Interview Questions 001

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Lightening Round Questions

1	A day at the beach or an hour at a bookstore?
2	Are you a rose or a thorn most of the time?
3	Are you left or right handed?
4	Beef, seafood or surf AND turf?
5	Bet it all on black or red?
6	Bike or car?
7	Black coffee, coffee with cream, or coffee with cream and sugar?
8	Boxers or briefs?
9	Call or text?
10	Cat person, dog person or 'other'?
11	Coffee or Tea?
12	Coke or Pepsi?
13	compost or fertiliser?
14	Dark Chocolate or Milk Chocolate?
15	Day or night?
16	Do you bring sexy back?
17	Do you ever do character creation while people watching from a location outside your home/office?
18	Do you follow your imagination or question it, Follow or Question?
19	Favorite number between 60 and 100, go!
20	Favorite snack or food to eat while writing
21	Favourite City
22	Flowers or chocolate?
23	French toast, pancakes, or waffles?
24	Glitter or camouflage?
25	Hathor or Isis?
26	If you could dye your hair any color, what color would it be?
27	Keep the possessive apostrophe?
28	Ken or Barbie?
29	Kindle or Nook?
30	Lipstick or lip gloss?
31	Lover or a fighter?
32	MacGyver or Sherlock Holmes?
33	Netflix or cable?
34	Ocean or Lake?
35	Of the seven deadly sins, which is the worst?
36	Pen name or real name?
37	Pick your poison: cover bands, B-movies, or You Tube parodies.
38	Pickles: sweet or dill?
39	Prefer PC or Apple computers?
40	Pulled pork or jerked chicken?
41	Red or white?
42	Romance or horror?
43	Ruled by logic or emotion?
44	Sasquatch or Loch Ness Monster?
45	Scorching sun or Biting snow?
46	Shower or bath?
47	Socks when you sleep, yes or no?
48	Steak: rare, medium, or well-done?
49	The zombie apocalypse is coming - are you prepared?
50	Vampires or Werewolves?
51	What are the two most important qualities in an antagonist?
52	What are you wearing? (No, seriously - what do you wear when you write?)
53	What character best describes you?
54	What food would you eat off your lovers body?
55	What genre have you tried to write but found yourself unable to pull off?
56	What is your favourite word?
57	What's the name of the space between your thumb and fingers?
58	What's your favorite act at the circus?
59	What's your OTP out of all your favorite fandoms?
60	Which is the better way to enjoy a story, being the writer or the reader?
61	Which is worse when talking to a person? Bad breath or body odor?
62	Which shoe do you put on first? Left or Right?
63	Which writer are you most envious of?
64	Your story - two characters mirroring you?

Serious Questions

1	Authors often put themselves into their characters. Which of your characters is most like you and why?
2	Can you give more details on what you draw inspiration from when writing.
3	Can you recall a particular scene that was painful or traumatic for you to write?
4	Do you base any characters on real-life people that you know?
5	Do you believe an author can be psychoanalyzed from the content of their first novel?
6	Do you ever base chatacters on real people in your own life?
7	Do you find more inspiration from reading other books or watching TV/movies?
8	Do you have a muse?
9	Do you have a structured schedule for writing?
10	Do you like to read the same genre that you write?
11	Do you listen to music when you write? If so, what?
12	Do you plan or pants it?
13	Do you stick to one genre or skip around? Why?
14	Do you talk about your WIP with anyone while writing or do you keep it completely secret until done?
15	Do you think your creativity is down to the number of books you have read as the publishing companies would say or do you think it is a power that comes from within?
16	Do you try to make you antagonists likeable?
17	Do you use an editor? If so, what tips do you have in finding one that works for you?
18	Give me two ways that you use to make your characters likeable to the reader.
19	Has anything you've dreamed found its way into your book?
20	Have you ever read a book that was so amazing it made you question yourself as a writer?
21	How did you family support your story becoming a book?
22	How did you research your book character's career?
23	How do you come up with ways to create tension between your characters?
24	How do you decide when and whether to kill off a character?
25	How do you or would you react to negative reviews and why?
26	How do you use dialog in your writing?
27	How has technology hurt or helped you as an author?
28	How have you improved as a writer since you first began? What would you attribute your growth to?
29	How old were you when you first wrote a story?
30	If you could choose one place to do your writing for the rest of your life, where would you choose and why?
31	If you could go back in time and change a decision you made (knowing this may change everything after that decision) would you still do it?
32	If you could meet one dead author, who would it be and why?
33	If you had to describe your writing style and books in a single sentence what would it be?
34	If you weren't an author, what would you be?
35	Name one of your role models. What do you respect most about this person?
36	Name one thing you have to have before you can sit down at right?
37	No one likes a poor review of their book. How do you deal with a low rating review?
38	was there only ever one ending for book? or did you have a few to choose from?
39	What are you able to escape from when you write? Have you ever used a specific character in a fiction novel to free yourself from a difficult past hurt?
40	What do you do when an idea for a story comes to you and you're not in a position to write it down?
41	What impact do you envision your book(s) having on your reader?
42	What is the most effective way you've found to break through writer's block?
43	What is your favorite way to create tension between characters?
44	What is your most successful book promotion tip?
45	What non-writing-related thing have you done or learned that shows up in your work?
46	What or who encouraged you to start writing?
47	What sort of topics do you wish more fiction authors had the gall to explore?
48	What suggestions do you have for selecting a good editor?
49	What surprised you about the whole "self publishing" process?
50	What time of day do you like best for writing?
51	What was your favorite book this week?
52	What's the hardest part of writing for you? The easiest?
53	What's the most "out of the blue" plot twist you've ever read?
54	What's the most effective marketing tool you've used?
55	What's your best advice for aspiring authors?
56	What's your favorite book?
57	What's your favorite program to write in? (Scrivener, Word, etc.) Or do you prefer pen and paper?
58	When and how did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
59	When is your favorite time of day to write?
60	When your plot is seriously tangled, what helps you get it untangled?
61	Where do you go for inspiration when you're stuck?
62	Who are your favorite authors and how does your writing style compare to theirs?
63	Who has influenced your writing the most?
64	Who is your favorite character in your latest book?
65	Why do you write in your chosen genre?
66	Would you ever write a book with a taboo or controversial subject matter that you knew would offend some of your readers?

