Writer's Meme

[miri_uchiha]

When did you first started writing?
- 2002 or 2003? When I was in Middle School. I didn't write any fanfiction back then. But I wrote stories of me and my friends and my crushes and I had this fantasy that we all lived together in the same suburb.

What was your favorite book growing up?
- Sister's Grimm By Michael Buckley and Manga. XP

Are you an avid reader?
- I used to love going to the library and borrowing 20+ books to read, but nowadays, I rarely have the time. I still read fanfiction online though. That still counts as reading, right?

Did you take any writing courses in school/college?
- I did take a Creative Writing course in college two years ago I believe and I thought it would be fun, but it wasn't. In fact, it was because of that class that made me realize that I didn't want to be an Author anymore. I didn't like that I had to limit myself to rules.

Have you read any writing-advice books?
- Just the one that I got from my English teacher in high school. It's a reference book in learning how to write perfectly structured sentences.

What's your biggest pet-peeve?
- Victims falling in love with their attackers/stalkers/bullies. In real life, that just doesn't happen unless they have some sort of condition that makes them think that their attacker did it out of love, but it usually isn't the case with most stories and it's really annoying. I see it happen in almost all romance fanfiction stories and it just drives me crazy. This is why it's so hard to find good romance stories nowadays.

Do you outline?
- Only for spontaneous story ideas and when my brain is many scenes ahead of my fingers, which happens a lot when I'm immersed in a story.

What's your favorite and least favorite part of making characters?
- For my original characters, I had fun creating their personalities. What I felt was daunting, was finding the perfect names for them.

What advice would you give to young writers?
- If you write for the reader's positive reviews, then don't publish it online unless you know that people will love it. Only if you write for yourself and not for others, do you really enjoy writing.

What is your favorite genre to write?
- I think most of my readers should know this by now, it's Mystery and Angst.

Which do you find the hardest part to write? The beginning, middle, or end?
- Well, that depends on the story idea and which area of the story it came from.

What's your oldest WIP?
- Win A Personal Slave For Life (DN Angel) [The storyline for this is so horrible, it's no wonder I stopped writing for it.]

What's your current WIP?
- Replacement Lover

Do you ship your own characters?
- Yes, I have. To the point where I forgot that I was the one who wrote them in the first place. In my original novel, The Familiar Face, there's this pairing, Shane and Tachi that's so cute. While I was editing the novel, I fell for their feelings of love for each other, that I wanted to read some Doujinshi about them. Then I realized that in order for me to read more about them, I would have to be the one to write it. I was so disappointed afterwards.

What do you do when characters don't follow the outline?
- I see if what the characters are trying to do will have some meaning in the long run and if it can tie easily into the timeline without changing anything. If the character's decision does nothing for the story, then in the next scene, I will make the character return back to how the story should flow.

Do you enjoy making your characters suffer?
- I don't necessarily enjoy it. But the story happens to turn out that way.

If you could live in any fictional world, which would it be?
- Hogwarts. Definitely.