So I stumbled across this post and inspired to do the same thing. Questions are taken from the same blog (which was also taken from other site as you could read yourself), so the only different things here is only my answers. It’s indeed fun, and you could also try this out to kill some time ;) Reblog this!
The Questions
- What is your favorite word in the English language?
‘Really’ and ‘indeed,’ I suppose, for I’ve been using those two words quite frequently. Don’t know why but those two words keep appearing every time I try to write a conversation. - Do you prefer writing poems or stories?
Stories. Definitely stories. I enjoy poem but I definitely enjoy stories better. - Where do you get your inspiration?
Erm, well… games, movies, other novels I read, and definitely reality. - What is you least favorite word?
Hmmm, can’t think of any right now, but I don’t think there’s any at all. I will update this later if I could think of any, though. - When and where do you like to write?
Ideally, I’d picture myself writing in a coffee shop (while drinking cups of coffees), but I think I shouldn’t wait to be in that place to be able to write something. When I got the idea for a story (mostly short–really short–stories these days), I would look for anything: cell phone, pencil, pen, papers, notes that would allow me to write the ideas before I lost them. - What do you think makes a good writer?
The great concept they have. I don’t know whether this is the appropriate answer, but I always adore those writers who have these concept of the world of their story, the characters as well as the traits of each characters and such–their concept as a whole. I always miss this and got chunks of concepts instead of a whole complete nice concept. (Did I make myself clear?) - Do you, according to the criteria you just described, think of yourself as a good writer?
Nah. Not yet, but I wish I would be someday. - What is one thing you hate about writing?
To have the incomplete concept. To fill in the gaps and such. Most of the time I have these ideas how I should start and how I should end the story, as well as how the conflicts, climax and anticlimax would be, but I’m always confused what to write to fill in the gaps. Damn. Any suggestion, writer fellas? - Why do you write?
Because I love writing. I love putting and arranging words nicely, and to be able to express myself in a way that I’m unable to do in reality. Some people are better with words, you know. (Or is it just me?) - Who do you write for?
Myself. And perhaps some other close friends out there, who share the same passion and interests. - What is the best book you have ever read?
Wow, this is tough. I would have to choose between Jostein Gaarder’s The Castle In The Pyrenees and Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White, but in terms of concept, I think I have to say that I’m in awe with the latter.
- Who do you look up to?
In terms of authors, I would definitely say Jostein Gaarder. I love all his novels. (All that I’ve read, of course.)
- What do you think makes you able to write?
These ideas and conversations and scenes that won’t stop playing in my head; and I know that I just have to write them down before I lose them. - Do you ever get writer’s block?
Whoa. Often. Especially when I’m running out of ideas of what to write to fill in the gaps. Or when I reread my writings and think it’s not good enough. I had scrapped plenty of my writings already :( And perhaps when I’m afraid to write. Damn. - What is the next thing you are going to write?
Hmmm, I got this story already, I’m thinking a story of a mother and a daughter, who got something like a… broken relationships, and I plan to make it an open-ending, perhaps. And the story, sadly, would be most likely written in Indonesian, but like I said, I’m still figuring out how to fill in the gaps between the climax, anti-climax, and ending. Urrghh, I feel like I’m a bad writer already.
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