Young Writers Society

Since I'm homeschooled, my English teacher would be my mom. So I don't know what I'd do. Probably just cry. For a long time. Then maybe I'd go live with a friend or something.

WWYD if every TV station in the world was playing the most annoying movie on Earth over and over and over without stopping, even for commercials, without any signs of letting up?

I'd kill the television set and lunge for the Dostoyevsky.


What would you do if your Dostoyevsky copies were no more, hmmm?

Hmm. I'd go find a copy of the cliff's notes for "Crime and Punishment" just to see how it ends, 'cause I'm not reading it now. XD

A thundercloud hangs above your head. What do you do?

Hmm. Irrigate the desert?

...Er, actually, probably find a ditch to hide from the lightening.


What would you do if a giant lava monster asked you for a kazoo as a present for his [its?] nephew's 9th birthday?

I would wake up, try very hard to remember everything I ate the day before, and resolve never to eat those things ever again.


What would you do if someone did something really, really awful specifically because of something that you'd written, that got published?

I would Ignore them, it's just one person.
or if i got a number of those awful things i would reply to them to tell me what is specifically annoying them, then i would do my best to fix it.

If you had a choice of writing a famous series of books or have a large house with lots of cool cars which would you pick?

( i ask this question to see if you get pleasure from writing or just write to get rich)

Definately writing a famous series of books. I'd like the satisfaction of knowing that people enjoy reading my stuff. Plus you can get rich off having a good series of books. Look at JK Rowling she is rich that the Queen!

What would you do if you found that time had stood still?

I'd wonder what the time was at the moment, and laugh at how stupid I was to realise that the sun wasn't moving at all.

WWYD if you found out that you were living in the world of your latest novel, and that it was ending up that it was autobiographical.

Well I should like to die the beautiful and spiritually uplifting and noble death (so says the optimist who wrote it) I have prepared for my character, and as the initial stages of depression he has experienced are based more or less informally on my own, I am fully prepared for it.




How would you feel if you had awoken one day only to realize, with alarming bemusity, that you had become a celestial sphere (though a sentient one)? (No, this question was not inspired by L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle In Time'... But that's the reverse anyway).

I get the impression that I would feel horrifically, overwhelmingly bored. Not much a celestial sphere can do, you know? No opposable thumbs. ^_^



What would you do if you were suddenly snapped forward in time by a couple hundred years in time and found yourself stranded in the middle of a high-speed thoroughfare for flying cars?

The first thing that came to my mind: shout "Cool!" and then go shopping XD but actually, I think I would first go and fine a newspaper.

What would you do if your cat started talking to you?

In all honesty? Stare stupidly for a few moments. Pick him up and hug him, probably. Tell him I love him. Wait for him to reply in exasperation, "Yes, I love you, too, now get off me." Because I am oh so original, and not at all obsessive about the animals under my care... and when I was through hugging him, I'd call up the nearest psych ward and inquire about schizophrenia...



What would you do if you found yourself in the world of a 70's concept album?

I would wonder why there were flowers growing everywhere and why marijuana fumes were clouding my vision. Once I realized what had happened, I would go to sleep and wake up in about 30 years, because that kind of thing is completely possible in 70's-concept-land.


What would you do if a homicidal psycho came into your classroom at school and started shooting?

Fall down and pretend to be dead so he wouldn't shoot me.



What would you do if a wolf came at you?

Go for its throat-the weak point on a wolf- with my knife.

Incidentally, one of my neighbors was attacked by a Canadian Timber Wolf 3 weeks ago. Scary, huh? That's what I get for living in Idaho.

What would you do if you found out you had magical powers and no-one else knew?