WRITER'S SURVEY. Huzzah.

1. What’s the last thing you wrote?
the fourth draft on an essay about my personal worth.

2. Was it any good?
Good? Sure. Great? No.

3. What’s the first thing you wrote that you still have?
I think I have a composition book with my fifth-grade version of a murder-mystery short story in it. It's actually pretty brilliant.

4. Write poetry?
Yessiree.

5. Angsty poetry?
It takes more energy to have angst, and I'd miss some pretty nifty occasions stuck in gloom. So no. Angsty poetry usually isn't worth reading, too.

6. Favorite genre of writing?
Satire, humor, romance, realism.

7. Most fun character you’ve ever created?
I'd say Anna, Andy, and Mr. Muffins from What I Have So Far.

8. Most annoying character you’ve ever created?
Sara from Sara's Story, one of the reasons why I stopped writing it.

9. Best plot you’ve ever created?
"Sara's Story"'s plot kicked it old school: about people who imagined life backwards. Aka, what they "imagined" happened in real life, and once they realized that all shit went down, so they established an organization to control these people. So the main character, Sara, is one of these people, born into a family full of spies for the organization. And then some more shit goes down, and I had no idea how to end it so I stopped writing it.

10. Coolest plot twist you’ve ever created?
In my second novel, "What I Have So Far," which is completely different from "Sara's Story." It's about a seemingly "normal" eighteen-year-old boy and his struggle with being homosexual. All seems pretty hunkydory until he goes home to find his room ransacked with vulgar words spray painted on his room, and he finds his bf in a lump in his bf's room.

11. How often do you get writer’s block?
quite frequently

12. Write fan fiction?
I'm writing a naughty HP fanfic right now in conjunction with my awesome college friends in which Harry goes to the Hogwarts school for Pimping and Whoring, and the Gryffindors are all gay and Slytherins are all gay. (I just picture the eleven-year-old Harry sitting there and the sorting hat telling him, "Come on, Harry, you can be straight if you want to!)

13. Do you type or write by hand?
Both

14. Do you save everything you write?
Not at all.

15. Do you ever go back to an idea after you’ve abandoned it?
Holy shit, yes.

16. What’s your favorite thing you’ve written?
Definately "What I Have So Far," "The Hitch Hiker" and an essay that I wrote for Shakespeare class last year.

17. What’s everyone else’s favorite thing that you’ve written?
"the Hitch Hiker"

18. Do you ever show people your work?
Yes.

19. Did you ever write a novel?
See former comments.

20. Ever written romance or angsty teen drama?
Romance, but not limited to.

21. What’s your favorite setting for your characters?
Now, or close to now.

22. How many writing projects are you working on right now?
One, and college.

23. Do you want to write for a living?
Sure.

24. Have you ever won an award for your writing?
Yeah, but it was those crappy high school achievements. I don't think those count.

25. Ever written anything in script or play format?
Almost.

26. What are your five favorite words?
depillate, defenestrate, profilactic, forsythia, and create

27. Do you ever write based on yourself?
Sure.

28. What character have you created that is most like yourself?
Anna from "What I Have So Far"

29. Where do you get ideas for your characters?
People around me.

30. Do you ever write based on your dreams?
Yes. "What I Have So Far" is from a dream.

31. Do you favor happy endings, sad endings or cliff-hangers?
I like a mixed bag, or an abrupt ending. I'm strange like that.

32. Have you ever written based on an artwork you’ve seen?
Nope.

33. Are you concerned with spelling and grammar as you write?
Nope.

34. Ever write anything in chatspeak (how r u?)
Hells no.

35. Entirely in L337?
No.

36. Was that question appalling and unwriterly?
Not really. I don't get offended easily.

38. Does music help you write?
Yes.

39. Quote something you’ve written. Whatever pops into your head.
From "Cicadas"
"Around three o’ clock every day, my brothers and I sat and watched for something new to happen. But what we really watched for was that blue pick-up, the one we’d lost when I was four, the morning that daddy left to go to work at the plant. But we never saw that pick-up. Not once. We only saw an elm tree, a brown horizon, and a sky that told us to keep waiting."

see ya'll later