Interviews With The Authors

Interviews With The Authors 8 - Candle_Ice

Its time to welcome our 8th visitor..

Candle_Ice!!

Candle_Ice is the author of Her Royal Pen Pal, Falling For Mr Wrong and When Jealousy Comes Calling..Here is her interview

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1) What’s the story behind your username? How did you come up with it? Was it sudden or thought about? ~Candle Ice came from my favourite teen book of all time: ‘Flipped’ by Wendelin Van Draanen. My Bff and I always made up code names for guys we liked, and the majority of our code names came from that book. Candle Ice was the code name for the guy I liked, and I used to write it EVERYWHERE. It was my screen name, my passwords [not anymore =)] my iPod’s name, everything I named Candle Ice... so even after I stopped liking him, the name ‘Candle Ice’ was too much a part of me for me to let it go, as a result, whenever I’m asked for a screen name, it’s always that

2) How old were you when you first started writing? ~ I was about 11 or 12, the summer before I started high school, when I actually attempted a story. Before that it was just writing plots compositions whenever I was bored.   

3) What was the first book you can remember writing? ~ “Yesterday’s Dream for Tomorrow’s Fortune” It was about two brothers who found a treasure map, and decided to follow it and they discovered the city of El Dorado. The locals who guarded the city, were bad guys and robbers, and had tried to kill them, but something about a Dragon and a Genie who only granted one wish, were able to save them. Sounds corny, I know… but I was 11. =]

4) Where did the idea for ‘Her Royal Pen Pal’ come from? ~ Honestly, from reading too much fairy tales. I love reading, and I’m a hopeless romantic, but I never really liked the idea of a Damsel in Distress. My favourite tale is Cinderella, but my favourite princess is Mulan, because she was the one who rescued her prince charming.  I always thought ‘Why can’t the princess be an equal to the prince and save herself, and not wait on him to save her? So it’s kind of like my modern day version of a fairy tale, incorporating the use of the World Wide Web, and without the whole she’s a damsel in distress theme.  

5) How did you choose your characters names? Was it random or do they mean something? ~ Total randomness. Okay, this is a kinda freakishly weird thing I do: But I write down random names in my note books. I have note books filled with plot lines, and general outlines of stories, and at the back are a bunch of names I have written, so whenever I’m ready to develop a story, I just choose one. If I hear a name or see a movie or read a book and find a name I think sounds good, I write it down for future reference. I usually go for unusual names, or exotic names, (mostly from Epic movies like ‘Troy’ ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ etc) and play around with it to come up with variations, and then pair it with a good last name. I like it when names sound good together.

6) What inspired you to start writing? ~ I really can’t say, exactly. I just had a lot of ideas in my head, and one day I just started writing it down and developed them.

7) How does writing make you feel? Is it just something you do for fun or is it something else? ~ Happy! … The feeling I get when I write is one I can’t express. It’s a hobby of mine, and I just like writing. Period

8) How did you discover Wattpad, Do you remember? ~ A friend told me about it. She said it had cool stories, and I should check it out. I did, and well, the rest is history…

9) What do you enjoy the most about writing? ~ The fact that I control what happens. Writing is a way I can create my own world. Everyone is how I want them; they go according to my plan. The power I yield over them [even though it’s in my head] is intoxicating. Nothing in real life is certain, nor can it be predicted. But when I write, I control the destiny and fate of my characters. I can plot revenge and execute it in style, have a surprise go as planned, have a happy ending, or a sad one if I feel it. It’s fun, to escape into my own creations, and have everything run as I want it.  =]