Interview!
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1. *ahem* So. Tell me. When are you going back to work on Untitled? Hm?
*coughs* Well, that's a good question! I've been stuck on it for a while, not to mention distracted by other things... I do fully intend to get back to it at some point, and having people ask me about is certainly motivational! I have a lot of the story worked out in my head, but I'm not sure if it's going where I wanted it to. I should sit down and re-read it, and see what happens!
2. For whatever reason, you're going to be dropped on a desert island. You're given a solar operated laptop ahead of time. What do you load on the hard drive? 10 gig limit.
Oh, it would have to be as many long fics as I could possibly download from MA, Azkaban's Lair, and Ink Stained Fingers. Everything ever written byjedirita, nimori, gloriana, helens78, and other authors whose names escape me at the moment. And all of QAJ, of course! And I'd have to leave some room on the hard drive so that I could write my own stuff, because reading fic just makes me want to write more. Would I have a wireless internet connection so that I could post what I write? Probably not...
3. Music! Favorite kind?
Can I say everything? About the only kind of music I really don't like is 70s adult contemporary, mostly because it reminds me of when my parents split up when I was a kid. I have a soft spot for 70s/80s hard rock, though. Love Kiss, Metallica, and Sammy Hagar, even though I was too young to even be aware of some of those bands when they were originally popular.
4. You've just arrived at Disneyland! Where do you go first?
Oh, yes! Space Mountain, baby! Yeah!
5. And just how on earth did you discover slash?
Quite by accident, really. I was ignorant until a little over a year ago. After AotC, I read through all the prequel SW profic there was, and needed more. I bought a copy of the SW fan mag and one of the letters to the editor said something about fan fiction. I was intrigued, so I did a search on the internet, and almost immediately found a lot of NC-17 Luke/Mara stuff. This made me extremely happy, since I'd spent some time writing Luke/Mara stories myself several years earlier! It was a surprise to find so much fanfic out there, because I thought it was just this weird thing *I* did, you know? I continued searching for TPM-era fic, and kept seeing this header "SLASH", and had no idea what it meant. So I read a slash fic. It was some sort of BDSM thing, and I nearly choked on my coffee. It squicked me, and I didn't finish reading it. But the Qui/Obi pairing was firmly planted in my mind, so I kept looking for more genteel fics. (More than a year later, I'm nearly unsquickable, btw!) I kept reading, joined the MA list, and then I started writing. My first fic was "The Moonflower Festival", and I had no intention of writing slash when I started it. That was going to be a gen story. But the more slash I read, the more the story just went that way, and before I knew it, I was writing graphic m/m sex scenes. Then I methelens78, and the rest is a blur!
Thanks for asking!
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wyomingnot1. *ahem* So. Tell me. When are you going back to work on Untitled? Hm?
*coughs* Well, that's a good question! I've been stuck on it for a while, not to mention distracted by other things... I do fully intend to get back to it at some point, and having people ask me about is certainly motivational! I have a lot of the story worked out in my head, but I'm not sure if it's going where I wanted it to. I should sit down and re-read it, and see what happens!
2. For whatever reason, you're going to be dropped on a desert island. You're given a solar operated laptop ahead of time. What do you load on the hard drive? 10 gig limit.
Oh, it would have to be as many long fics as I could possibly download from MA, Azkaban's Lair, and Ink Stained Fingers. Everything ever written by
jedirita, nimori, gloriana, helens78, and other authors whose names escape me at the moment. And all of QAJ, of course! And I'd have to leave some room on the hard drive so that I could write my own stuff, because reading fic just makes me want to write more. Would I have a wireless internet connection so that I could post what I write? Probably not...3. Music! Favorite kind?
Can I say everything? About the only kind of music I really don't like is 70s adult contemporary, mostly because it reminds me of when my parents split up when I was a kid. I have a soft spot for 70s/80s hard rock, though. Love Kiss, Metallica, and Sammy Hagar, even though I was too young to even be aware of some of those bands when they were originally popular.
4. You've just arrived at Disneyland! Where do you go first?
Oh, yes! Space Mountain, baby! Yeah!
