#ohbela

11: What’s your favorite book cover?

Ah, that’s a difficult question. I’m just in love with the whole look of my Edgar Allan Poe collection book and the Sciencia & Quadrivium books.

22: Do you start with characters or plot?

It depends on which is more complicated, because I usually start with the more time-taking stuff. So if the characters are really really complex, I need to understand them perfectly myself, before being able to put them into a working plot. And vice versa. If the plot idea is going to take a lot of time to fully make out, I work on it as much as possible, before thinking about the characters I want to write.

Most of the time though, I start with the characters. I think they are way more important than the plot. I personally enjoy reading stories with cool characters even though the plot is not completely my sort of thing, while I can’t stand well thought out stories with characters I can’t relate to or just don’t like.

28: Which do you find hardest: the beginning, the middle, or the end?

The beginning is the easiest part to write. While you can play around a lot in the middle, while still bringing the story forward, it might be a little more difficult, but it’s still manageable. I’ve found myself having a lot of trouble with the end, mostly. It’s the hardest part of any story, since you don’t really want a story to end or at least give it an ending that seems worthy of your whole work. Both is very hard to me.

47: If you could steal one character from another author and make then yours, who would it be and why?

Since I prefer writing over reading, there aren’t many characters I can think of here. If I were to pick one though, it would probably be Flavia de Luce, because I absolutely adore her. She reminds me a lot of Wednesday Addams and she would fit perfectly in some of my stories.

50: If you could live in any fictional world, which would it be?