This is my interview with starfall_hysteria

They have 447 followers at the moment and 4 published works including poetry oneshots and lyrical beauty which has 1k reads.

1. You have been on this site for two years according to your page. Have you been actively writing this entire time and if so do you still enjoy it as much as you did when you started?

Yep I joined Wattpad in December 2018! It was a huge leap of faith for me, honestly, because for years before that I'd been an avid reader on Wattpad, and I was just really enamoured by the idea that maybe one day I'd be able to get my own works on here as well. I'm proud to say that yes, I have been actively writing since then! In fact, I think it would be fair to say that I started writing even more seriously after joining Wattpad because now I actually had an audience who appreciated the things I was putting out (it was a rather small audience at first, but it was motivation nonetheless.)

Joining Wattpad made me feel validated and somewhat recognised, especially when my works first started gaining attention around June of 2019, I think. I have taken a few breaks from writing, and I did have this long hiatus when I didn't write for more than two months, if I'm not wrong (and that's a really long time to not write for me!) but writing is a strange pursuit, really, in the sense that once you first fall into it you never really recover.

Throughout these two years I think I've fallen even more in love with writing and the power of words than I was when I first started, so you'll (hopefully) continue to see a lot more from me for quite a while!

2. Do you like reading on this site as well or mostly writing?

This question really takes me down memory lane haha! I remember very distinctly that the first encounter I had with Wattpad was reading Folie a Deux (a Frerard fancfiction - easily one of the best out there) when I was a very small child, and ever since then I just began dreaming that maybe one day i could publish stuff here, and maybe they'd reach the same level of recognition and love. I used to read very heavily on here, especially when I was first getting into the MCR fandom - because what better way is there to get involved in a band than reading about the members having questionable interactions?

Okay, but funny stuff aside, it was really the emotional depth and power of some of the works here that did it for me. In fact, it was one of your works - When Both Our Cars Collide - that really impacted me and was the kickstart to my writing journey here. I will admit that I read slightly less on here now than I used to, but I'm continuously on the search for hidden gems of books! The writing, of course, hasn't stopped.

3. Where do you get your inspiration to write from?

A lot of places! Inspiration is a sneaky thing; it creeps up on you in the most unexpected of places. Fun fact: a lot of my poems are constructed in the depths of my brain at 3am when I'm heavily sleep deprived but can't fall asleep :D

But I'd say I get a lot of my inspiration from music I listen to, things I read and things that happen around me. I mean hey, my first book (lyrical beauty) literally came about because I was in my feels after listening to Summertime by My Chemical Romance, and then I decided to build a whole collection around songs and their atmospheres.

Oh, and I can't talk about inspiration without shamelessly promoting my favourite literary giants - Shakespeare, Poe, Wilde, Kerouac, Angelou, and the whole gang really - they've been instrumental in helping me shape my style and voice as a writer.

4. What is the hardest part about writing for you?

This response is going to be messy, but let me just preface it a little bit: writing is not easy! As ironic as it may seem, I think the hardest part about writing for me is getting the words out. I say this from a lot of frustrated experience - many times, I've had wonderful ideas that sound beautiful and breathtaking in my head, but when I actually try to get them down in words and not just as fluffy ideas, it just doesn't come out right.

I think the thing about writing is that you need to be very connected to, and invested in the idea you're writing about for it to come out well. And that, for me, means getting in the right emotional state and being truly unfettered when you write. It is difficult to get to that state of mind sometimes, and I think that's definitely a challenge.

Of course, there's also the perennial problem of trying to find inspiration, because there are some days when you're just itching to write, but you can't seem to find something to write about. But oh well, I guess that's just part and parcel of being a writer!

5. Do you have a book of yours that you would recommend for people not sure where to start?

Hmm, I'm not entirely sure honestly! My works aren't really organised by theme right now, so I feel like you could start anywhere and end anywhere and still get the same experience. But if you'd like to witness (what I hope is) a gradual transformation and glow-up of my style over time, lyrical beauty would be an interesting read :)

6. If you could go back in time and do something differently on Wattpad what would it be?

Oh boy this is deep! But I'm a firm believer in the principle that everything, good or bad, happens for a reason. And honestly, ever since I first joined Wattpad, I've been met with nothing but beautiful people and amazing opportunities. So I don't think there's anything I would change about my time on here so far.

