#dysfunctional-art

C: (Fav original character/Fav character written by someone else) Well, my favorite character of my own to write is definitely Nich (pronounced like Nick), one of the main characters of my novel. He reminds me so much of me in how he deals with things and how he reacts to challenges. He just has so many things stacked against him, be it his mental illnesses or his sexuality or his family, but he keeps fighting. His inner monologues are always my favorite because they’re so much ‘what do I do? why do I think this? what if this happened? how should I do this?’ That and his interactions with his family, be it his distant mother or asshole brothers. Nich is definitely my favorite and if someone told me he would be instead of the other main character Olivia when I was writing the first draft, I probably would have laughed.

Now, my favorite character written by someone else… probably Laurent from the Captive Prince trilogy. (I’d say Hux too but honestly I enjoy every fan interpretation of him, and thats too much to narrow down. Plus I can’t just say from Star Wars because… he only has three and a half minutes of screen time, and while Domhnall did magnificent work in those three minutes, my love for Hux is buried deep in subtext and not what happened during the plot of Force Awakens) ANYWAY, Laurent… God, I don’t know how to fully describe Laurent. Laurent does remind me of a lot of Hux in the way he’s so ‘I don’t fucking care what anyone has to say to me.’ He’s so blunt and so apathetic and only lets down his walls for one person and even then it takes A LONG time for him to be frank with Damen. I love how he always has another plan up his sleeve and how he refuses to show if anything gets to him. 

Personally I think Laurent is how my character Nich wants to act, but is unable to control his emotions as well as Laurent can. I like both of these characters because they do only confide in a few people and if those people hurt them it really shows later on in how they confide to other people. They walled off and broken down but eventually someone special takes those walls apart and allows them to be themselves again, past all the trauma and emotional/physical abuse they’ve faced in the past.

P: (Goals for the future with your writing) Oh Lord, definitely get published. At this point that’s the be all-end all for me. Of course, I’d love to become a best selling author and have a large fandom later on but thats just fantasy at the moment. My real long term goal is to get a literary agent and get my novels published by a respectable publisher. 

Y: (Perfect prose? Describe your prose) Um… I’m not really sure if I can describe what ‘perfect prose’ is. But I’ll do my best. For me, it would probably be prose where you can honestly feel the atmosphere come off the page in front of you and it’s one of those books that literally pulls you in and you’re kind of disoriented after finishing it. A good mix of description and characters. I hate when I don’t know where characters are and how it feels to be to be where they are. I take description rather seriously. But I’ve also noticed recently, writers will focus on those two things (characters and description) at the expense of their plot, which in turn gets messy and hard to follow. This is passable when it’s a rather simple plot (i.e. Captive Prince) but when it gets complicated the book almost falls apart for me (i.e. Raven Boys).