There are many jobs I truly want as a Jill-of-all-trades, however, my main dream job is writing. As I've had this hobby as long as I can remember and I've honed my skills in it since I was a teen. ( And in honour of this post I'll be doing a...
Bonus: 20 Questions for Writers!!
Q: How much of the world around you is reflected in your work and in what way? (Thoughts, moments, impressions, moods, landscapes, objects, people, scenes…)
A: My Christian faith, my heritage, especially my Celtic heritage, the nature trail/woods, willows, and field by my apartment, my daddy's Jesus painting, and my experience with mental illness.
Q: What is one thing you absolutely can’t do without in your writing?
A: Music. Especially Celtic or Metal.
Q: What are your favourite clichés?
A: Deaths before that character wakes back up, with a happy ending or beginning as it may be.
A: The significant other keeping secrets from their significant other before and after proposal out of fear of disappointing them only to find that they'd not care had they told
A: Base it on the inspiration of a song or on something I wrote in it
Q: Tell us about the things you love best in worldbuilding.
A: 1) drawing the maps/flags 2) making up names for countries/people/towns 3) making creatures/races
Q: When you choose a new book, what do you look for?
A: Typically fantasy in other worlds and based in the real world. I enjoy dragon rider books, guardian-themed books, superhero, and dystopian, post-apocolyptic, etc.
Q: What are your literary inspirations?
A: Donita K. Paul's books, Melanie Dickerson's books, JK Rowling's books, and LOTR, Narnia
Q: What are your real-life inspirations?
A: Michael Card, Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller, Bonifacio Tuzan Fahel Jr. (RIP Dear Papa Bud), My Parents (Valerie Fahel-Schaffer & Greggory Schaffer), Bethany Hamilton, Rich Mullins, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, Cassie Bernall, Rachel Scott, Corrie Ten Boom, Trevor McNevan, Nathan Feuerstein, Chris Greenwood, Martin Luther, Vincent Van Gogh, and Brian Hardin, Lottie Moon, Job, King David, Saint Patrick, Tim Hawkins, Queen Esther, Tobymac, Michael Tait, Robin Williams, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Alex and Brett Harris, Saint Peter(Simon Peter), Kevin Max, Brennan Manning and Mother Teresa.
Q: Are you the kind of writer who overshares about every little thing or do you keep it all under wraps till it’s done?
A: I am often doing both of these and but it depends on my mindset.
Q: What’s the easiest character for you to write?
A: Morwynne Gael
A: I am quite proud of having completed this poetry book, Rainbow Slices and the work I put in it to be unique
Q: Do you read out loud to yourself as you write just to gauge the feeling of it?
A: Yes. Sometimes.
Q: How has your writing changed throughout the years?
A: It's more poetic, more flowing and unique and original than when I started.
Q: What’s the most difficult thing for you to write?
A: Mystery and realistic fiction
Q: Share a happy memory related to your writing.
A: The happiest memory I can share was when I recieved this dedication on Wattpad:
Q: Is there anything you wanna share with the class? Advice? A funny anecdote?
A: Writing is an amazing coping skill. My advice is for people to try it at least once before shooting the idea down. And for writers, the best advice I can give is to keep writing. You wanna improve? Write. You need to break writer's block? Write. Any problems a writer has with writing I believe can be fixed if you simply write haha
Q: How do you come up with new story ideas?
A: music, base it on an analogy of my life etc.
Q: What’s your ideal writing space? Share all about this fantasy of yours!
A: 1) Notebook.ai 2) Wattpad.com 3) at my computer desk in my little corner
Q: Tell us a cool fact about one of your works or your characters.
A: The Brave was based on my surroundings and my experience with demons and what pushed me away from it. Also, the bases were inspired by places I lived in and the idea of how they were most of the time seclusive and felt like their own little world
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