Playing the catch-up game~
In fanfic who is your favorite author, and how has that person helped inspire your work?
I have a lot of different favourites, because everyone writes different things that I tend to like. I like to think I draw a little inspiration from everyone in different ways, to be honest. Mare definitely inspired me to write more stories about the boys themselves and to branch out from my Nick romance roots, which is probably the biggest step my writing has taken, so I'll go with her. Plus, there are a lot of her stories I re-read often.
Has there been an author or a story you've been skeptical to check out and once you do, you actually like it?
Hmmm... well way back when, all of my friends were really into that I Need You Tonight story. I tried a few times to read the first chapter but wasn't so into it. Then when I finally sat down and read the whole thing, I fell in love with it. I have all of it saved and have re-read it recently. It had a really slow start though and I guess that's why I couldn't get into at first. On my re-reads I usually skip the first couple of chapters because they're boring.
if you could collab with any author (besides people you've already collabed with) who would you want to work with?
Honestly my writing is so sporadic I don't know that anyone would want to collab with me! I jump around scenes too much and get bored with stories and abandon them for long periods of time for collaborating to work for me, I think.
Have you ever considered writing a story or a sequel to one of your existing stories and then decided against it and were later glad you decided not to write it? Share the most ridiculous idea you came up with, but never wrote! LOL
Yes! I was going to write a third story about Nick and Ashleigh (after In Pieces and My Happy Ending) about Nick's relationship with his mom, and Ashleigh's mom dying and them coming to terms with the fact that their son died. Yeah.. I started it but then I decided I didn't want to write it so I deleted it. Too much death in that story lol
Uhh I was also going to have two more stories after The Best of Both Worlds where Nick and Dani break-up and have a bunch of drama, and then Dani goes out with Brian and Nick tries to win her back and there's a ton of drama... but again, decided not to write them. Because ridic. Although because of the way I tend to jump around I do have a random chapter from one of those stories written where Nick bitches Dani out for being indecisive... and then tries to sleep with her lol.
What is the best compliment you have ever received on a story?
This girl actually left a comment on Nick's Dirty Kicks recently and said she wanted to translate the story to put on her Spanish BSB fiction site (with credit to me, of course) that was pretty cool!
give us a random fact about something you've written that we might find surprising.
I got the idea for February Stars from the fact that I was doing data entry at work, and someone had that as part of their email address. I remember thinking it was pretty, and that I wanted to use it for something. So I decided to use it as a title for a one shot and built a story around it.
