Interview with:anastar [anastar]
WRITING
 | What did you first read? How did you begin to write? Who were the first to read what you wrote? When I was about nine or ten, I started to read those fearstreet novels for young adults. I read them in french(my native language) and later on read them in english. Then in fifth grade, I wrote a christmas story that my teacher loved, she said that I had a great, creative talent. It later inspired me to write dark fantasy stories that I wrote at night by candle lights. I used to write with pen and paper, until I discovered the computer. Now my computer is my best friend.
My best friend Cindhy was the first one to read my stories. Then, I have a close friend named Bonnie, who read all my poems. She was the first grown up I showed my work to. My mom also reads my stories, except erotica. |
| What is your favorite genre? Can you provide a link to a site where we can read some of your work or learn something about it? |
| What voice do you find most to your liking: first person or third person? I've done both in my writing, I guess it depends on the story. Some stories were better suited for first person, when others a third person is better. I don't really have a preference but I tend to write in third person in most my stories. It just happened that way. |
| What is required for a character to be believable? How do you create yours? My characters are usually very emotional. And I think that is the key for a deep connection between the reader and the characters. To feel a character gets you to understand the story much more and live it as though it were real. To me, that is what makes a character believable.
I visualise my characters before writing about them. I do a great deal of plotting the story and let the characters come to me. After that, the characters lead the way and I write about it. |
| Does reader feed-back help you? Oh yes it does. When I first posted my stories on writing.com, I wasn't very confident and ended up removing them all. But then I received an email asking if I had more of my story Claire and Jesse. So for a while, I sent her my chapters, and continued to write because one person loved my story. And that is what encouraged me to continue in my writing and I eventually got the guts to send it to a publisher. So I think that feed-back is very important for writers. It gives you perspective on how your stories are seen by the outside world. If one person enjoyed it, then I did my job. If more people loved it, then that's a great, appreciative bonus. |
| Do you participate in competitions? Have you received any awards? Yes I've participated in contests at writing.com and won ribbons and merit badges. I've also participated in a contest at clean sheets e-zyne. I didn't win but they liked my piece so much, they published it on their site. It's called Dreamy Offering. |
| What do you surround yourself with in your work area in order to help your concentrate? Well, when I wrote The Priestess of Infinity, I surrounded myself (and computer) with fairy pictures, gemstones, fairy figurines and candles. I also burn some incense and I tend to put a movie, usually horror, I've already seen on auto play. It gets me in the mood of the story.
When I was writing Claire and Jesse, I surrounded myself with yaoi(gaylove) manga and other gay stuff.
I think that what you are surrounded by, highly influences your writing. So whatever theme your story is about, surround yourself with objects and music, similar to your theme. I wrote Carnal Beads while I was watching tipping the velvet. The story is from 1900 and so I wrote CB the same way. |
| What are you working on now? I'm working on a werewolf thriller novel and some short erotic stories. I'm always writing. |
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