You might know Totallyy from chat or *coughs* his very colorful gallery pictures, but today's blog is all about his author side! Read on to learn what Ashi found out motivates one of GA's newer authors.

Interviewer: Ashi

Totallyy is one of my favorite authors on GA. His writing is concise, and each of his word delivers a lot of punch than its initial impression. Some use of words are very poetic, and may require some deeper work on readers' part, but a couple read-throughs will pay off. I certainly feel I could connect with his writing. I hope you guys will, too.

So here are some of the questions I asked of my favorite author.

What inspired you to write?

I started writing because I didn't like how ugly my feelings were and I wanted to make them into something beautiful.

Hmmm.... Interesting. Ugly feelings.... Could you elaborate on that?

I struggled with a lot of my emotions when I was a teen. I was sad a lot, and I didn't like that it always manifested so negatively. Writing helped me focus on something else other than how horrible I felt about myself.

Feelings I Don't Know How to Say Otherwise, when you wrote that, what was on your mind?

Basically, the title expresses the pieces exactly. I was listening to someone talking and it suddenly hit me: this overwhelming wave of emotional fluctuations. Writing has been my coping mechanism for a real long time, so I channeled those feelings into words. So the piece is just that, me, coping.

As a reader, I find your writing style very lyrical and raw on emotion.

Hahaha. That's the way I usually am.

What/who was your inspiration of that style, if there is any?

Honestly, people tell me my style is descriptive but that's just the way my emotions translate most wholly. A lot of fiction like to describe things, and places and people and those are really important. But I personally enjoy describing feelings more, the noise inside your body, instead of of the details outside. I find [them] more interesting, more universal.

Interesting. On that vein, would you consider yourself more of an introspective person or do you seek experience outside of yourself?

I'm usually introspective. I often dwell inside my mind.

Totallyy's works can be found on GA. Please check his works out!

Thank you Ashi and Totallyy for coming on today's blog!!