Wacky Questions

1	Can you touch your nose with your tongue? Please check before answering.
2	Do the voices in your head talk all the time or do they go to sleep when you do?
3	Do you ever write in the nude?
4	Do you have a particular preference on types of toilet paper?
5	Do you put forth the effort to make up the stories or do they just randomly appear in your mind in totality?
6	Everyone has a manuscript in their desk drawer that they would never publish. What's yours?
7	Have you ever farted in public and blamed it on someone else nearby?
8	How do you come up with sex scenes and do you practice sex acts before your final draft of said scene?
9	How do you inject romance into your life?
10	How many people have you killed (in your fiction)?
11	How many voices are in your head as you're writing a scene?
12	How would you describe the sound of a whisper?
13	If animals and humans could mate (physically AND legally!), what animal would you like to mate with?
14	If it rained something other than water, what would you want it to be and why?
15	If pot was legal would you let your kids smoke it?
16	If you could be a dessert, what dessert would you be and who would eat you?
17	If you could commit any crime without being punished, what would you do?
18	If you could go anywhere in the world to shop, where would it be and what would you shop for?
19	If you could have a cartoon character come alive for one hour, who would it be, and why?
20	If you could have dinner with your protagonist, where would you go and what would you discuss?
21	If you could only wear one outfit the rest of your life, what would it be and why?
22	If you could pick one person (real or fictional) to be your teacher, who would it be? Why?
23	If you found yourself back in the 80s, what piece of clothing would you rock?
24	If you had to coauthor a book with any celebrity, who would it be and why?
25	If you were a brand, which one would you be and why?
26	If you were a food item from a barbecue, what would you be and why?
27	If you were a jungle animal, which one would you be and why?
28	If you were a pudding what would you be?
29	If you were invisible, what is the first thing you'd do?
30	If you were stranded on a desert island, what fictional character would you call?
31	If you were stuck on a deserted island with a character from your latest book, who would you want to be with and why?
32	If you were trapped on a desert island like Tom Hanks in "Castaway," what's the one thing you'd want to have with you?
33	If your antagonist was a disease, which one would s/he be and why?
34	If your life was a movie, which would it be and why?
35	If your main character was a dessert, what would s/he be and why?
36	If your main character was a vacation destination, where would s/he be and why?
37	If your villain was a circus act, which one would s/he be and why?
38	In a battle of wits between Bugs Bunny and The Roadrunner, who wins?
39	Share one item from your wardrobe that you wish you never bought :)
40	Tortured a character, did you? Does that make you a bully?
41	What book have you faked or pretended to read and why?
42	What candy bar would describe your book?
43	What color crayon should be banned from the box?
44	What is your essential writing attire?
45	What is your favorite food to eat while writting
46	What material do you read when you have to go #2? lol
47	What was the last adult beverage you had?
48	What would YOU do for a Klondike bar?
49	What's the craziest thing you've ever drawn inspiration from?
50	What's the most inventive way you've ever used duct tape?
51	What's the strangest place you ever "gone potty?
52	What's the strangest place you've found inspiration
53	Where is the strangest place you've ever read a book?
54	Which of your characters would you dress as for Halloween?
55	Which two cartoon characters would you like to watch have sex?
56	Who is you favorite cartoon villain?
57	Why is a raven like a writing desk?
58	Would you ever agree to be abducted by extraterrestrial aliens?
59	Would you rather be stuck up in a space station for the rest of your life, or in a submarine under water?
60	Would you rather write during a snowstorm or a thunderstorm?
61	You are stuck on an island where you can either fight off a bear for domination of the land, defeat a shark in order to swim to safety, or out maneuver a pterodactyl so you can fly away. Which do you choose?
62	You walk into a bank. An elephant is behind the counter. 30 words or less, tell me the story.
63	You're about to be executed for a crime you didn't commit. What do you want as your last meal?
64	You're having an intimate dinner party, just you and five individuals (from any time in history, fictional or real). Who's at your table and what are you eating?
65	You're writing a story about your family and it becomes clear that someone needs to be killed off to make the story flow. Who is it and why?
66	You've been handed the mic to sing at America's Got Talent (or Britain)... what song do you sing?