1)	Where did the idea come from? Was it just a quickly-decided thought or one of those aging thoughts?
2) Were do you mainly draw inspiration from?
3) Do you have any tips for wannabe writers out their?
4) Do you ever want to give up because your becoming bored of writing a bit you don't to write?
5) How long to you wish to carry the series on?

Sure! I'd be glad to do an interview.

1) The original Torn Identities actually started as a webpage, with the reader as the main character. I wanted it to be sort of like one of those "Choose Your Own Ending" books, only on the Internet. Unfortunately, I never got farther than Matoro's entrance into the story, where, in the Epic, he takes Torosus to Ko-Koro. I realized that as a webpage, it would take a lot more work than I thought.

Then I discovered BZP, and its Epics forum. I realized that it would be a lot easier to write the story more traditionally, so I started it and never looked back at the webpage.

The ideas for Torn Identities were basically just stream of consciousness--wherever I felt like the story should go, I went with it. That's part of why I think Torn Identities is the least well-written of the three; I barely had any idea where I was going.

Torn Identities II: Stones of Malice, though, had a lot planning before I started it. I had just finished a non-Bionicle story in the same way as the original TI, and I was beginning to realize that having a plan beforehand would definitely make the writing easier. I took one of the plot points from the first TI and used it as the driving force for the second one.

2) I draw inspiration from a lot of things. Early on, most of my inspiration/influence came from the Animorphs series by K. A. Applegate. Her stories taught me how to write first-person. Nowadays, I draw inspiration heavily from whatever music I'm listening to at the time--anything from Pink Floyd to System of a Down to movie soundtracks. I also get a lot of inspiration from my friends on BZP, especially my readers.

3) Yes--plan your story out. Even if it's just "Kopaka goes to Ko-Koro. He fights this guy. Kopaka wins and town loves him." It makes the writing process so much easier--the more detailed the outline, the easier it will be. Even with how much I planned out TI2, I ended up having a three-month hiatus just because I had no idea how to write the part I was supposed to be writing, or how I would go with it, or how I'd get back to the main plot after. At the same time, if you find your outline changing as you write, let it. Keeping it flexible and not overly specific will make writing fun and take you in directions you may not expect, but still enjoy.

4) Oh, jeez, yes. Case in point: the time between Chapters 13 and 14 of TI2. I had reached a low point in the story--basically just walking around, nothing happening, and everyone being miserable about being stuck in the Archives. I just wasn't having fun writing anymore. The same happened in TI3, when Akuna and the group is basically just walking back to Ta-Metru. I was racking my brain, trying to think of ways to fill up the chapters with more than just, "We walked a long time." Part of the problem with TI3, though, was that I didn't have as definite an outline as TI2. That's where you've got to figure out, "Okay. What's supposed to happen?" and just write that down, whether it's just a couple of sentences or not. Then you can fill in the gaps with internal monologue, descriptions, character development, and anything else you can think of.

5) At this point, I think I'm pretty much done with Bionicle fanfic-ing. I don't plan on going back to rewrite anything, and TI, TI2, and TI3 are finally finished. I've toyed with the idea of writing a TI4, with Mohio as the narrator, but I feel like I would be writing it simply for the sake of making a sequel, which I try to avoid. I try to decide on what to write by really over-analyzing the idea, seeing how long I could keep it up for, and if it would ultimately make a difference to me. As tempting as a TI4 is, I think I need to move away from Bionicle fanfic, even if just for the time being, and I don't want to put my readers through the long waits between chapters that I had for the Torn Identities series. I've lost a few readers that way; I know that.