The Reality Bender Author Interview Questionnaire
Your Author Bio:
(please delete this parenthetical section and type or copy-and-paste your bio here—12 pt. Times New Roman single-spaced and approximately 200 words max, please. A section is provided below the Questionnaire for your various links, which I will happily share, along with your Primary Author Photo.)
The Tough Questions, with Answers
1) Why do you write?
2) Tell us about your current or most recent writing project, and what you wish to accomplish with it.
3) In your mind, what is your greatest accomplishment?
4) In your mind, what is your biggest failure?
5) If you could be one fictional character—it can be anyone, modern or classic, movie, book, TV show, legend, myth, or even comics—who would you be, and why?
6) What is your ideal writing environment, and can/do you attain it, and if so, how?
7) What is your primary writing inspiration? It can be anything: people living or dead no matter their occupation, or places, concepts, groups, inanimate objects, etc.
8) You’re stranded on a deserted tropical island full of life-sustaining fish, game, and flora, and don’t know when or even if you’ll ever be rescued. You get to choose three people to be stranded with you, and it can be anyone, whether you know them or not. Who would those three people be, and why?
9) Where do you see yourself in 5 years? in 10?
10) You can speak briefly with any one dead person, and ask them one question. Who would that person be, and what would you ask them?
11) Share one weird dream you had with us, and what you learned, if anything, from it.
12) What advice do you have to share with other aspiring writers?
13) In your mind, what is the most rewarding thing about writing?
14) In your mind, what is the most frustrating thing about writing?
15) How do you respond to negative criticism, including bad book reviews?
16) Both members of a married couple are close and well-loved friends of yours, and you discover beyond doubt that one is cheating on the other. What, if anything, do you do? Does sex (gender) enter into your decision, and why?
17) Do you listen to music when you write, and if so, what are your favorite flavors to listen to?
18) You’re our lone ambassador, the one delegate chosen to represent all the people of the Earth. You must speak with an advanced alien species that wants to colonize our planet, and we have no idea yet whether their intentions are hostile or peaceful. What will you tell them?
19) What is the biggest distraction or impediment to your writing, and to completing your writing projects?
20) Does time and the world around you ever “disappear” when your muse is upon you and you’re “in the writing zone”? If so, describe the feeling.
21) How often do you edit, and when, and how many rounds of edits?
22) How do you research prospective literary agents or publishers for representation and publication of your works—i.e., what tools and resources?
23) If you’ve been traditionally published, describe the feeling you had when you received and accepted your first contract/ offer.
24) You have one paranormal or psychic superpower. What is it, and what will you do with it?
25) Are you superstitious about your writing habits? If so, what is/are that/those superstition(s)?
26) You have to commit a major crime to save the life of someone you love. Will you do it, and if so, how far will you go?
27) In your mind, what is the ultimate sin?
28) In your mind, what is the ultimate blessing?
29) Who is your favorite literary character that you’ve ever written/ created, and why?
30) You discover your best friend is lying to you about something important to you, and hurting you, themselves, others, or all of the above with that lie. What do you do about it?
31) You’re faced with a horde of desperate, hungry, potentially violent people in a world where the trucks and trains no longer deliver the goods. What do you do?
32) Why should people read your work?
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Author Website: (please type in or copy-and-paste your name here as an embedded hyperlink*, or type in your author website URL, also as an embedded hyperlink*)
Book Product Page Links: (please type in or copy-and-paste your published book Product Page links you wish to share as embedded hyperlinks* here)
Other Linkydinks: (see above)
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After you have completed the Questionnaire (italics and bold are fine, but use them sparingly: you’re a writer and your words should show the emphasis) and provided *embedded hyperlinks* to your web pages to which you wish me to provide links in my blog/ interview in the Links section at the bottom of the Questionnaire (see “How to Embed Hyperlinks Into Your Word Document” instructions at the bottom of my Request An Author Interview page if you do not know how), please rename this document with your name and the words “Author Interview with The Reality Bender” (i.e, “Jack Splat – Author Interview with The Reality Bender”) and send the renamed Word document to me as an attachment with the subject line “Author Interview Submission” along with your attached jpeg pix (no more than 6 total please) to [email protected]
Please do not send your completed submission to my Gmail address. My Spam filters will probably lose it in cyberspace if you do.
I look forward to posting your Interview on my blog, thanks for playing along, and happy writing!
