. Maybe this summer will be the summer I find my agent and publishing company. Who knows? 

Thank you so much for these words of encouragement. It means so much to me, and is really confirmation to things I was already considering. Especially since I never brought them up to you directly, so I feel valid in thinking them now that you’ve brought them up yourself. Just…thank you. It means so much to me that you read my stuff and enjoy it so much, and are there to encourage and support me.