ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Athena Angelbeat is an amateur writer in Wattpad who uses the pen name ATHENAbear. She writes stories that pop out from her mind's imagination, usually possible in real life. Most of her genres are Romance and Comedy with realistic events and most of the times, reflect the real world.
Athena Angelbeat is an amateur writer in Wattpad who uses the pen name ATHENAbear. She writes stories that pop out from her mind's imagination, usually possible in real life. Most of her genres are Romance and Comedy with realistic events and most of the times, reflect the real world.
"Silence is the sanctuary of my mind and the pen is its tongue. I write what I feel, I write what I think, I write what I wish, I write what I dream. I express myself through it. Writing is something that I call, my personal art."
~ Thena ♥
Athena Bear is her username in social networking sites. Since she is very confidential about her real name, she uses Athena Angelbeat as a nickname. She loves to imagine things and create scenes in her mind, and later, write it down and try to make an interesting story with it. Finding out the e-book site, wattpad, was a great way for her to express her thoughts and ideas, in the same time, further widen her imagination, and enhance her writing skills.
When asked about her writing style, She mentioned that she is very particular of her spellings, grammar, order and sequence, and smoothness of the flow of the story. Spacing and proper format of sentences (Bold, Italic, quotation marks, periods, commas, etc.) are always on her list to consider. She makes sure that her readers don't get lost in her story and don't get dizzy in reading it. She also doesn't want to give false information to her readers so sometimes if the need arises, she researches about the idea she's up to before adding it in her writings. She also stated that she wants her story to be more "realistic" and she doesn't want to make her characters, as well as her readers, look and sound as if they're not using their logical reasoning.
"Ayoko gumawa ng mga storya na mejo hindi makatotohanan ang mga reaction ng mga characters sa mga situation na kinakaharap nila. I always ask myself what would I do or say if I'm in my character's situation. Kung anong naging reaction ko, yun na mismo yung sinusulat ko. Kung baga, I always apply the natural tendency of a person, since I always wanted my stories to appear natural. Ayoko ng ginagawa kong tanga ang mga characters at readers ko."
When asked about her forte genre, she announced that she finds it easier writing romance and comedy more than other genres.
"My genres are mostly Romance and Comedy. Pero willing ako magtry sa ibang genres like Fantasy, Adventure, Action, Drama, etc. Aba. Nakakasawa rin yun noh. Puro lampungan lang ang mga characters sa story. So I usually make stories with mixed genres para iwas umay. Three or more maybe?"
She also stated that her mood greatly contributes to the outcome of what she writes. So when she's not in a good mood, she refrains from writing happy chapters because she wouldn't be able to fully justify her character's feelings. When asked about the scenes from her stories, she replied.
"Most of my scenes are really possible in real life. Some of it came from my experiences, some from people I know, most are from my imagination. Reality is always applied in my stories except if we're talking about the fantasy ones. Though some of my scenes might remind you of television series or other scenes from movies, I'll tell you, scenes like that do happen in real life. I've experienced some. Haha!"
Being a slight grade conscious college student taking up BS Psychology, and a music loving person, her time to write her stories is very little. So creating drafts of her stories' chapter is what she does during her spare time. Since she has little time to spend on writing, she always bring a little notebook with her and write her ideas she could add on her stories that just randomly hit her head.
"It's really annoying when I come up with a nice idea the other day then forget it and never ever remember it again. So the notebook is very helpful for busy persons like me. Though I don't look like it, I'm really a busy person. I'm literally busy about everything!"