《✍ Home Sweet Home: A homely place for Author Interviews, reviews &Write up'✍》!!!!!!Interview with @royal888(Sarah Royal )!!!!!!!
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so this person as you know it , is the most(for me) helpful person on wattpad...
To share my personal experience, Sarah has always been really caring and helpful for my writing. No one has ever really cared what i did here , but she does and to be honest the world (or at least the virtual world) really needs people like her
And Sarah, yeh sure I will do my level best now to fulfill your fairy godmother wish !!
love ya !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
coming up next (just not extreme next there can be a update in between)(if nothing goes wrong)
is @Mk1120 !!!!
now lets enjoy our small talk!
I was a reader on Wattpad for two years before I posted my own books. I read most of the books in werewolf and vampire genre and after I was done, I just decided to write my own fantasy book about witches and warlocks called "Her Heart, His Obsession." So, I am not a writer by profession. I have a different ay job and write for fun. Accidentally writing became my hobby on Wattpad.
The story behind my username is very simple. When I was a reader and was only reading on Wattpad, I did not need a username. Users did not need to log into the app in order to read. When changes were brought in in 2013, that was when I suddenly could not read the normal way on the app and had to sign in. I looked at it as an insignificant action. I was a reader. I had no idea, I would stay on the app this long and had no idea there was a such thing as profiles, messaging etc, I was not happy to have to choose a log in. I just chose the first name that came to my mind that as to do with kings and queens. I then chose to have a number repeated and 888 came to mind. I had no idea that there were any such thing as social interactions on Wattpad. I just joined to read and later on I realised this is the name that people see when I vote or comment. So, it was an experience, discovering the social world of Wattpad when I signed in. before signing in, I had no idea.
I am very quiet. Not very outgoing. I am very safe and very conservative in taking any actions. My area of expertise is science so it can tell you I am quite safety conscious. I live a quiet and normal life. I just write as a way to release pressure of life in weekends and then it's back to reality of life for the 5 days a week. I do like books and movies. I love entertainment. I love sports.
I am very honest. Some people don't like it. I also don't like dishonest people. So, if I meet someone who likes people to lie to them, say to them they are amazing and never gave them any constructive criticism then we won't get along. I have learnt to keep my opinions hidden and only discuss with friends as I meet some people who don't like feedback. They just don't and Wattpad doesn't have many people who like to hear the truth. It's ironic when these outgoing people who post on their profiles, that yeah guys I am friendly, come chat to me, read my books and comment are the ones who mute anyone who tells them the truth. So yeah. My advice is don't assume people like honesty on Wattpad even if they imply to you that they do.
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By accident. I was using ibooks for a long time to read books and then when I searched free books on app store I came across Wattpad. That's why I joined. To read free books.
I explained this in first question :-)
I love family and love family values, I promote families in my books.
Also, I can't stand cheating in relationships. I can't get my head around how anyone can cheat on their partner or spouse. So, most my major characters are faithful to each other and don't betray each other. It's probably because I can't simply imagine such situation. I can't grasp and begin to understand how someone can have eyes for another when they have committed themselves fully to one soul in life. Don't get me wrong. I believe in love after divorce or breakups. I am talking about when someone is with their partner and while they are with them, the cheating happens.
I write general fiction and teen fiction books because I can imagine them well in my mind. I write this way because it's all personal experience and observation. A lot of the scenes in my books are inspired by real life events but not in terms of specific details. Many feelings and emotions are real and have happened in real life whether its experienced by me or observed by me.
I loved reading books always. But my love of writing can only be proven when I kept a diary years ago. I wrote my diary for years. I enjoyed descriptive writing essays in school. On Wattpad I had no plan to write. Only after I couldn't find any witches and warlock books that interested me I started to write my own book about magic. I loved magic at the time. I have read harry potter. It captured my imagination for sure.
I don't think I could change anything about my books. I think I always listened to feedback too. But maybe I wish I had acted on some feedback a bit earlier. My editing tasks are piling up and I wish I had started editing my work to tailor it to feedback by readers sooner.
