Newer, new job and Writing Questionnaire

Your daily dose of Black Sabbath:
Now I have you with me under my power
Our love grows stronger now with every hour
Look into my eyes you'll see who I am
My name is Lucifer please take my hand


On Writing, stolen from

1. What led you to write?
I was always a very imaginative child, and loved to read, so it just seemed natural for me to bring those things together and try to write something imaginative and readable.

2. When did you start writing?
I started writing seriously when I was 12 or 13 years old.

3. What does writing represent in your life?
A way for me to express and vent feelings and emotions, ideas and concepts. My writing evolves with who I am.

4. Are you happy with your current style?
I don't really have a style, but I'm happy with the last two things I put out. cel3131.deviantart.com/art/Who… and cel3131.deviantart.com/art/Alw… They seem more mine than anything I've written in a long time.

5. Do you do editing?
Of my own work? Of course. I edit like mad, sometimes to the point where a story in no way resembles what it started off as. And I read over what I've written dozens of times before sharing it with others.

6. Do you read about writing (creative writing books, grammar books...)?
If it sounds interesting, not for the purpose of learning though. For instance I read Stephen King's book on writing, because I thought it would be interesting.

7. Favorite genre?
Historical fiction.

8. Favorite author(s)?
Stephen King, W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear.

9. Favorite book?
Difficult question for a librarian to answer... maybe "The Earth, my Butt, and Other Big Round Things" by Carolyn Mackler. It makes me happy and feel good about myself.

10. What do you prefer to write?
Whatever flows well at the moment of writing and sounds good when I read it to myself.

11. Is there anything you can't write?
Horror and suspense type stuff, or deep, thought provoking poetry.

12. What is the weirdest thing you have ever written?
Probably a poem about dirt biking, for my 7th grade English class.

13. Choose a topic: love, death, friendship. Now write a couple of lines about it.
Love is pain, love is silence, love is jealousy, love is never letting go even when it's killing you.

14. Do you think you have influences from any professional writer? if so, which ones?
Stephen King. He says to write about what you know. Best advice I've ever been given.

15. Worst book you have read so far?
"Sons and Lovers" by D. H. Lawrence.

16. Why is it so bad, in your opinion?
It may be considered a classical masterpiece, and I will admit beautifully written, but utter agony to read nonetheless because nothing interesting ever happens.

17. Choose one of your characters and describe them in 3 words.
Moonrise: Unique, pre-destined, lost

18. Does your character feel 'alive'?
No.

19. Could you kill this character?
Now that I'm kind of done with her - her, not the story, it'll never be done - probably.

20. Do you hate any of your own characters?
Nidysbo, my very first main character. She was so ridiculous, pretty much everything the 12 years old me wanted to be or wished she had. Including a bedroom in a castle tower, magic powers and talking unicorn. Oh and she was royalty. Yeah. Haaate.

21. Now, let's be honest. Every writer has their own favorite creation: what's your favorite story, out of everything you have written/planned to write? and character?
Um, let me think. On dA, probably my spider sonnet cel3131.deviantart.com/art/Lov… but a few years ago I wrote this heavily alliterated children's story about a suede sofa... I'll post it eventually, someday.

As for a character? I haven't got one. I tend to have one night stands with my characters, fuck 'em and leave 'em in the morning, never to see them again.

22. Have you ever abandoned an idea for a story? Why?
All the time, usually because I just can't elaborate the damn thing into anything more than just an idea.

23. Have you ever deleted a whole piece of work? Why?
I do so very rarely. I'm a pack rat, and keep pretty much everything I write, even if it's just a lamely written paragraph into a zombie story, or a phrase about some strange old woman.

24. And finally: make up a completely original character right now and describe them briefly. It doesn't even have to be human!

Wallace, the wall spider. He likes to weave love letters in his web, dedicated to the old woman who feeds him juicy, fat crickets and lets him live in the corner of her kitchen. The old woman is deathly allergic to wasps, so one day when one sneaks into the house, he makes it his job to catch and kill it, to keep the old woman safe.