writer asks: 14, 19, 29 ✨
14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back?
14!! AGAIN! Ahhhhh, maybe another book story? So, same professor gave us a PDF of a chapter of a book. The book itself, apparently, at the time, had no title or author. Basically, a free existing chapter of something. Except, I didn't download it before he closed access. So I asked him for a copy. He ended up sending me his entire unedited yet to be published book. He didn't notice until the end of the year when I read the entire thing and started making fun of his annotations/things he had to fix/ask the editor about. He asked me to delete it. I never did. Let's call that borrowing, and he will never get it back.
19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?
I had selective mutism as a kid for a multitude of reasons. I wouldn't talk in class, and they put me through the ringer: hearing tests, vision tests, IQ/accommodation/literacy testing. Turns out I just didn't have anything to say, and if I did, nothing I said actually mattered. And it was largely left untreated, so I still, to some degree, have this problem. I will go days without digitally talking to anyone (whenever I post a hiatus sign, I am in one of those prolonged mute moments) and more often than not, if someone (partner or cat) doesn't talk to me first, I won't say anything all day. Writing was, and is, my main form of communication before it became a hobby and then a job. I had to stop publishing fanfiction when I went into graduate school, but I still wrote fanfiction and short stories. I recently got back into posting fanfiction again, alongside the writing demands of my job. Right now, writing is still all of three those things (communication, hobby, job) though I focus far more on nonfiction writing than fiction. It is also, unfortunately, the only coping mechanism I have, so I can't exactly stop because then I'll lose all three purposes. X)
29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?
I mostly draw inspiration from mundane things. I crave normalcy, so universal irritants are my main source: traffic, waiting in line, accidentally killing a plant, etc. Different side of the same coin: universal joys such as getting a good grade, painting your nails evenly, never running out of your favorite flavor of whatever, etc. I'm also lucky to have my harem of muses that put up with my flirting and banter, and I have some really wonderful pocket friends who also inspire me on the daily.
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