5, 14, 15, and 17
5) character you were most surprised to end up writing
Another answer to this is Alcibiades! Oh, Al. We’re super obsessed with the real and historical Alcibiades but all stories of him are so completely different from the Al who took that guy’s namesake, which was super unexpected.
14) do you make playlists for your current wips?
YES and then we don’t share them because we’re shy.
15) why did you start writing?
Jaida here as…before…Danielle has no idea that I have overtaken our tumblr and am, probably, ruining it!
But I have an answer for this! I have this intense memory from fourth grade, after I watched the fantasy movie Willow and became obsessed with these two pixie characters whose names I didn’t even know. This was before “just look it up on the internet” was a thing (I’m old) so I made up new names for them and wrote a terrible story that was, I realize now, self-insert fanfiction. This was for an English class creative writing assignment, and after I handed it in to the teacher, she read it out loud to the class a few days later. There were a couple of kids in that class (oh, who am I kidding, I had one friend and was a complete social outcast) who were usually super mean to me and bullied the fuck out of me normally, but I remember them telling me after the teacher read the story out loud, “That was really good! You should be a writer,” and I was like, that’s the first nice thing these jerks have ever said to me, words are MAGIC. So that’s why I started writing more and more. The end.
17) if you could give your fledgling author self any advice, what would it be?
“You’re too young for this and you will lose your shit completely.” Also, “Therapy will really help you, you should get on that sooner.”