Questions That Annoy Me as a Writer

My good friend, Shteen (her blog is talesoftheunpublished), posted a blog post about questions an author might get asked and how she feels about each of those questions.

Our answers are actually quite different! That's not a bad thing by any means, but if definitely makes me look at my answers and think, "I'm a bit of a wet blanket." that being said-- I don't care. I'm going to do what makes me most comfortable, and that includes my writing. I couldn't think of any other questions to put in this (Shteen hit most of them on the head). But if I think of any others I'll be sure to add them.


"Can you make me a character in your book?"
NO I will not write about you and your friends because I can't (or rather refuse) to write you in as a character that I feel would be inappropriate to manipulate. Basically: I don't want to write you out of character or possibly insult you or limit myself to how a character could react.

"What are you writing about?"
I actually hate this question because now I have to explain my weird ideas to you-- and my ideas are awesome, but trying to find a way to tell you about them in as little time as possible while still conveying their badassery is difficult for me. I feel like I usually answer with "It's kind of hard to explain." and I know that they aren't wanting a long answer. I guess I assume that a lot of people aren't genuinely interested and that they just want to start small talk.

"What do you want to do after college?"
"I want to write."
"That doesn't have a lot of calling."
I don't need to hear your bullcrap. I have been told by too many people the same damn thing, so what makes you think you telling me if going to change my mind? I realize that there isn't a 'calling' for it. But I'm gonna do something that makes me happy instead of something that makes me miserable. How about you support what I want to do instead of trying to pull me down?

"You should write a story about ___!"
No. No. No. No. Because I want to write what I want to write about. More than likely whatever anyone has given me is out of my range of interest. That being said-- I guess I'm still open to the ideas if someone wants to pitch them, but they shouldn't expect me to write it. Also, I feel a bit phony whenever I take ideas from someone else-- even if they are offering it up to me. I guess I just like to come up with my own things and not feel as though I'm stealing them.