Your writing (especially from Kyngdom/the Nobyl RP) is really nice! And all of the answers you gave were quite interesting.

:DDD tysm!! your words and encouragement mean a lot <33

1. Is there anything in particular that inspires you to write?

I suppose just whatever comes to mind! Usually contests help push me to write something, or a simple spur-of-the-moment idea. Though what helps me to continue to write is likely anyone who reads it (like CB!) and it's really encouraging and feels worth it whenever someone compliments my writing.

2. Do you consider yourself writing for yourself or for others? What prompts you to share your writing with other people?

I think I write more for myself in the beginning when inspiration hits, but if I run into writer's block, it's others that keep me writing, whether that be encouragement or just the simple fact that they read it. I share my writing with other people to hopefully have them feel something (emotions or meanings) from my writing and maybe inspire them to write as well!

3. If all your stories/poems except one were going to be irrevocably lost, which would you save?

Ahh that's hard to choose! I would probably save one of my stories, maybe my collaborative story with my friends or a short-ish fantasy story I wrote about dragons. If I could save a poem, I might save the poem A Single Drop of Rain (which I entered in the poetry contest).

4. What qualities do you admire most in a book/want your own writing to have?

I really admire how stories can spin beautiful and complex worlds that readers can feel easily attatched to somehow despite its unfamiliarity, and how authors can write so much emotion and pack it all into their readers. I want to be able to write a story that can do that, like make a character that readers feel extremely attatched to and a fantasy world that is just perfectly and uniquely built that inspires other writers.

5. Do you want your writing to inspire others? In what way?

I would want to inspire others to either write stories of their own or feel that they can make a change in the world through their writing or their actions.

6. What do you like most about writing?

What I love most is that you can be creative with it! You can write about absolutely whatever you want, in any genre you want depending on what you feel like, and inspire whatever emotion you want in readers. 

I'll have the next interview questions sometime soon~ 

Thank you so much for the lovely introduction! I did indeed write a text adventure (around the beginning of this year, titled Text Adventure! and under the name Rose T), and I've also created an RP, a ski lodge, and a solo write, all of which lived and died a while ago. Anyway:

1. What got you into writing?

When I was seven, I started a diary. At first it was very mundane, but then COVID happened and I started writing more stuff (and more interesting stuff too) because I had more time. When I was nine years old, if I'm to guess in February or March 2021, I was writing in my diary and then I suddenly thought, "I should be a writer." That was also around the time when I read the Harry Potter series, which was my entry into reading middle-grade fiction (this is what I like to write) and really inspiring to me.

2. What is your favorite piece of writing out of all you have written?

It is either a story I wrote about a girl who goes to spy school and worries about making new friends and missing her brother, makes new friends well enough, manages not to lose contact with her brother, and solves this mystery involving a politician training magpies to steal money from a bank (this sounds really strange), or one I wrote about three children, one of whom is given this watch which keeps time moving along and then it's stolen from her so she and the other two children get the watch back. A close second, probably, is this set of four stories about a girl who's a member of a detective organization and then has to solve a case, which leads to another one whose perpetrators are still around and uncaught, and her trainer, also her cousin, runs away during it, so then she has to find the cousin. (All of these are finished; I feel like I can't properly judge unfinished stories.) If it isn't obvious, I like mysteries, especially blends of mysteries and fantasy stories.

3. What do you want your readers to feel after reading your writing?

Like they read something good, which I'm sure is a common answer :). But also, that the story and characters will stay with them, and that the story resonates with them on some level. It's so nice to find yourself or an element of yourself in a book, so I hope people will find themselves in my books.

4. What keeps encouraging you to write?

Partly because I think I may become a writer professionally, but also because it's fun and it's sort of my way of sharing myself with the world and an outlet for everything in my life. I do play an instrument, but right now it feels more "I must learn to play Gossec's gavotte in the key of G" than "I will express myself while playing Gossec's gavotte in the key of G", and I don't love visual art, so writing is sort of my chosen art form. 

5. Favorite character?

My favorite character who I've written is possibly the girl who's the member of a detective organization (explained above). My writing always has a sense of place (as in I describe a lot of the geography of wherever the story's set, whether it really exists or not), and anyone who's seen this can attest to it, and the place that is in the story is quite like my hometown, so it feels very real. The girl (named Joanne Carlisle, and I suppose I should call her by her real name) is also a lot like me; she's shy and astute and also develops her confidence (fingers crossed this happens to me). A lot of my characters are similar to me, and not one (even for things I've planned and not written) has zero traits in common with myself. This might sound narcissistic, but it is very hard to write what you don't know, so people write what they do know.

6. What message would you like to give readers or other writers? 

My message to other writers is to keep writing. It's a good idea to write, because people will know what you think and believe and find is interesting. And your story will be out of you, and it's interesting to you and not all but some others, so it deserves to be out of you, no matter what people say. This isn't only true for work that reminds you of yourself--even if you're writing about things that have no relation to you, your personality will still penetrate the story, and this is fine. Let it. If your personality does not penetrate the story, then it's not yours.
My advice to readers is the same, because I think it's a good idea to tell stories, even if you never publish them. Whatever it is, everyone has something to say, and it should not be bottled up.

Sorry! I stopped checking, but I will answer in near future 

I like that advice :D Sorry if it sounds rude, but did anyone else want to be interviewed?

Could someone else please do it? I would appreciate that :)

I have already been interviewed actually :) but Bobcat hasn't yet!

Feiya says MTOCK. The Phantom Tollbooth, anyone? :DD