But if I could change anything on Wattpad, I would not talk to anyone about anything but books. I do regret making friends who took friendship as a relationship. As crazy as it sounds sadly sometimes what you say can be taken out of context. I am not on Wattpad for social interaction and even on social media I am just there to get to know authors, read books and learn tips about writing. That is all. I really regret how I allowed some conversations to go beyond that. So, keeping interactions to minimum is something I would have done if I had to do it all over again because it did cause me a lot of upset and stress when I had disagreements.
I love JK Rowling. She stays true to who she is. I love her personality. On TV, I remember her making a cake in a documentary for her child's birthday. Here she was a billionaire baking a cake when she could pay thousands of pounds to buy cakes from outside. I think I also love how she talks openly about her struggles as a single parent who had to live on state benefits and had a tough life. She had help from her friend who gave her money to help her out while she was writing. She later bought a house for that person. that shows, some people are classy. Money can't corrupt and change certain people. Money doesn't buy class but also doesn't take always someone's class and coolness. I think it is important to be true to what we believe in and what we stand for no matter who we are and who we become.
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I write alone in a room in dim light or the dark. It's hard for me to focus when I am in a noisy room or in front of TV.
I just tell writers to keep writing. I know it's tough to get reads on Wattpad and sadly people get demotivated but reads comes over time. Every day I go through my follow list and do notice people who have unpublished books that I had in my reading list. I was soon to read their books but they gave up on it for some reason. Well, if I had given up on my first book I wouldn't have written for this long. My followers and reads are compiled over years. I still remember when I had zero reads, zero votes and zero comments. I had nothing. But back then I didn't know anything about social elements on Wattpad. I even didn't know you could vote and comment until someone voted. I was shocked. When I discovered it, I voted for others too? I only had one reader to begin with who commented and I think she was so encouraging that I wrote 180+ chapters for my first book even though I had no comments for some of my chapters. It's hard to motivate ourselves when there are no reads. But back then when I had no clue about reads, votes and comments, it was so easy. I didn't know about it so I didn't miss it. Now I know about reader numbers so I admit it now. if right now I see my read count for a certain book goes down I switch to writing another book. I just need an excuse to stop writing general fiction and lack of interest from readers would be an excuse to start a new genre. I have written sequel after sequel and I need to stop at some point. But having said all this I am more interested in advice from undiscovered and new authors. It is amazing how undiscovered writers keep going. But for anyone who is doubting their writing I say, there is always someone out there who loves your work. JK Rowling was rejected by so many publishing companies before Bloomsbury said yes to her. So obviously even when you write a master piece some critics would not like it. There is no book that would please everybody as we are all different.
I love listening to music. I love baking. I hate liars and dishonest people who turn a blind eye to injustice around them in any setting. My strength is speaking in public and my weakness is trusting people when I shouldn't. I am too trusting and can't recognise friend from foe sometimes. My dream is to be kind and nice. I love to make new friends and meet new people. I love to help people in any way I can.
Yes. Its because I want to get an ISBN for my books so no one plagarises them. I dont mind selling my books for free. Making money is not my intention if I ever publish. I have a different career to writing. But I don't want anyone to take credit for words I wrote. A few months ago, someone sadly published my book in their name. Every single word of my book, A Mob Boss's Family was published in kindle unlimited. The book has been taken down and the cheater is gone but it has made me determined to publish one day to dis-credit the cheater.
For me writing is a release from the hectic and horrible world I see around me. This world is filled with greed, discrimination, injustice and hate sadly. Ironically the first book I wrote was a dystopia and when I think of it, that world was not so bad. It was better than the world we currently live in.
I try my best. But sadly, when I get many messages and comments, I do fall behind in answering. I have a touch schedule outside Wattpad in real life and I am so tired in weekdays. The only time I have is weekend for writing and also family activities. So, I have little time on Wattpad. I would like to be able to answer to each comment and message but unfortunately, I am behind.
Believe it or not Sarah, you are one of the most engaging authors in know Wattpad. you are really the most awesome!
My family, friends and of course Wattpad readers who have faith in me and stay with my books.
I think for me at the moment it matters if a book is read by people who I follow. That's the method I find new books. To me, a book is a worth checking out if people I follow are currently engaged with it enough to vote and comment on it. So, to me, cover and blurb don't matter. Whether the book is recommended by people I follow matter more to me. I just go to newsfeed and look at if there is a book that someone I follow has been reading for chapters straight. I add it to my library. Of course, cover matters too. if cover shows scary stuff I don't add it. But blurb for me is not as important.
