J: Absolutely not, it’s still a lot to wrap my head around. Art by on TwitterĪffinity:Malignant was pretty successful on its own but Duplicity has truly taken the platform by storm, did you expect it to become this big or have the success it currently has? For Harry, it’s gotta be a choice between “To Be So Lonely”, “Fine Line”, or “Only Angel”. One Direction is a close call between “Clouds”, “What a Feeling”, and “Right Now”. He’s an incredible person who always been special to me like so many others, so I started writing again and I haven’t stopped since.Īffinity: Delving more into that question, do you have a favorite song by Harry Styles or One Direction?
As silly as it may sound, the only thing that made my new surroundings feel familiar was keeping up with Harry’s music because it was something I’ve done all my life and reminded me of living at home.
Instead of meeting new people and trying to enjoy the new experience, I ended up isolating myself for very unhealthy periods of time. From that point, I was alone and more anxious than ever in my new surroundings. Later down the road for college, I moved away from where I lived all my life. So because of all that, it stopped me from doing a lot of things through most of my teen years to now. I had this obsessive fear of public attention and humiliation.
I’ve always been a socially anxious person who didn’t express myself unless I was in a comfortable place surrounded by friends. Writing in general, became a therapeutic way to cope with anxiety. Eventually, I came back to it legitimately because I found myself using it as an outlet for my problems rather than just fun. Zero people were reading it at the time so the whole process was very casual and unplanned to me. I fell out of it quite early on into the book but reverted back once in a while. I created a simple plotline with a few chapters in a notebook and started posting it on Wattpad many months later with no writing experience whatsoever. When I began writing, I was young and doing it to merely pass time on a camping trip. When they branched off into solos I followed Harry’s career the most. J: I’ve been a huge fan of One Direction since 2011-2012. I don’t have any writing experience prior to my first story, although I think I started planning that book around 6 years ago.Īffinity:What drew you to write and be inspired about Harry Styles specifically? Thank you so much for approaching me with this opportunity, it’s a huge honor to be apart of such an amazing magazine!Īffinity: You started your writing career on Wattpad with the book “Malignant”, have you had any experience in the field prior to this? Julez: Hi! Yes, this is the first time I’ve done anything like this. © Fiona McKinlayĪffinity: Hi Julez! How are you feeling? This is your first interview, right? It is with a great pinch of fan girl nostalgia and reminiscence of my hours of scrolling upon digital pages, picturing myself to be canonically married to Harry Styles that I had the pleasure to conduct an Interview with Julez. Indeed, despite not being the first person on the platform to have been inspired by the now 27 year old solo singer, she is definitely one of the latest to have revolutionized the world of fanfiction. Self-proclaimed “sucker for dark Harry with character development”, she goes by the name of Julez and has mastered that precited arc that many have a soft spot for. However, one author has recently captured the attention of more than 60 million readers with her two books: Malignant and Duplicity, both casting Harry Styles as a fictional character. Above the romantic and coming of age sections, fanfiction has always been a top charter and has seen thousands upon thousands of One Direction related fan fiction, most amassing more than 1 million reads each at the platform’s prime. Wattpad is a website that allows for both amateur and established writers to publish their work and share it with a niche community. Fueled by this adoration, One Direction fans were quick to translate it on a new platform: Wattpad.