w/ Kirja Aatami

Interview made by Kirja Aatami & Piia Katri Allaway, actual language is finnish.

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1) Hey, Piia! First of all, I have got this incredible necessary question. What’s your favorite song – at least at the moment?

Ehw. Why the hell is that such an incredible necessary question? Hah, no, I don’t have this ‘oh-my-god-it’s-the-best-ever’-feeling by listening to a song, but I guess I can say my Top 3 Songs are In Fear and Faith – “I know you know”, The Word Alive-  “I’m Sorry” and Avery PKWY ft. Joshua Paul – “Love Story”.

I can’t explain why, but all of these three songs so touch my heart. Well, the last not – in somehow – but I just love the song. My favorite line is by the way:

- And all the seas are falling over my head, washing me back to the beginning. I shouldn’t have failed to make a change within you. – I know you know.

2) On lots of Netpages you once was registered as Tearstained, what does this name mean, and how did came up for it?

Ehw, just don’t make me remind that! I think looks and sounds quite good sill, but I don’t want to use it any longer. It’s a part of my past yet. I came up with the idea due to an album of my former favorite Band, Charon.

3) How did you come up with writing? How much that does has a meaning in your live?

Hm, I came up with writing due to an idea of my Bestie. We heard a funny sentence in class and she wanted to write about it. I wrote 20 pages, my Bestie just one. We both were 11-year-olds, but that’s how I came up with writing.

Which meaning writing has got in my live? Hm, I guess a big one. I can escape from everything when I write, I guess that’s just it. As well it gives me a good feeling when people come up and ask me when I finish the next project.

4) What do you want to see in a good review of a reader?

In Fact I’m happy about every review I get, even those that aren’t longer than a line. But of course it’s way better to see: “Aha, this guy made his thoughts about what I wrote.”

I like the honest reviews – If I wrote shit, I want to hear that. If I did my job well – of course I want to hear that as well. I want to get critics, I want to get told: “This I good, but you could do this and that in this way…”

5) What would you like to check out with writing? Which genres, topics…?

I guess I’d like to try out writing from a woman’s point of view once. Oh and as well I’d give everything for writing a novel handling pirates and stuff. Pirates are – next to tortoises – my biggest passion! But I actually don’t dare yet.

6) To be honest: When  do you fail in writing?

Sometimes I just loose the storyline and write shit at all. I sometimes don’t write about any emotions and want to explain the reader in somehow that my person ain’t got any because of his /her past. I guess that’s shitty in somehow.

7) Is there a book or story which inspired/helped you while writing?

Yep, of course. As I wrote my first book I read John Ajvide Lindqvists Människohamn, and this book was just too inspiring. I didn’t take any of his words or stuff, but it was a big help. Yet I read same authors ‘ Pappersväggar ‘ and it’s absolutely same case.

8) There is a huge number of mainstream stories – to call it this way – and I’d like to say you’ve got some experience yet. What kind of stories would you dehort new writers?

Well, I’d say something like: “Shut the fuck up with Twilight-Like Vampires. They annoy. Ahm, please don’t make a couple out of a kid and a granny, don’t write about (homo)sexual Sex if you don’t have any idea how this is really going, and just don’t even think about writing stories with following content: BDSM, Death, Rapture etc., if you don’t even know how to spell it. To be honest – these three examples are the very worst for starters!

9) Writer’s Block. Do you have them? What to do against them?

That’s a quite annoying topic in my opinion. If I get one while I write a story with more than 50 pages I really can write it off. The story is dead then. To avoid writer’s Blocks I usually write more than one story same time, so I don’t get bored.

10) What do you like to read?

Hm, I don’t read that much myself. Usually just the Lindqivst Stuff, cause this man is amazing! (Man yah, I got all of his books. And more. For example Låt den rätte komma in I got in four languages. Yep, I’m crazy, but this man is awesome!)

11) What are your guilty pleasures?

Hm, do I have got something like that? Actually I don’t think so. The only thing I don’t want to say – actually – is, that I love Pokémon.