The
first book I fell in love with:
Charlotte’s
Web by E.B White.
I
read it when I was around 11 year old. I was at awe on how the story was so
neatly structured. Of course, at that time I didn’t know anything about story
structure. But I could already appreciate how the characters were designed in
such ways that they all were interesting—even the less likeable ones; on how
the challenge was kept on escalating; and on how the ending was put so beautifully
yet heartbreaking. It was the most intricate story I came across at that time.
The
author that most heavily influenced my writing:
I
cannot name one. I think I took a little bit of this and that from a lot of
authors. But, I can tell that my fondness for writing series was influenced by
serial books I read when I was a child, like Enid Blyton’s books, and shojo manga from authors such as Yoko Shoji and Suzue Miuchi.
The
author (dead or alive) I'd most like to meet:
I would love to meet Yuval
Noah Harari over coffee, just to pick his brain. I was so fascinated with his
books and the way he composed his writings. On the side note, I also I wish I
could meet Suzue Miuchi who wrote The
Glass Mask from 1975 and has not finished the series until now. I read The Glass Mask when I was in highschool
in the 90’s. Now that I become an author myself, I feel it’s very devastating
to the readers to leave your story unfinished like that. I want to ask her:
why? Why she didn’t finish her story for so long? I’d like to offer her some
help to finish The Glass Mask in any
way I can.
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