*sings around horribly saying no capes, no capes!*

After a long hiatus, me the awesome is back with a really overdue interview of the coolest person on wattpad!!

If you r wondering why I was gone you can gladly blame my hell *coughs* I mean my school and teachers ;)

so cool that she is just @joecool123 !!!!!

huge round of applause for her please!!! *politely claps*

who also likes to go by the alter ego .. Lizzie !

we were very lucky to have met the cool lizzie , hopefully we'll continue to do so:)

hope you enjoy it

Hey! I'm Lizzie / joecool123 and I'm from Massachusetts. Fun fact: Mass is the only state in America that calls a milkshake a "frappe." So if you visit Boston ever and you say milkshake instead of frappe, they will just give you milk with chocolate sauce squirted into it and zero scoops of ice cream. RL advice here.

I'm one of those people who acts a little differently depending on the people I'm with (are we all like that?) But mostly I always like to be doing something, I'm very energetic, and I love to be entertained. (That's why I always ask people on wattpad for jokes!)

The first thing I remember writing was a short story (like 5 pages – short!) about "Super Puppy" when I was seven. Super Puppy could fly and her bark had healing powers and that's pretty much as far as I got.

I'm still figuring out what makes me unique, but the more I notice things about other people, the more I'm convinced that we all share traits and there are pieces of everyone we've met inside ourselves. I know that I have an overactive imagination and I try really hard at most of the things that I do. I love to connect with other people who are like that.

I've been reading quotes about writing recently, and so many authors all say he same thing: writers write because they have to. That's definitely true for me: I love imagining new scenarios and exploring different worlds and getting my thoughts out on paper is legitimately fun for me. I started on Wattpad because one of my friends was obsessed with Harry Potter fanfiction (I know, that was a thing forever ago) and I thought to myself, wow, I could write this. I never actually wrote Harry Potter fan fiction, but I did get pretty invested in the stories on Wattpad.

Absolutely. Having other people actually want to read my writing is one of the best things that's ever happened to me. I would love to continue pursuing that.

That being said, I actually already have been published in real life. I'm part of the Wattpad Imagines book series and I'm currently querying publishers to see if "No Capes can" make it into your hands.

Writing means different things to me depending on the day. Writing "The Bro Code" to me meant writing about a high school experience and how societal rules are pretty funny and shouldn't stop people from doing what they want. Writing "No Capes" meant writing about how people can change and how people can surprise you, but most of all how you can surprise yourself. No Capes took a long time for me to write and I changed a lot through that time, so the messages I wrote were very personal. I'm still creating the concepts for "Infamous," but so far writing this book is about getting back in the writing game and figuring out what I want my next steps in life to be. I think those are also going to be major themes of the book.

I think I vote for stories more than I comment on them. I'll vote for a story if I really liked it and want to keep reading it. I usually only comment on stories if people ask me to give them feedback.

Wow you guys are really trying to get to know me haha.

Hobbies: writing, ultimate Frisbee, watching movies, going on hikes.

Favorites: the color yellow, moosetracks ice cream, giraffes, one direction, and summer.

Strengths: writing, problem-solving, color-coordinating, finishing the last piece of pizza.

Weaknesses: I have a major sweet-tooth.

So many questions haha. My username (joecool123) is from the Snoopy character Joecool, who is a pretty cool dawg. I aspire to be a pretty cool dawg so there's that.

I believe in ghosts! Not like the casper kind, but the idea that something from the past can haunt you. I believe in the possibility of fantastic creatures and that the best cure for anything is some good ol sunshine and laughing so hard you start crying.

I love movies. I would actually love to be a professional screenwriter, so I'm working on a few scripts.

I hate poetry. Don't get me wrong, there is something beautifully poetic (ha!) in how people can write it but I get more frustrated reading it than anything else. I'd rather do almost anything else than try to write it.

I would rather be a worried genius. I think joy is overrated. Yes, it feels nice, yes, it's fun, but I think people who can feel more than that and can generate ideas upon ideas upon ideas get way more out of life. Especially as artists.

Turn ons: funny, down-to-earth, genuinely nice

Turn offs: Being a jerk, people who whine a lot, people who brag a lot. (Pretty simple haha)

Have you seen Frankenstein? (Just kidding haha I don't look like that. Not quite.)

I'm blonde, I'm almost always wearing something yellow (50% of my wardrobe) and I can't dance for anything.

so we should be expecting a blonde girl in yellow clothes who is smiling ???

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I gotta say I always feel like an immensely proud writer when I read everyone's comments on my stories. It seems like you all get different things out of them and that's truly amazing to me.

Descriptions are great if they stand out. I don't think a straight summary of the story makes a good description. Quotes from the story help make it interesting. So could a question or an 'imagine if...' scenario. Covers matter less than a story description. I think the cover matters to the point that it gets someone to click on the story description, but the description gets someone to actually read the story.

For me to read a book there needs to be a very captivating first page. One of the nice things about wattpad is that it has so many stories, but that also means if I'm not interested in one story I started, another is just a click away. If a story draws me in on the first sentence, then keeps me interested through the first chapter then I'm like YESSSS and I'll keep going. I get really excited about the stories I like.

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I'd probably kill whoever was annoying me the most at the moment (lol) and I'd want to bring in Elizabeth Bennet because she is my favorite fictional character. She has so many dimensions and has so many strengths that I admire. It would be amazing to meet her.

I write in journals often with just a pen, but those are usually just thoughts or personal rants. When I write stories it's always on the computer. I think I prefer this method because it is much faster and I can type almost as fast as I can think. I usually write in silence because I can think better with silence, but if I listen to music it will be the same song on repeat for a very long time.

Yes there are some things in my books that I pull from my life that a few people would catch. Some of the characters' catch-phrases or whatever are things my friends and family say. I usually outline my books into chapters and general plot points, but I also add a lot into each chapter that I haven't previously thought of. That makes it much easier to write but also leaves room to be creative.

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Yes, writer's block is the worst. I usually get it if I feel like I have a million other things to do, which is often needless to say. But it's possible to work through! Hahaha which one would you want to date? Probably TV. Good Will Hunting, Parks and Rec, "Fairy tales are more than true. Not because they tell you dragons exist, but because the dragons can be beaten." Yellow. Pizza. Big fan of pants. Love watches. Zac Efron. Blake Lively. The Joker, Batman, cheesecake, Ultimate Frisbee, psychology, cat, London, Jk Rowling.

ink anyone can be a writer. Just write. It's that simple.

why is he so pretty ? did you like it i mean the interview of course..

time for mindless and selfish self promotion

please check out Artemisia

help out a girl please ?!

for cute little puppies ???

with pretty eyes ?

do let me know who i should go after next. ...:)