If I became a famous author:

About 3 years ago, a guy on YouTube.com, named Kaleb Nation (and yes, that is his real name) made a video about what he would do if he became a really famous author. Since first seeing the video over two years ago, I wondered myself what I would do. So, here are the things I would do if I became a really famous author like J.K. Rowling or Stephan King:

　

1.Travel the world. I’ve always wanted to do this. But not in that organized way that people usually do. I just wanna get up one day and think “I feel like going to Germany today.” That would be soooo fun!

2.Become a Disney Imagineer. Come on, you have to admit that it would be cool to work for Disney! I’d work with other writer, animators, and other people.

3.Own part of Disney World. Hey, if I have the money and I’m working there I might as well bye part if it (if I can) and be a part of the parade and get to ride all the fun rides.

4.Try to become friends with all my favorite authors and tag along with them on their book signings and stuff, because that just sounds cool to me.

5.Make an organization for people of all ages who love to read, write, draw or anything pertaining to the arts, where they can learn about the things they love.
　So, those are just 5 things I would do if I became a really famous author. What would you do?

Writer's Un-Blocked: Getting the Idea

Where do you get your inspiration? You wanna know where I get my ideas for writing? Simple: I steal it. Well, some of it…

Now, hold on. Before you go calling the cop on me, here is what I mean. I steal things to put in my books from everywhere and everyone. Bits of conversations, personality trait… physical features… like having large ears…

That’s not to say I’ve never had an original thought in my life, just that I believe that an author writes from his or her own personal understanding. If J. K. Rowling had never learned about witched and wizards, as in she was completely oblivious to that concept at all, we never would have had the HAPPY POTTER series.

I’ve heard people say that they don’t like to use “real” people for their writing, while I do. “Real” people are the kinds of characters I want. It’s more believable to me when I use certain traits and characteristic from my friends and family because they are the most “real” characters I know. And it’s those “Mary Sue” characters (for those of you who don’t know what a Mary Sue character is, it’s a character who is very common to others) for example Bella Swan, with her helpless, damsel in distress attitude and having Edward, a handsome superhuman, saving her all the time… it’s characters and events like that which keep us reading, because it those common characters and event with their own twists that makes the story real.

Stealing things from around you makes your writing more believable, because who and what is more real than the things and people you know?

Where do you get your inspiration?