17th July 2021
Author - m2ition
Hi, please tell us a bit about yourself and how you came to know about Wattpad.
Hello people, I'm amused by things that are shiny and make noise. I enjoy driving where my car is not allowed and making a fool of myself during those karaoke moments in traffic. I cross country road trip throughout the year and when forced to adult. I found Wattpad randomly on a google search at 1 a.m., sitting by the fire at my favorite Harvey hotel in Winslow, Arizona.
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On Wattpad, what do you notice first when you spot a story? A) Cover. B) Title. C) Read/Vote Count. D.) Genre [What do you find appealing first?]
B) the Title.
2.
What made you want to become a writer?
I needed an emotional outlet; a place to take my mind to decompress. I’ve always read biographies/memoirs, philosophy, expository/social justice, science, religion/spirituality, etc genres and I realized I never allowed my mind to breathe with fiction.
The more I started to read coming-of-age fiction and fantasy genres, the more I realized it was relaxing and ideas of my own started to form that I wrote down; typed, actually. Ha! It created a lot of positive emotions that I needed. I get happy, amused, peaceful, surprised, empathetic, etc.
3.
What life experiences have shaped your writing most?
Grief. I carry a strong amount of grief that I’ve always intended to turn into a memoir as a form of processing and healing. It’s something I've carried for years that I’ve never been able to verbalize. But the more I thought about the idea, the more I realized I was choking myself with only one concept. I didn’t think I was capable of writing fiction, until I checked myself into a hotel room for a few days with my laptop and let my mind go in any direction it wanted. It was cathartic. So yeah, what shaped the idea was grief, and I grew from there.
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If you could choose a book character of any story to be for a day, who would it be and why?
Professor Robert Landgon. (Dan Brown novels) basically because the guy gets to travel around the globe seeing and touching things that aren’t available to the public eye. I would especially like to see the Vatican Archives.
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Tell us a little about how your story first came to be. Did it start with an image, a voice, a concept, a dilemma, or something else?
I wanted to make flawed main characters. And I did. Ha! People either love or hate one of my main, or both. He drives them nuts.
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What special knowledge or research was required to write this book?
One of my main characters is a male. I had to put myself into that concept and I took most males I know and grew up with to make one incredibly stupid, yet lovable (half my readers would disagree with that) adult, who has no clue how to adult.
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What's the strangest thing you had to do while creating your story, if anything?
Derailing my story. I have major hooks in it that require me to derail the entire theme in several areas.
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