Today we are interacting with Lucy Pireel who finds herself perfectly balanced when asked if she is a reader or a writer. She has started liking to see herself as a writer lately but earlier she liked to be known more as a storyteller. She does not bind herself with a single or bunch of genres. Except YA, almost all genres fall into her kitty.
A very warm welcome to Lucy from all her readers and fans.
Please
share some of the best memories of your childhood
Being
outside with friends, playing, and jumping over muddy streams. I was very much
a boyish girl. Baking cakes with my Nana.
I've studied Law, but would have rather
studies Psychology, or Art.
What
career did you plan during your education days
It was planned I would become a lawyer, but
speaking in public isn't something I do well. :-)
What
is your biggest source of inspiration in life
Karma, be the best person you can be, and
first and foremost love yourself, acceptance of ones own self is what brings
out the best in a person. Is that inspiration? I don't know it is what keeps me
going and it is how I live my life.
People who feel if they can't have what they
feel they are entitled to blame another for their perceived misfortune. People
who judge without knowing what really goes on, or even worse judge without
caring about another person's turmoil or motivations.
If
you had to live a day of your life as one of the living or dead personality,
who would it be and why?
Hmmm, let me think on that one. ... Done!
:-) I would be me, with all my flaws and imperfections, I rather like me. Have
no desire to ever be someone else and have no 'heroes'.
What
is your favorite genre and why?
Well written books are my favourite genre.
Why? Because even in a genre I'm not a fan of (YA and dystopian) there are
books I really, really like, while in genres I'm particularly fond of, there
are books which are so poorly written they should be taken off the shelves and
reworked.
What
is the purpose of your writing?
The purpose of my writing? Shoot, Jaideep,
you do pose some pretty deep (yes, pun intended) questions. Purpose ... to get
the stories that fill my head out of there? To give others the pleasure of what
my imagination came up with? You know? I have never thought about that, I have
never contemplated about a purpose. I write, period (or full stop).
Well, there's Red Gone Bad, a collection of
twisted fairy tales, Heaven's Closed, a double dip of angels and demons, unless
they are ordinary people after all? Bound, an erotic, BDSM novella, a piece of
flash fiction in A Quick Bite of Flesh (traditionally published), and a sci-fi
dyptich wich featured as cover story on #3 of Isotropic Fiction.
What
are your forthcoming writings?
In the near future I will publish another
collection of short stories, this time in the line of horror, suspense, but
again with a fairy tale like message to each of them. Although these aren't
adaptations on existing fairy tales.
And then there is my full length novel which is in its final stages of editing.
And then there is my full length novel which is in its final stages of editing.
What
are your future plans?
Future plans? Carpe Diem! I live my life
like every day is a gift and cherish them all. Who knows tomorrow could be my
last. Accidents happen and nothing is predictable.
What
four top most things you take care of while writing a book?
Plot, continuity, SPaG, fun.
Oh, eeeh ... A tropical island on which just
me and a proper internet connection are. All food and drink will magically
appear upon my need and clean sheets will cover my bed each and every day. The
sun will shine every day and every night a mild rain will soak the earth to
sustain the lush forrest which covers the inland.
Your
origin of birth and other countries you have visited/ stayed. What best things
you liked in these countries around the globe?
I was born in Brazil and have lived in a lot
of places. I loved the US and Switzerland the most. The US because of the
immense space and the people and Switzerland because of the people, the
mountains and their cheeses. I luvs cheese!