7. Do you have any plans for new books in the future?

New books? Oh, definitely! You guys on Wattpad are such a sweet and supportive audience, and that in itself motivates me to keep writing and putting books up. Currently, I think I'll be working on expanding lyrical beauty and my poetry oneshots first before posting anything completely new. So those two will be my main, active projects for a while. But that does in no way mean that I won't be working on other things on the side.

I definitely (hopefully) will still be doing shorter, one-time projects like thirty day writing challenges now and then. And for long-term projects, well in fact, I have been working on a few things that I do want to share with you guys eventually. No promises yet though - we'll take things one step at a time ;)

8. How do you juggle writing and your personal life?

These questions really flatter me, honestly, you make me sound as if I'm some world-renowned, chart-topping, accolade-laden author - I'm really not HAHA! But anyways, about the question. I don't think I can fully answer it because to me, writing's never been something necessarily 'separate' from my daily life. It's not something where I allot a certain amount of time each day to write or where I actively balance the time I spend writing with the rest of my time. I'm a closeted writer in that sense - I don't face the commitment you'd expect comes with the pursuit of writing. And maybe that's just because I'm not a professional. But I think it's more so because of the fact that I write in strange circumstances; at school, or in the midst of doing assignments, or during foggy two a.m. sleepless episodes.

Writing to me right now is an outlet for me to express my feelings or let my thoughts spill whenever I'm struck with an idea - and that can happen at really any time. It's almost a natural  knee-jerk reaction of sorts, to just pick up my phone and start typing something furiously whenever I am dealt with a situation or see things that I don't really know how else to react to. Writing, and I guess literary pursuit as a whole, has become so intertwined with my daily life that I don't consider it as a separate 'part' of my day; it's just there, always flowing and always existing.

So no, I can't say definitively that I really juggle writing and my personal life in that sense - the writing happens so organically that it might as well hold just as much weight as breathing. (I realise how pretentious I sound right now - I'm really not, I just have a dangerous obsession with words, that's all)

9. Would you like to one day work on getting a book published or do you write more for fun?

Oh, that's the dream, isn't it? I'd love to get something published one day. Not so much for the fame or anything like that, but to me, getting something published and put up for the world and his wife to see - the sense of pride and accomplishment and above all, liberation, that I imagine you'd get when you publish pieces that are so close to your heart - that feeling, I think, would truly be priceless. While writing is fun and all that, I just feel like getting something out there would be a culmination of sorts, or at the very least, a form of validation for all the intense emotion it took to write the pieces. My fingers are always crossed. I really hope I get to publish something one day.

10. What has been your best moment on Wattpad so far?

Beyond getting my works on here and getting love for my pieces - which is an amazing feeling - I think the thing I value most is being able to connect and form friendships with people on here. (Cliché but true!) I'd always envied people on Wattpad - the community just seemed like such a warm and welcoming place (to me, at least) and I'd longed to be a part of that for so long. I've met so many diverse and beautiful people through this site, and it's really a very fulfilling feeling when you realise that your feelings of admiration and friendship towards someone are reciprocated! so yes, my best moments on Wattpad were meeting the people who I still enjoy an awesome friendship with till now (shoutout to blooddeathandroses, Lovewinx101, All_Time_Kills, Aldebaranblack   and so so many more!)

Actually to be completely honest, one of my best moments here was getting recognised by you, Starr! I'd looked up to you and your writing for so long, and to think that 'Wattpad royalty' like you would actually take the time and effort to read my stuff and vote and comment on it truly meant so so much to me - it was quite the dream come true. So thank you for that! But really, I can't ever hope to pick one moment in isolation. I'm so incredibly grateful for everyone I've met here and everything they've done for me. I'm just bursting with love :)

Oh, and above all, thank you for doing this interview with me! I really had fun answering all your lovely questions, and it means a lot to me that you'd even consider doing something like this with me! Thank you once again, and all the best with everything heehee :) Love you (and all my beautiful friends) lots!!

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Love you all xxx

- starr