What is the greatest joy of writing fiction for you?
Writing fiction is just like revealing the unspoken me, the joy of speaking to the world in silence. It gives me space to change something I need to change in a way reality can't destroy. It's like breaking free, once you write words, it's all your honesty and a better world you wish to build for anyone, to go anywhere in the story, to feel many different colorful emotions, and grow your empathy like you're walking in someone else's shoes. It's like being many persons at the same time, feeling their deep-seated pain, and being called to change their reality by a power of a pen and imagination. Writing fiction is like a beauty of inspiration that starts from the author's honest imagination to motivate, to change people's facts by telling a lie that's never a lie.
Can you tell more about your own life story and how does it speak behind your first book?
There's nothing so special exactly, I'm just an ordinary girl trying to change her destiny.
I've taken my bachelor's degree in architecture, but after graduating, I chose to chase my passion being a fiction writer instead, because that's the best thing my heart can tell, that's something I most enjoy doing, and it's always my dream to change people's life by what I write. People keep asking why I left the degree I've obtained and chose to write while—you know—it's known that almost no one can make a good living by writing. But all I know is sometimes, it's funny how life's steering wheel has taken you, and the only thing that survives me until now is my heart can't be wrong. no matter how corny, I know I have the right to be happy and I'm too precious to live someone else's life.
The end of the story, that's what inspires me most in choosing my first book theme. I want to tell the whole world that maybe you're just like me—maybe your architecture and mine are bigger than a building, it's about our home, a place where our hearts are set.
And—ya—why streetlit? It's because being raised among urban artists such as DJs, rappers, street dancers, and graffiti artists also has drowned me deep in thought, that street attitude is not always about derogatory terms, curses, clubs, drugs, sex, and violence. Take a closer look behind such life and you'll find wonderful humans too, for behind the turntable's vinyl they scratch, the microphones and harsh rhymes they spit, the checkerboard mat where their sneakers dance, or even the city alley wall they bomb, they keep something inside, that these "kids", have rights to dream too.
