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fpb1. What's the favorite story you've ever written and why?
Speaking only of fanfics, I like them all, but it may be that Singing over the waters at ffnet comes closer than anything else I have ever done to a sort of intuitive poetics I would like to achieve.
2. What're questions you're most frequently asked?
There is an idea around that I always de-friend anyone who disagrees with me. Ridiculous, really, considering that there is hardly one person on my f-list, not excluding Kayla Rudbek, who really agrees with me.
3. What're your thoughts on betas?
I have written without them for twenty years, and I am rather unhappy at the thought of submitting my work to someone else before it is published. Old dog, new tricks. But an intelligent beta can be a blessing (*cough*Christine*cough*).
4. How important is canon?
I must have asked a million times: if you aren't writing about JKR's characters (or Joss Whedon's, or Gene Roddenberry's, or JRR Tolkien's, or whose-ever), why the Devil are you using their names?
5. What're your fanfic pet peeves?
Smut. Immaturity. OOC. Let's-shock-Daddy. Inappropriate ships done without enough justification. And just about anything to do with harry-draco ships and with redeemable!Draco.
6. What's your favorite fic you've ever read and why?
Hard to tell. If I were forced to choose one, I would probably choose Kayla Rudbek's VECTOR'S CHALLENGE; not that it is necessary better than, say, Hijja or Paracelsus, but because it is so full of life and fun, so broad in its conception - it manages to use pretty much every canon character there is - and so warm and cheerful.
7. What quote applies most to you and why?
Someone called me a Don Quixote looking for windmills. This person seriously meant it as an insult.
8. Do you outline/brainstorm?
Only in dealing with chaptered fics. And it does not work very well. All my chaptered fics develop agonizingly slowly. With single fics, I just let the story wander whither it will.
9. Computer or pen and paper?
Computer.
10. What's your muse's name and favorite temptation to be creative?
My muse's name is known to anyone who has read this LJ. As for favourite temptation to write... If I have written a story, especially if it has been well received, I like to write another. And another. The more I write, the more I want to write. Conversely, I can get stuck in a cycle of doing nothing for months... like now.
Speaking only of fanfics, I like them all, but it may be that Singing over the waters at ffnet comes closer than anything else I have ever done to a sort of intuitive poetics I would like to achieve.
2. What're questions you're most frequently asked?
There is an idea around that I always de-friend anyone who disagrees with me. Ridiculous, really, considering that there is hardly one person on my f-list, not excluding Kayla Rudbek, who really agrees with me.
3. What're your thoughts on betas?
I have written without them for twenty years, and I am rather unhappy at the thought of submitting my work to someone else before it is published. Old dog, new tricks. But an intelligent beta can be a blessing (*cough*Christine*cough*).
4. How important is canon?
I must have asked a million times: if you aren't writing about JKR's characters (or Joss Whedon's, or Gene Roddenberry's, or JRR Tolkien's, or whose-ever), why the Devil are you using their names?
5. What're your fanfic pet peeves?
Smut. Immaturity. OOC. Let's-shock-Daddy. Inappropriate ships done without enough justification. And just about anything to do with harry-draco ships and with redeemable!Draco.
6. What's your favorite fic you've ever read and why?
Hard to tell. If I were forced to choose one, I would probably choose Kayla Rudbek's VECTOR'S CHALLENGE; not that it is necessary better than, say, Hijja or Paracelsus, but because it is so full of life and fun, so broad in its conception - it manages to use pretty much every canon character there is - and so warm and cheerful.
7. What quote applies most to you and why?
Someone called me a Don Quixote looking for windmills. This person seriously meant it as an insult.
8. Do you outline/brainstorm?
Only in dealing with chaptered fics. And it does not work very well. All my chaptered fics develop agonizingly slowly. With single fics, I just let the story wander whither it will.
9. Computer or pen and paper?
Computer.
10. What's your muse's name and favorite temptation to be creative?
My muse's name is known to anyone who has read this LJ. As for favourite temptation to write... If I have written a story, especially if it has been well received, I like to write another. And another. The more I write, the more I want to write. Conversely, I can get stuck in a cycle of doing nothing for months... like now.
