THE WRITER - Strawberry Shortcake

Strawberry Shortcake, the pen name was created in 2003 when the first fiction was released on Winglin. Many of you may have already known that I'm a EG (Edison and Gillian) fiction writer.  As a writer, I live in my own mind world to explore drama and try to think beyond limits. My genre is probably dramatic romance. I like to create twists and turns in stories for the sake of keeping the readers interested. Maybe because I too have a lot of drama in my life, drama scenes come to me like waves, one after another. It's not difficult for me to write dramatic stories. Whereas, comedy, science fiction, mystery and other types of story is challenging for me. However, I do try to add in comic relieves for the purpose of the intensity arising in the scenes. Forensic Evidence, for example has many comic relieves. Without them, I think my readers would had all ran away by now. 

    I'm not an excellent writer. But I know my flaws and strengths. My strengths all lay in my brain and my flaw would be not being able to express my strengths to the fullest. But the good thing is that, I know how to work around my flaws. Because I'm not an excellent writer and have limited vocabulary, I chose to write my stories in dialogue form. This way, I'm able to still carry out the story that I want with limited vocabulary. Since I know my flaws, strengths and direction, I seldom need another person to tell me what I should do. This is the stubborn part of me. I would accept opinions but whether I make use of it is another story. I remember coming across a comment which suggested for me to get a review of my story from a certain site since this person said I would have gotten an excellent review. I looked at it for a while and thought to myself, "Do I really need this review?". The answer is no. Two reasons. I don't agree with the marking scheme and just simply, I don't need it. I know what I'm doing. I might be conceited on this point but that is my strength. My strength is knowing my flaws. If I can't even find where I went wrong in the story, I'm not a writer. I know I'm improving; from the very first Twisted Fate till now, I can really see improvements.  

    I'm an open-minded yet stubborn writer. I accept opinions and comments easily. I have received negative comments and constructive criticisms in the past. Not all comments are going to be positive and pleasant and that, you have to accept, as a writer. To be honest, I have never deleted a single comment, negative or positive. I mean if someone actually went out of their way to drop me a comment,  I would have to say that every one of them is worth reading. It can be horrible and the worst comment ever but I'll still keep it there. It may not be correct but certainly not wrong, if it's someone's opinion. Criticisms, I accept without a word. Personal judgment, I decline without every word I can use to defend myself. This is how I work. That is my moral. It will never change.

    Many asked me where I get all these crazy ideas from. Life experiences? Personal tragedy? Well honestly, I can't say that I'm completely detached to the stories because every direction of the story is through my own perspective. Parental Connection is probably the closest I can relate to it. Before this story, I've never written a story that is fully about myself. However, there might have been little bits and pieces of my experiences. Nothing much is really personal in those stories. Maybe, when I browse through certain parts, it'll remind about something in my life but it'll all eventually come back to the fact, that everyone is able to relate to it.    

    Writing is not a relaxing hobby because as a deep writer, my stories follow me everywhere. It became a commitment or a marriage. It's something I think about before I sleep and when I wake up. Since those are the times when your mind is off to another world. I take this hobby quite seriously which other people may find stupid. Why be so serious? Well, many people who are writers themselves may understand that writing a story is a long process, without determination and motivation, you can never pull through to the end. Being committed is a must.

    Writer's Block - I don't believe in that. I just think it's an excuse for someone to avoid writing a certain part of their story. It's like back in their mind, there's a part ahead which they want to write yet there's a part in front of them that they need to surpass. I do come across these situations many times but I know that if I just keep my mind on what I need to get done, in front of me, I can. 

    In terms of my writing technique, because again, I have limited vocabulary in my system, I chose to write in the from of a script with action directions. The odd times, I would write the character's thoughts in perspective. It's very difficult to write in perspective because I find it pretty much like acting where I need to develop the emotion and feeling to write in someone else's shoe. Even writing reaction dialogues, it should be thought from the character's perspective because everyone reacts differently to things. I didn't really get a hold of this technique until I came about writing Forensic Evidence which requires a lot of character contrast and development. (Further Discussion in the Forensic Evidence Commentary)

    Overall, my writings aren't the best but the thought is already at its fullest. There may not have been a large variety in the romance part of the stories but in terms of characteristics and plot, it's always new and fresh.

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