It's that time again!

For this interview, we want to emphasize the importance of our undiscovered voices within the community as well as on the platform. We all started out somewhere and we grew as writers and learned a few things from kind strangers and from personal experiences, but all of this has made us better artists.

So let's get this show on the road!

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: Science-Fantasy

: Superhero, Romance, Humor, Comic

: #action #adventure #alien #aliens #burrito #fantasy #humor #humour #lgbt #lgbtq #love #nonbinary #puns #quirky #romance #romcom #satire #sciencefantasy #sciencefiction #shapeshifter #superhero #supernatural #superpower #witty

Arin Adams doesn't exactly have the greatest superpower ever, but a series of accidental victories gets her thrown into a world of professional superheroes- and supervillains. Before she can even learn how to control her powers, she finds herself in the spotlight of the universe's top superhero team: The Ultimatum, obtains a superhero-hating girlfriend who is definitely going to learn her secret soon, and a crazy-rich arch nemesis who is out for her head.

Superheroeing might not be all it's cracked up to be.

Important note: This story is a novel-comic hybrid. It is filled with media not visible in offline reading. However, the story is still able to be understood without the media, if you prefer to read in offline. I recommend reading it with a white background on mobile. But you do you!

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Author of The Adventures of Red Electron, Heart of a Prince: A Cinderella Story, The UnTitled, and more!

Red Electron was actually a school assignment at first, back when I studied screenwriting in college. We had to pitch a new feature film concept every single week for 10 weeks straight and my teacher hated all of my ideas. All of them. In a rush of desperation and exhaustion, I came up with the idea for Red Electron in my Anthropology of Food class 45 minutes before I needed to pitch in Screenwriting. I'd just been at comic con, so superheroes were on my mind. I threw together the most bonkers concepts and characters I could think of, dumped on a massive spoonful of terrible puns and added my cynicisms and love of satire, and voila! The first concept of Red Electron was born. Plot twist: My teacher absolutely loved it and helped me develop it further. It wasn't until about four years later that I finally decided to write it as a comic-novel hybrid for Wattpad, and by then I'd come out as ace/pan and added the LGBTQA+ themes it has today.

As for the comic-book/multimedia aspect of it...well, let's just say I was bored while editing the rough draft during jury duty and way too ambitious for my own good.

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It's different for each project. I tend to research as I write. When I come to something I don't know, I study it until I figure it out. With my limited attention span, that works best for me. With The Adventures of Red Electron specifically, it had some scientific stuff, which I know I still got wrong–but hey! It's science-fiction/fantasy for a reason, right? I probably researched some of the finer details of how electricity works for a day or two before I started plotting, just so I know the boundaries I could work with and make it at least somewhat believable. However, I typically spend about a week to two weeks deeply plotting out an idea before I write it. That's where a lot of my prep time goes!

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I went looking for a platform like Wattpad about a year ago (almost exactly by the time this interview is out). I have a rather large YA fantasy project that isn't very 'traditionally marketable' due to a vast range of reasons, and I wanted to find a place I could have a little fun with it. I had huge plans with how to market it, and do a bunch of fun social media projects, videos, games, mysteries etc as I released the novel, but I needed a platform where I could upload the story piece by piece. Wattpad seemed to be exactly what I needed. So, I released what I believed to be a throw-away novel, The UnTitled, here to test the waters and see how much I connected with the community and gauge if Wattpad was a good place for me and this big project. Somewhere along the way I lost my path, and the love that The UnTitled got pushed me to focus more on fixing up that piece instead of this other project I had planned. Then Red Electron came along and the rest is history. Wattpad helped me grow these projects to new levels and for that reason I fell in love with the community here. I'd not be where I am without it, that's for sure and I plan to stick around and use it as a place for all my craziest ideas!

As for my best experiences, that one is easy: every moment with the writers I've met here. There are people who I am so close to now who I didn't even know a year ago, but it feels like they've been part of my life forever. They are the most supportive and talented writers I know, and I'm so thankful I joined Wattpad and it brought us together. I've learned so much from them and it's taken my writing to levels I didn't know I could reach. Winning contests and hitting read count goals have nothing on everlasting support from other writers you admire.

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My Great-Grandpa Gib, because I never got to meet him. I'm not someone who idolizes many people, but I've heard stories about my great-grandfather and how absurdly hilarious he was. I mostly write humor, and I'm almost certain my sense of humor came from him. I'd love to sit down and laugh with him and pick his brain for jokes, because I'm not even sure where I would be without my sense of humor. It's my favorite part of who I am, and it'd be cool to thank him for that.

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Video games! If Nintendo makes it, I buy it. That's just how it works. They own my soul and I approve of it. I also occasionally volunteer with animal rescues and try cooking extravagant meals that often fail and end in huge messes.

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Asexual, Pan-romantic, Non-Binary.

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I have several things going on right now. The UnTitled, my initial Wattpad baby, won #RevPit literally the day I am typing this. Which means that project is going into heavy professional developmental editing and hopeful querying in the next 8-weeks. I'm super pump'd for that! That also means a sequel may still be coming up soon. I've been teasing it forever, and I know some of my readers are probably getting angry with me.

I'm currently working hard on an expanded novel-version of my Open Novella Contest entry: Heart of a Prince. It will dive much deeper into the struggles of the non-binary Prince Kalei, which I, as a non-binary human, am excited to release.

I have a concept for a Red Electron sequel, which I promised myself I wouldn't do, but here we are. It's still in the early stages of development, but I think it's showing some promise. I plan on having some shorts and teasers for Red Electron in the coming months as well.

And then I still have that darn project I initially came here for. It requires just the right amount of free time to dedicate to it, so I'm waiting until it feels right.

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Oh my goodness. So many. was one of the first people I met on Wattpad who really inspired me. She's the kindest person ever and writes the most lovable goof-ball characters that bring a smile to your face when you are down. might be one of the most lovely and supportive people I know, and her stories put some darker twists in the fantasy genre--which I am a sucker for! We've all grown as a dynamic duo together in the past year and it's been amazing. Some of my other favorite LGBTQA+ writers are: , , and . They all write awesome LGBTQA+ romance and/or SFF fiction.

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Keep going. That's it. Just keep going. Writing is hard. I was terrible at it for a lot longer than I've been okay at it. It's always a shot in the dark, and you never know if you are doing it right. Doesn't matter. Keep writing. I promise if you don't give up, you're going to improve, you're going to learn, and you are going to make something amazing!

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I'd choose songs without lyrics, otherwise I think I'd get annoyed after a short time.

1) Breathe by Two Steps from Hell – it's a song that sounds like whatever emotion you need it to sound like. Great soundtrack for writing heavy scenes. I use it to dive deep into POV a lot.

2) A Hero Will Rise by Future World Music – I use this song any time I need to write something sad/emotional. As an objectively funny human person, I find it hard to write the sadder things. I need this song to stay in my life for that reason.

3) Paint It Black (the Westworld version) – I don't know...it's just pure epic lyricless music fun. I could probably listen to it all day and never stop daydreaming that I'm a cowboy in a saloon shootout. Who doesn't want that?

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Thank you so, so, so much for joining us for this lovely interview, ! We definitely enjoyed having you around and we can't wait to see more masterpieces coming from you in the future!

Warmest vibes,