(please delete this parenthetical section and type or copy-and-paste your bio here—12 pt. Times New Roman single-spaced and approximately 200 words max, please. A section is provided below the Questionnaire for your various links, which I will happily share, along with your Primary Author Photo.)
The Tough Questions, with Answers
1) Why do you write?
2) Tell us about your current or most recent writing project, and what you wish to accomplish with it.
3) In your mind, what is your greatest accomplishment?
4) In your mind, what is your biggest failure?
5) If you could be one fictional character—it can be anyone, modern or classic, movie, book, TV show, legend, myth, or even comics—who would you be, and why?
6) What is your ideal writing environment, and can/do you attain it, and if so, how?
7) What is your primary writing inspiration? It can be anything: people living or dead no matter their occupation, or places, concepts, groups, inanimate objects, etc.
8) You’re stranded on a deserted tropical island full of life-sustaining fish, game, and flora, and don’t know when or even if you’ll ever be rescued. You get to choose three people to be stranded with you, and it can be anyone, whether you know them or not. Who would those three people be, and why?
9) Where do you see yourself in 5 years? in 10?
10) You can speak briefly with any one dead person, and ask them one question. Who would that person be, and what would you ask them?
11) Share one weird dream you had with us, and what you learned, if anything, from it.
12) What advice do you have to share with other aspiring writers?
13) In your mind, what is the most rewarding thing about writing?
14) In your mind, what is the most frustrating thing about writing?
15) How do you respond to negative criticism, including bad book reviews?
16) Both members of a married couple are close and well-loved friends of yours, and you discover beyond doubt that one is cheating on the other. What, if anything, do you do? Does sex (gender) enter into your decision, and why?
17) Do you listen to music when you write, and if so, what are your favorite flavors to listen to?
18) You’re our lone ambassador, the one delegate chosen to represent all the people of the Earth. You must speak with an advanced alien species that wants to colonize our planet, and we have no idea yet whether their intentions are hostile or peaceful. What will you tell them?
19) What is the biggest distraction or impediment to your writing, and to completing your writing projects?
20) Does time and the world around you ever “disappear” when your muse is upon you and you’re “in the writing zone”? If so, describe the feeling.
21) How often do you edit, and when, and how many rounds of edits?
22) How do you research prospective literary agents or publishers for representation and publication of your works—i.e., what tools and resources?
23) If you’ve been traditionally published, describe the feeling you had when you received and accepted your first contract/ offer.
24) You have one paranormal or psychic superpower. What is it, and what will you do with it?
25) Are you superstitious about your writing habits? If so, what is/are that/those superstition(s)?
26) You have to commit a major crime to save the life of someone you love. Will you do it, and if so, how far will you go?
27) In your mind, what is the ultimate sin?
28) In your mind, what is the ultimate blessing?
29) Who is your favorite literary character that you’ve ever written/ created, and why?
30) You discover your best friend is lying to you about something important to you, and hurting you, themselves, others, or all of the above with that lie. What do you do about it?
31) You’re faced with a horde of desperate, hungry, potentially violent people in a world where the trucks and trains no longer deliver the goods. What do you do?
32) Why should people read your work?
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Author Website: (please type in or copy-and-paste your name here as an embedded hyperlink*, or type in your author website URL, also as an embedded hyperlink*)
Book Product Page Links: (please type in or copy-and-paste your published book Product Page links you wish to share as embedded hyperlinks* here)
Other Linkydinks: (see above)
***
After you have completed the Questionnaire (italics and bold are fine, but use them sparingly: you’re a writer and your words should show the emphasis) and provided *embedded hyperlinks* to your web pages to which you wish me to provide links in my blog/ interview in the Links section at the bottom of the Questionnaire (see “How to Embed Hyperlinks Into Your Word Document” instructions at the bottom of my Request An Author Interview page if you do not know how), please rename this document with your name and the words “Author Interview with The Reality Bender” (i.e, “Jack Splat – Author Interview with The Reality Bender”) and send the renamed Word document to me as an attachment with the subject line “Author Interview Submission” along with your attached jpeg pix (no more than 6 total please) to [email protected]
Please do not send your completed submission to my Gmail address. My Spam filters will probably lose it in cyberspace if you do.
I look forward to posting your Interview on my blog, thanks for playing along, and happy writing!
