Interviewing: Ms_Liamsi
Interviewed by: Ella_Wisteria

Introduction:

Ms_Liamsi is the winner in the Short Story Category and she has won this place with her book Finding Omar.

Now, let's know a little about this author. Please read below to know about her.

Interviewing Ms_Liamsi

Personal Questions:

1. What is your name or nickname or pen name?

Answer: Ms-Liamsi

2. What is your nationality?

Answer: Somali.

3. How old are you?

Answer: 19

4. Are you a reader or a writer?

Answer: I am both but classify myself as a reader.

5. What are your hobbies?

Answer: Reading, photography and sleep^^

6. Any fun fact that you would life to share?

Answer: I talk to myself so much so people around me questions my sanity.

7. What is or are your favourite movies or show?

Answer: It’s a korean drama called W Two worlds.

8. What is or are your favourite food?

Answer: Pizza all the way.

9. What makes you smile when you feel sad?

Answer: Small and silly things tex a teddy bear or flowers or even looking up at the sky.

10.How many languages do you speak and what are they?

Answer: I speak 5 languages. Somali, English, Swedish, Arabic and French.

Professional Questions:

1. How often you are in Wattpad?

Answer: 1/3 of my everyday.

2. What started you on the path of writing?

Answer: Every 2 months I challenge myself to do what I don’t usually do so on July this year I challenged myself to write a book specially one I’ve been wanting to read in my life but didn’t find it.

3. When did you first realize that you wanted to start writing? How and why?

Answer: When I actually started to write did I realize that writing is something I enjoy and wanted to do.

4. When did you write your first book and how old were you that time?

Answer: July 2018.

5. What are some of your favourite authors on Wattpad?

Answer: It changes fast and very quickly but right now it’s TwistedApology.

6. How long have you been writing?

Answer: I used to write short stories for fun before but I started to get serious 6 months ago.

7. Do you only write in Wattpad? Or is there any other website you write? If yes, then which other website do you write on?

Answer: Only in Wattpad.

8. What do you love most about writing?

Answer: You get the chance to write your dream book and express yourself through it. I love that you create a whole new and different world and character’s fate that
only you can decide.

9. What keeps you motivated for your writing?

Answer: My fans that pushes me to finish what I started and my love for writing.

10.How many books have you written? Out of all your books, which book do you think is the most successful?

Answer: I’ve written 4 books but published only two and I would say 'Finding Omar,' is the most successful out of all my books which I find surprising because Finding Omar was book I started writing without a plan and structure like I had when I started my second book The Hijabi’s Romeo.

11. Are any of your characters based on people you know? If yes, would you like to mention some of the characters and how you related to them to your story.

Answer: I would say all my characters came from my personalities. I have a lot of personalities and hobbies so the center points of my characters are based on me which I later painted them further for them to become a completed character.

12.Who inspires you in writing?

Answer: To be honest I would say all the authors in wattpad. They’re so hardworking and writing masterpieces. And whenever I read books from wattpad I want to be like them.

13.What do your fans mean to you?

Answer: The world. Without them I wouldn’t even finish my first book Finding Omar.

14.What advice would you give to new writers?

Answer: Just Write. I consider myself as a newbie and i know how hard it is to begin writing but begin somewhere and I promise the rest will follow so just write.

15.What do you plan to do in future with your writing?

Answer: Hopefully my writing will get better and my dream of publishing will come true.