5. And just how on earth did you discover slash?
Quite by accident, really. I was ignorant until a little over a year ago. After AotC, I read through all the prequel SW profic there was, and needed more. I bought a copy of the SW fan mag and one of the letters to the editor said something about fan fiction. I was intrigued, so I did a search on the internet, and almost immediately found a lot of NC-17 Luke/Mara stuff. This made me extremely happy, since I'd spent some time writing Luke/Mara stories myself several years earlier! It was a surprise to find so much fanfic out there, because I thought it was just this weird thing *I* did, you know? I continued searching for TPM-era fic, and kept seeing this header "SLASH", and had no idea what it meant. So I read a slash fic. It was some sort of BDSM thing, and I nearly choked on my coffee. It squicked me, and I didn't finish reading it. But the Qui/Obi pairing was firmly planted in my mind, so I kept looking for more genteel fics. (More than a year later, I'm nearly unsquickable, btw!) I kept reading, joined the MA list, and then I started writing. My first fic was "The Moonflower Festival", and I had no intention of writing slash when I started it. That was going to be a gen story. But the more slash I read, the more the story just went that way, and before I knew it, I was writing graphic m/m sex scenes. Then I met
helens78, and the rest is a blur!Thanks for asking!
Rules:
1. Leave a comment saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I'll reply and give you five questions to answer.
3. You'll update your LJ with the five questions answered.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed. And it just keeps going, and going, and going.
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Date: 2003-08-14 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-14 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-14 03:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-14 03:24 pm (UTC)*grinning*
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Date: 2003-08-14 04:57 pm (UTC)Oh, and "Untitled"! Whatever did happen to that? I'll be thrilled to see more if you ever get around to writing more, but no pressure!
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Date: 2003-08-14 09:14 pm (UTC)Well, it's on the hard drive, snoozing quietly snuggled up next to "The Bodyguard" at the moment. I'll get back to them, as soon as I can shoot some of these damn bunnies running everywhere.
Questions: Hmmm...
1) Where did the idea for Aubris Feln come from?
2) How's the nipple piercing? Still fun? Fully healed?
3) If you had your university years to do over (knowing what you know now), what would change?
4) You've been writing a lot of BDSM lately. Where does all of that insight into the emotions and experience of it come from? Why about it appeals to you at this point in time, as a writer?
5) Ever knit anything really naughty? If not, what naughty thing would you like to knit?
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Date: 2003-08-14 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-14 08:05 pm (UTC)The same way I discovered fan fiction. I read one gen piece, then switched to Mara/Luke. Then I searched on until I saw a page with a lot of warning, including slash and I just *had* to read the stories.
I was new to slash and could never figure out what Q/O stood for. For about three months, I thought the Q was a stylized ass with penis attached (the top) and the O was the receiving partner. I came upon Q/X and could never figure out which sex-position that was. *g* I used my theory until I came upon QG/OW and figured out it was the first letters of the names of the two partners.
I'm rattling... Sorry. *sheepish smile*
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Date: 2003-08-14 09:04 pm (UTC)That's just too cute for words! It shows imagination, at the very least!
I came upon Q/X and could never figure out which sex-position that was.
Hmmm... Some sort of interspecies thing? Squid fic, perhaps? (If you imagine the "arms" of the X are tentacles...)
*grin*
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Date: 2003-08-21 03:08 pm (UTC)Hmmm... Some sort of interspecies thing? Squid fic, perhaps? (If you imagine the "arms" of the X are tentacles...)
*grin*
Ewww. Now I'll never look the same at Xanatos fic again...
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Date: 2003-08-15 03:35 am (UTC)So here are my five:
1. What country do you most want to visit next?
2. Opera: yes or no
3. Favorite m&m color
4. Favorite silver screen actor
5. What's the best book you've read lately? (I've got a book fetish these days)
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Date: 2003-08-15 02:28 pm (UTC)1) Do you think you'll ever finish writing in your universe, or do you see yourself continuing to fill in the details indefinitely?
2) Are there any other fandoms you've ever been tempted to write in?
3) You've won some sort of contest and have been given one year off and large sum of money to travel the world. Where do you go?
4) What's your first memory?
5) Ever think of getting a tattoo? If so, of what?
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Date: 2003-08-19 04:24 am (UTC)Just thought I'd add another person (me) to the list of people waiting for more of Untitled.
Emilie