Author:- epochbts
Interviewer:- Faith

Hello, I'm Faith, I'll be having a little chat with you today regarding your works. How may I address you?

You can call me Iman or my nickname 'Lune' which I don't even know why I made up, I don't mind.

So let's start with the first question, shall we?

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My first question to you is, what has been your biggest inspiration throughout the entire time you wrote your commendable works?

Inspiration? There are a lot including fellow fic writers but mainly, I get inspiration from random things not just limited to novels' or philosophers' quotes — I tend to listen to songs, lyrics, instrumentals and by searching through prompts, artworks or pictures on Pinterest too. I basically get inspiration from my environment, I think?

Might sound funny, but also from my own imagination and fake scenarios.

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I can relate to you.

Moving onto the next question, when and how did you realise you wanted to be a writer?

To be honest, I've written a few short paragraphs of stories when I was a child around the age of nine. The interest I had for writing wasn't strong at all back then and the first 'work' was me turning the movie 'Frozen' into a novel writing. I was a child. But even then, I wasn't attached to writing as I was to drawing. Other than that, I might have actually been inspired by the animes I watched or games I played too now that I think of it. I was around 10 to 13. I wrote in Microsoft Word, any note apps or free software on my  laptop original stories. At this point, I dreamed to publish some of them but since time was distracting and life issues started kicking my ass, I never wrote much but still planned almost the entire plots anyway. It just felt like a small hobby then and my parents asked me how my 'novel' was going, I just shrugged sheepishly. It was actually when quarantine first started around March of 2020 that I actually started writing and publishing on this app called Wattpad. It was around the time BTS' concept photos for Map of the Soul : 7 came out. Again, this might be funny but since I'm a fan of the Harry Potter series, I thought of alternate universes/fanfiction/plots with Jimin's MOTS:7 concept photo version 4. Here, I was chatting with my ARMY best friend about how attractive Jimin would be as a Slytherin and a student in Hogwarts so I just boldly published my first book 'Blueside'. I had so much free time in quarantine so I wrote and wrote, I started getting some nice comments and started feeling excited to write more scenes I had in mind for the fanfics.
The second work I have is 'Vigilante' and I also got some heartwarming feedbacks, especially the ones which said something along the lines of 'this is something I'd definitely buy at a bookstore' and 'this would definitely be a bestseller'. Vigilante is a fanfiction but unlike my other book Blueside which is inspired by Harry Potter's  universe, it was completely original. So when I got these types of feedbacks for the book, I  genuinely felt like I really wanted to be a writer. Of course, I already wanted to be a writer when I started Wattpad though I guess.

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This is interesting!

I noticed there are a lot of books yet to be started. Do you have any specific plans for them? Or any spoilers perhaps?

Oh yes, I do but actually some don't even have consistent description for now. Some of my friends/followers and mutuals here I knew that I had plans to write and publish non-fanfiction version of my fanfiction like 'Vigilante' and 'Perfect Match' but I don't think I will even get the time to prioritize these for now since I feel like I'm just laid-back, procrastinating or having fun. I mean, it's easier to fanfictions in a way because you know more although not so personally, about the characters you're writing. So I think my plans right now is to complete and edit Blueside first, give consistent updates for Vigilante and Perfect Match and maybe publish some prologues of my other drafts. 'Youth' would mix genres of supernatural, gangs and crime. All I can give right now for this is that it will be inspired from supernatural things in real life, like paranormal disturbances and they will revolve around the members' drama and friendship. I don't have much to give since I'm blank sometimes but I do have a little hint for Heir's Momento, set in an imaginary fantasy realm. The female will be knight/bodyguard kind of character. I don't want to accidentally make it sound weird hmm but like, doll who kills for someone, demure, delicate and allure but don't be surprised when blood suddenly pour from your head. I don't know why but I feel like giving hints about Taehyung's character would give too much ideas so I'm not gonna spill anything else — other than that this fanfiction will be filled with action. Action-romance, adventure, fantasy and DRAMA, yeah haha okay sorry I love drama.
'Sinners' is something I'm very excited to write about since it was picked off the drafts I wrote from when I was 13, and I have plans to publish it in another account in the future since it's a non-fanfiction, or should I just publish here? I don't know yet, but  I hope I can receive support from here too though!

