[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Welcome to who’s on fourth where we interview one member of the yeah write community and the interview will publish the fourth Monday of each month. Next in the series features Arden Ruth interviewing Seraphina of Modern Day Dirae.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]
yeah write on yeah write: Arden interviews Seraphina
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Early last year, a new writer emerged on the yeah write scene. While everything she brought to the grid was gold, I was immediately struck by the passion in her nonfiction submissions. Whether she was discussing bullying, the revisiting of feelings, or harassment, each word was placed with such purpose that I couldn’t help but immediately scroll back up and read again to make sure I didn’t miss a single syllable. That being said, you need only click on her yeah write category to see how all her words (nonfiction, fiction, poetry, etc.) affected our readers here at yeah write. Nearly every post carries a top three, crowd fave, or editor’s pick badge beside it.
Enter Seraphina of Modern Day Dirae.
I think what keeps me coming back [to yeah write] is the feedback that I get on my writing, week after week. Feeling like there are people who are interested in reading what I’m writing is also a good result of writing for yeah write. Writing is an isolating experience in a lot of ways. Feedback and community definitely help to keep you moving.
To say we’re glad she keeps coming back would be quite the understatement. You can find Seraphina on all three grids, but there is a particular one she prefers.
I have to say that the microstories are the ones that I have the most fun with. The idea of creating an environment and a narrative in such a small package is deeply compelling to me. I feel the same way about miniature appetizers at restaurants.
As always, I wanted to know what advice Seraphina would give to our yeah write lurkers & virgins out there.
Keep writing. Keep submitting to the grids. Having a daily writing practice is so helpful to your development, and involvement with yeah write can really help with that. I recently struggled through a major depression and my writing was the first thing to go. It still hasn’t really come back to me. And I have to say that parsing through things when writing can be helpful, but also very vulnerable. That’s likely why depression robs us of words. Because helping ourselves and feeling vulnerable when we are in that state are both impossibly difficult things to do.
Seraphina has been a writer for as long as she can remember.
I think the first time I ever really identified with writing as a passion was in middle school. I started writing what amounted to fan fiction about books that I loved by Mercedes Lackey and Tamora Pierce. I loved doing it. I loved losing myself in a story that I was creating, which was such a different and strangely similar feeling to losing myself in a story that someone else had given to me.
When Seraphina isn’t writing, you can find her doing any number of things including reading, playing video and board games, spending time with her friends, and/or playing with her pups and kitties.
I am reading three books right now. The first is The Science of Trust by John Gottman. It’s a really well written and well researched book on relationships. I highly recommend it. The second is Don’t Be A Jerk by Brad Warner, which is a book about Zen Master Dogen’s Shobo Genzo. And the third is a comic series called Y: The Last Man, which is an incredibly riveting and insightful series about the world after a disease wipes out every being with a Y chromosome except for a young man named Yorick and his pet monkey, Ampersand.
As for her writing, Seraphina hopes to up her game on Modern Day Dirae, but she has some other projects up her sleeve as well.
I would like to get to a place where my blog was a regular practice (2 or 3 times weekly) for more than a year. This is obviously something that I need to reboot for 2016. I am also working on a longer project. I can’t say too much about it. Let’s just say that it’s my answer to 50 Shades, Twilight, and The Hunger Games.
[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Thank you Seraphina for letting us get to know you a little better here at yeah write. We are so happy to have you in our community! Make sure you follow Seraphina’s blog, Modern Day Dirae. You can also follow her on Twitter, Instagram & Goodreads.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”28740″ alignment=”right”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Oh, you want more? Well here are five things you never knew about Seraphina:
- She has very strong opinions on what makes a good board game, but they always sound kind of mean when she says them so they haven’t made the blog yet.
- She’s a cat person. She loves her dog, but if she had to pick a dog or a cat, it would be a cat.
- Her absolute favorite food is basically anything you can make out of potatoes. Mashed, fried, or roasted. She’ll eat them basically any way that you prepare them.
- She has a pretty extreme phobia of anything going in or touching her eyes. It’s why she will never wear contacts. And she is very, very careful with that cats-eye makeup you see her wearing all the time.
- The only house that she will ever buy will be a vacation home somewhere that she can visit all the time and one day retire to.
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Are you ready for the yeah write #259 weekly writing challenges opening this week? We hope so! Your badges await in the sidebar. Grab the code, paste into the text or HTML view of your post, then submit your post to the grids for a little friendly competition. We’re glad you’re here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
