hyacinth: do you prefer to write angst or fluff?

Well it’s not a story without some form of conflict – basically ‘something’ has to happen to get the characters moving across the page. That conflict imo needs some kind of emotive hook otherwise the characters (and therefore the readers) aren’t going to care. Also there’s angst and there is angst. Erm I don’t think I’m explaining this right. Probably fluff as I do like to fix things.

hydrangea: what inspired you to begin writing in the first place?

What way back when? I don’t know, that’s before my memories kick in. I was really little – writing is something I’ve done for as long as I can remember. So I really couldn’t tell you why I first picked up a crayon. Anyway, the first story I actually remember finishing was when I was 11 and it was fanfic. I had written lots of scenes before that but that was all they were – scenes/snippets, nothing completed.

Basically when I was 11 I’d never really had any friends and high school didn’t seem like it would change anything on that score. I started volunteering in the school library and this older girl was trying to make a fansite. I could make websites from scratch (very ugly ones) and so it wasn’t hard to fix the link she was struggling with. After that we were sort of friends and I got into the show she liked so we could stay that way. We fell out a year later, she was 16 and had graduated, and I was 12 and didn’t deal with conflict very well.

It got quite messy and it ended with me leaving the site we supposedly ‘co-ran’ and basically leaving that fandom which I was cool with. I’d found a new fandom by then which I actually liked. So yeah, that’s sort of how I developed my writing. Randomly until 11, fanfic until 16, original works until 26 and then a mix of original and rumbelle for the past year and a bit.