Oh yeah, Heir's Momento would have fantasy powers for sure, including fantasy including world places like lairs, temples, kingdoms etc.

The Vmin version of it won't be so different. Jimin will have the role as the female lead in the KTH version.

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A general fiction sounds fun!

Is there any genre you've always wanted to try? Or do you plan on sticking to the current genres you like?

I'm pretty interested in trying to write Horror, simply because with supernatural and paranormal, here sparks horror right? I feel like it's an underrated genre too but anyways it would mix nicely with supernatural or crime and mystery which I like.

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I totally agree! I'm fan of both; horror and mystery and if they both are combined it'll sure make a masterpiece.

Moving on, how was your journey on wattpad from the beginning till now? I'm sure you had your ups and downs, how did you cope up with them?

I think I live a good life on wattpad to be honest if I exclude the times I argued with homophobic people in denial. I was laid-back but I admit, sometimes I overthink too much when writing a chapter. I have different books to write and give updates to. Sometimes I feel confused and scared if I am losing interest for my other books when I'm currently working on to update the other. Sometimes when I'm writing this other one, I feel more motivated to write the other ones but when I write this other one, likewise— I get inconsistent and writer blocks from time to time.
I don't like acknowledging this other problem too, that I sometimes think I actually have a career on Wattpad. I'm just doing what I like when I write but sometimes I feel wrong. I felt guilty, cringe or wrong when I use the members' names at first so I coped by writing longer disclaimers reminding that everything is fiction and we shouldn't project fiction into reality. Our imagination, works and the stories we read give us comfort though and I understand that for others, so I wonder why I couldn't understand that for myself? I became calmer then but the another down is that when I can't update consistently because of my procrastination, school giving so much work like what kind of school makes you sit in front of laptop from 7 in the morning to 2pm in the evening for online classes? I barely had time to finish assignments and make progress for my chapters especially since I write long chapters with the range being like from 7k words to sometimes 15k words. The word counts also made me feel bad because I knew well that some people have short attention span (I have it too), so reading too much inevitably makes you feel bored, forgetful etc sometimes. So I felt insensitive but some of my readers were joyful when I write more for each update so I stopped caring about word counts and just focused on the amount of  story progress I squish in for the chapter and for the short free time, I just somehow manage. I actually admire my "idk how to do it but I'll manage" ability to somehow get things done. I procrastinate, made graphics and opened my graphics shop to distract myself from writer's block.

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Oh I see. I must agree with you on the word limit part because I think it's something all the writers suffer from.

Moving on to the last part of the interview. Would you like to say something to the readers?

I really want to thank all my readers and also silent readers. Just knowing that people feel something from the stories I write make me feel content on the inside, I feel seen when I see interactions too. You guys are so nice and oh God thank you for putting up with my slow updates? I used to update every 1-3 days or weekly but now I update almost monthly. Thank you for waiting and being patient with me, and I hope everyone is doing well on and off-Wattpad. I'm just 16 years old so my words won't mean much as I lack experiences, moments and responsibilities, but I know some of you are struggling in your own lives. This would go to  not just my readers, followers and friends; please take of yourselves, don't be too cruel on yourselves when the world probably already is. You can't expect a broken leg to walk or someone to grab a pen to get some work done while their house is on fire. I got these words from a psychologist by the way. Be kind to yourselves, it's fine to not live life so intensely. Again, thanks for supporting me because you guys are actually indirectly helping me out by giving sweet words of encouragement and cute compliments.

Lastly — thanks for approaching me. I feel like I just rambled and let out some things from this interview, so it feels nice and warm like someone listened to me. I talk way too much and spontaneously so...I don't wanna sound corny but that's just how I am. Thank you for interviewing me, Faith.

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It was a pleasure getting to talk to you and learning a lot of things from you.

I wish you best of luck for everything you do in your life!

Thank you for investing your precious time in this interview.

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