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Tiredness and being busy is my kryptonite in writing.
I use the same notion when I discuss with people the Oscars ceremony. I tell people look. To me, the Oscars are meaningless because I won't see those movies more than once or even once. I have tried. Just because a film wins an Oscar it does not mean that its entertaining and captivating. Same with books. Winning an award means in terms of literature its good but is it enjoyable to read? Maybe to some and maybe not to some. The biggest issue is that millions of books are present on Wattpad and only 100 gives or take won watts last year. So, it's very few people who win watts. I try not to think of watts much. For me when I look around, the book that has been read by me many times deserves a witty in my view. But we all have different views.
Violence and incorrect rating. Some mature authors rate their work PG13 when it has content I have never ever come across at all even in 18+ movies. So here we go. Gory scenes and inappropriate rating is a turn off.
My self esteem? I think my reader comments give me self esteem and also when I am able to reach my writing goals it does give me confience. I have been updating weekly without fail for two and a half years. My goal is 2000 words per week and every time I reach it, it gives me hope.
I love writing apps. I love Radish. I recommend everyone to research their apps before joining them. Just go to wattpad forums, social media etc,. and ask around about user experiences. Then based on your own research make up your mind. I really dont want to talk about radish because I dont want to come across as though I am telling people to join. I love the app personally. But some may not agree. We are all entitled to our opinions.
I would ask for updates on Artemisia
Oh man! That honestly made me cry, thanks a lot and sure I will grant your wish by the very upcoming month 😊
early morning and late night when I am in bed totally alone with no distractions is when I write best.
I can't write anything except fantasy, general fiction and teen fiction. My worst genre that I can't write to save my life is fanfiction even though I love fanfiction and its my dream to write a proper complete book in this genre.
Personally, I like to think I value education and studying above everything. I think priority of everyone should be to educate themselves either by continuing their education in college or if they don't go to college do continue learning by reading books. we all live to learn.
My inner drive comes from encouragement from family and friends.
Writing is a distraction from the difficult life we live called reality.
Its genius, amazing, inclusive, fair, ran smoothly by hard working selfless volunteers. It gives everyone a chance to have a go. I love how it brings the Wattpad community together.
I just happened to have inspiration to write a mob book as I was writing a fantasy book. the ideas were in mind so I started writing it. Inspiration for both books came suddenly. I wrote one chapter at a time and luckily, I could develop my ideas into a series. I am hoping to go back to fantasy. I just need an excuse to end the mob boss books because they go on for a while. I am not sure when I stop writing those books. Either I finish the series after I run out of ideas or when readers stop reading.
I am a fan of mob books on Wattpad. But before I read any mob books on Wattpad I saw the godfather movies. Ever since then I had some plot in my mind for a mob story. I think all mob boos and films are inspired by the movie godfather. If anyone says otherwise they are lying. If I hadn't seen the movie godfather I doubt I would have written any mob boss books.
I can't share too much because it would be spoiler.... But what I can share is how I choose names of characters. Mostly my character names come from baby name websites. I just scroll through A-Z of names until I find a name that fits the character I am writing about. However, the characters who are meant to be minor I don't search so hard for. I just go with the first name that comes to mind. I later on regret it though because then the character becomes big sometimes and I didn't choose the best name for them.
I don't really think about it much. I did discuss it with authors on social media but I don't think it matter much to me. My books are not ever going to be featured, it would never affect me so it doesn't matter what system is in place. authors who edit their books professionally are mostly affected. My books are just written for fun. I shouldn't think of serious stuff.... Having's aid that I wish Wattpad did listen to writer feedback more. Some writers are leaving Wattpad due to lack of support and plagiarism.
I would love to be in the middle of a werewolf book. I love to be a shifter. I am a twilight fan and team Jacob. I love the idea of being a wolf shifter. I would love to have a mate who would love me unconditionally too.
I would call Stephanie Mayer and would tell her please make belle end up with Jakub. I just think Jacob would have been happier with belle. I can't see her as a vampire.
I think if someone asked me who was your first love or first crush, I would melt down. I am very shy and private.
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