Short Writer's Survey

[miri_uchiha]

What were you like at school?
- Totally opposite to how people percieve me online.

Were you good at English?
- I thought I was until I took Honors English during my Freshman year of high school and barely passed it. Only because there were a ton of project presentations and presenting in front of a class was not something I liked doing.

So, what have you written?
- I have written a lot of fanfiction. Aside from fanfiction, I also wrote original fiction in which I won NaNoWriMo in 2010 by writing 50K words in three weeks. Since that time, I've written about ten other original works, but all are unfinished. I also dabble in poetry as well, but my motivation for it depends if I'm in a sad mood. If I'm in any other mood than sad, I can't write poetry.

Where can people see your works?
- My fanfiction works can be seen on Fanfiction.Net and Livejournal. As for my original works ... I don't plan on uploading them onto the internet.

What are you working on at the moment?
- I was planning on writing drabbles because I barely have enough time to do more than that, but as I was writing the fifth drabble, I realized that three of them were in the same AU verse and for a moment I thought that it would be a good idea to combine them into a chapter story. Three days later with the first chapter half finished and two new drabbles were added into the AU verse, I've decided to continue writing drabbles for the AU as well as make the chaptered story separately just in case I'm too lazy to string the drabbles together into a coherent chapter story.

What is it about?
- The first drabble that started this AU drabble series began with YunJae watching an underground fighting match and commenting on a particular fighter about who would be the one to train him. (I know it's not much, but I don't want to give away too much.)

How much research do you do?
- Enough to give accurate information. In the story above, I spent about twenty minutes trying to understand Seoul's subway train system for this one short scene in my story. It was horrible. I think the only way a writer can accurately research something is for them to go to that specific location and experience it themselves. In which, I do not have the time or money to do so. =/

Have you written any other novels in collaboration with other writers?
- No, but I would love to. Just the thought of bouncing ideas with another person makes me excited.

How do you think you've evolved creatively?
- By making the story more relatable to my readers and addressing taboo issues that people are too scared to talk about.

What's the hardest thing about writing?
- Putting the exact words/image from my head to a document.

What book(s) are you reading at the moment?
- "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane" by Katherine Howe. I also have "Phantoms In The Brain" by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, a book which my Biology teacher suggested, in my library's waitlist.

Do you think that the cover of a book, plays an important part in the buying process?
- To some people, yes, including me. However, if the cover looks interesting but the short summary of the story doesn't pull me in, then I won't buy it.