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How do you get inspired to write?
Kongo Alexis I daydream, fantasizing is a hobby of mine. I keep lots of journals and diaries, I love writing whatever comes to mind, from there ideas grow.
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What are you currently working on?
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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?
Kongo Alexis There is a genre for everyone! Just write! If people can watch cat videos all day and like that, there will be people who will enjoy your work, even if it is one person and that person is you. Just write, more will soon join the train.
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What’s the best thing about being a writer?
Kongo Alexis Writing fiction allows me to invent a whole new world just with my mind. It shows just how powerful and limitless our minds are.
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How do you deal with writer’s block?
Kongo Alexis I sleep. Ideas come to me better when my mind is at peace and rested. I allow my mind to wander off and I jot down whatever I encountered in my rested/sleep state when I awake. I also enjoy rereading stories/books that I really liked for inspiration.
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What books are on your summer reading list this year?
Kongo Alexis Various quick reads, romantic fictions short stories.
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Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?
Kongo Alexis I once had a nightmare that horrid-looking mystic creatures were clawing at my chest to rip my heart out.
I woke up and my sweat bra was blood-stained...
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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?
Kongo Alexis I would travel to the following worlds (in no particular order) :
* Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori" and "Tales of the Shikanako People
* Ghana must go" by Taiye Selasi
* Chinua Achebe's Chike and the River
* Any Sidney Sheldon book
* Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah
* Any quick read romance novel by Marion Tee
* Elif Safak's Forty Rules of Love
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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?
Kongo Alexis Lol, the book is not about me, however being of Congolese descent helped me to draw a riveting atmosphere for the lead character. Being Congolese is full of drama :-)
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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?
Kongo Alexis It came to me a serialized dream. The dream would continue like episodes every time I went to sleep. I told my sister about the weird dream and she advised that I diarize them. The diary ultimately became the novel Traded.
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