GotTheStyles

1) "Name?"

Rachael.

2) "Age?"

I'm in my 20s *Retains sexy air of mystery*

3)" What are your hobbies?"

Travelling. Reading. Petting strangers dogs. Reading about serial killers at 3am then being unable to sleep. Drinking copious amounts of tea (yes, that is a hobby). Staring at pictures of Harry Styles while breathing heavily. Watching strangers argue in comment sections on the internet. Ya know, the usual stuff.

4) "When did you start writing and why?"

I'd never written any fiction until about 2016 when I wrote my first story on here.

5) "Which was your first story generally?"

I'd been reading loads of fanfics and decided to have a stab at my own. The result was Iridescent- a story with a plot I still like but horrendously crappy writing skills. I've taken half of it down to completely edit but my writing style has changed and developed so much that it's a huge task. *Sighs theatrically*

6) "Do you write in some other website except Wattpad?"

No, just Wattpad for me. I love the community here, I wouldn't want to write anywhere else.

7) "What has given you motive to keep on writing?"

My life is so busy these days that I don't often get a lot of time to write and I have to really push myself. I don't think I've ever found anything I enjoy doing in my free time as much as writing though, so just the pure pleasure of it motives me.

8 )"Have you ever wanted to give up everything? (writing I mean)"

In direct contradiction to my last answer, yes all the time. Mainly when I'm just going through a phase where it feels like everything I write is crap, but then I think about my hoards of adoring fans and decide that I can't let the two of them down.

Seriously though, if I let myself go too long without writing then it can seem like a massive task to get back into it and sometimes it just seems easier to not open wattpad and pretend it doesn't exist for a little while.

9) "Which is your favorite story on Wattpad?"

Oh this is really hard. I don't think I could choose. I love the stories of oceanlyfeand chanmapanand StylesClarityxx but there are literally hundreds of books on here that I've loved.

10) "Have you gained any friendship from Wattpad? If yes, which are your Wattpad friends?"

Oh loads! Wattpad is just the most gorgeous community of lovely people. You get the odd bad apple like @ellen_eml (only joking E, you're FAB) There are actually two girls who I met on wattpad when I first started on here. Both have since left the site but we all still talk every week and we've been friends for a couple years now. More recently there's the lovely @hallwaymeeting who is so positive and seriously lovely. @Rox1968 is amazing, she's so positive and encouraging- she's also direct and straight talking and I really like that. @chanmapan is my wattpad mum and the kindest person ever ♥️ @oceanlyfe is my friend (yes you are, Ashleigh, stop trying to wriggle away *clings to your legs*) @Minniemair is the person I ALWAYS associate with wattpad as she's been around since I started on here, she's been my rock on here since day one! There are a bunch of others but those are the first ones that spring to mind... Sorry if I haven't mentioned you, I still love you.

11) "Do you relate with any of your characters from your books? If yes, which one and which characteristics are similar?"

Lennon from When Lennon Met Harry is most like me, just for being really clumsy and always managing to get herself into extremely embarrassing situations. I don't overthink as much as her though- I'm a lot more impulsive, so I'm probably a mixture of Lennon and Hendrix from Build-a-Boyfriend. Clumsy, embarrassing and impulsive. How am I still single?

12) "What did you study /are you studying/do you want to study?"

I studied History and Politics, got my degree and settled into my 'dream' internship at this big company... Before realising that it just wasn't what I wanted. I could suddenly just see my life stretching out before me with all these goals I was supposed to hit and I just realised that I didn't want any of it. I applied for a teaching job in Malaysia, but that fell through... So I did the only rational thing I could and gave up my flat and job on a whim, sold everything I own and set off with a backpack, hoping that I could find work online. It's been almost 18 months and I'm still going strong! I can't imagine going home, every time I do I get itchy feet after a week or two.

13)" Describe yourself in 3 words."

Spontaneous, funny, deep-thinker (that becomes one word if I put a dash between it. FACT.)

14) "What do you advise new writers?"

Oh I have to repeat the old classics I'm afraid, because it really is true; Write for yourself, even if no one else reads it. Don't focus on votes, just focus on polishing your writing, readers will come in time!

(Questions with the help of this lovely , hallwaymeeting)

15)" Questions based on ' Build-A- Boyfriend' :  How were you inspired to write this story?"

I really enjoy writing comedy as I find it easiest to write. So I had the idea of making Harry a character who is completely clueless about everything from social norms to everyday occurrences- And the idea of him coming straight from a factory was born.

Then I started to think about what sort of romantic characters people would actually order if it were possible and, as we all know, I got a bit carried away....

16)"This question isn't related to the plot but what's the significance of you starting most of your stories with a quotation? Love that."

Oh thank you! There's three reasons I do that, the first is that no one else does so it's just my little 'thing', secondly, it sets the mood and finally- I've always loved quotes and snippets of poetry, I have a little leather book that I write them down in and flick through occasionally... I just wanted to put them to good use!

17)" Every character of the story has a 4D personality. How can you be so creative? it's wonderful. "

Thanks! The characters just seemed really real to me when I wrote them. In Build-a-Boyfriend they're all so absurd and I could really picture big, hulking Juan or Niall with his harem pants and hippy braids. Because they're so real in my head it just makes them easy to write and I don't have to think about their motivations and how they would react!

18)" BAB Harry is so adorable, everybody wants him while Hendrix is so relatable honestly it's hilarious. Do you relate to her yourself in anyway? "

Yes, definitely. The way she does ridiculous, dramatically impulsive things and leaves the consequences for later is definitely a terrible fault of mine. Also, the way she embraces the surreal and the absurd is something I can fully relate too.

19)"I bet every reader has a favourite part or dialogue from the book. Personally, mine is when during an argument, Harry tries to come up with a terrible enough curse word and the outcome we got was.. "poo head" lmfaoo"

Lmao, Harry is such an innocent little bean. I think my favourite Harry/Hendrix moment was when he tried to seduce his way out of trouble with the weeds and the silky thong. Or any moment with Dave the cat.

CRITICAL QUESTIONS

1)" What kind of secret society would you like to start?"

I would set up the Harry Styles appreciation society.

Members... Me and him.

Meeting place... His bedroom.

Secret 'handshake'... Would not be done with hands.

2)"If animals could talk, which would be the rudest?"

Skunks. I mean, they literally fart in your face if they don't want you around. You can't get ruder than that. Cats are a close second though.

Thank you so much GotTheStyles!!❤❤

All the love,
M.