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changelingSo, that writing survey. If nothing else, this forces me to work out in my own mind what I have on the backburner.
1. What's the name of your current project?
Uhm. Heh. Good question. *ponders* Sorry there are so many; I write them because I have to get it out of my head.
1) The Shadow Boys
2) Mad Gods & Englishmen (Working Title)
3) Sequel to #2. Can't remember if it has a title.
4) Collection of short stories, horror/dark fantasy. No title.
5) Orpheus story... which is called Orpheus Decends, if I remember rightly.
6) Clowntown (very working title. As in, I just invented it then.)
2. What kind of work is it (novel, play, short fiction, etc.)?
1) Novel. Mebbe Young Adult. Much as I hate that term...
2 & 3) Graphic novels.
4) Collection of short stories.
5) Graphic novel.
6) Graphic novel. Somewhat whimsical.
3. How long have you been writing it for?
1) Only a few months.
2) Since November 2001.
3) In theory, since November 2002. Started before that, though.
4) This year, I think. Maybe end of last year.
5-6) Only a few months. Say about six or seven.
4. How far have you got in that time?
1, 3-6) Not very far, yet. *sighs, tears hair out*
2) I wrote 19 thou words as a prose book, before changing my mind midstream when my momentum gave out. Started adapting it across. It is slow and painful work. I didn't even finish the damn book as prose... and I'm adding at least one extra chapter beforehand.
5. Have you planned out the rest of the work?
I do not plan. I have beginnings, and I (usually) have endings. Finding the middles is the tricky bit.
6. Is it going to be a standalone, or could there be sequels?
2 and 3 are two parts of what will be a three part series. The rest will be standalone.
7. Have you written anything else with the same characters?
No.
8. Would you consider writing an erotic story based on the work or the character in it?
I couldn't. I couldn't step away from it.
9. What would you say are your main influences?
Neil Gaiman, mythology, fairy tales, my warped view of the world.
10. If you could do a crossover story with another famous author who could it be?
Neil Gaiman. Of my online friends? Zan, Buhfly or Sandra. That would be pretty nifty.
11. Do you have friends who write as well?
Of course. How else would this get passed around?
12. Have you ever done a crossover with your work and theirs?
Nope.
13. Ok! So your work's been a massive hit and a big movie company wants to make a movie of it. Whom do you cast?
Jeezus... Well, the lead ShadowBoy is a young Neil Gaiman, ala his photo in the back of Kindly Ones. Beyond that... I couldn't try and force these vague faces I have in my head onto people. That would just be... wrong, somehow.
14. Would you say there are any particular themes/issues that run through your work?
Love... of a sort. Obsession. (those two from the short story collection, as it currently stands, but also 2 & 3.) Uh... transition. Journeying. Can I stop now? This hurts my head. I don't try and put messages in my stories. That's just anathema to me. I just tell the stories the best I can.
15. Finally, what do you like most about the work?
Having other people react - enjoying it, or being creeped out by it. Being disturbed. It's all good.
I also like having finished things. Then the story stops buzzing in my head.
Dad came back today. My family did not wake me to go to the airport with them. This was possibly a good thing, as I did not go to bed until 4am. Dad brought me back a watch from America; a big, shiny silver watch, not a girly, wussy watch. This is the third watch my parents have given me, and seeing it is neither partly pink, nor has Minnie Mouse on it, it will probably also be the first watch that hasn't ended up belonging to my mother.
I have finished the peanut butter m&ms my parents brought back. This makes me sad.
I accomplished nothing today, as I rather expected. I never do on weekends. I have far too much to do, so my brain goes into overload and does none of it. I played some Monkey Island 3, HOMM3, and watched the first episode of Daria (the Esteemsters) again.
Nys showed me her personal essay for English, to get me to fix it up. It was about Leigh, the boy next door with cystic fibrosis and her relationship to him. He died four years ago, when he was about 12. He was like a cousin to us, I guess. We weren't that close, but we were closer to hiim than we would be to any of our own blood cousins. We grew up with him and his brothers. I was always rather fond of him, in a sort of distant way. I regret we didn't spend all that much time together, but we didn't have enormous amounts of things in common. I miss him. I'd managed to shut Leigh away in a small part of my brain and forget him. Not have an emotional reaction anymore. Nyssa's story brought it all back, just as writing this does. I told Nyssa that I thought her story was good, but she should probably get the reaction of one of her friends; someone who wasn't directly affected by the story.
Well, I've just gone and depressed myself. I should be getting ready for bed.
... shit.
1. What's the name of your current project?
Uhm. Heh. Good question. *ponders* Sorry there are so many; I write them because I have to get it out of my head.
1) The Shadow Boys
2) Mad Gods & Englishmen (Working Title)
3) Sequel to #2. Can't remember if it has a title.
4) Collection of short stories, horror/dark fantasy. No title.
5) Orpheus story... which is called Orpheus Decends, if I remember rightly.
6) Clowntown (very working title. As in, I just invented it then.)
2. What kind of work is it (novel, play, short fiction, etc.)?
1) Novel. Mebbe Young Adult. Much as I hate that term...
2 & 3) Graphic novels.
4) Collection of short stories.
5) Graphic novel.
6) Graphic novel. Somewhat whimsical.
3. How long have you been writing it for?
1) Only a few months.
2) Since November 2001.
3) In theory, since November 2002. Started before that, though.
4) This year, I think. Maybe end of last year.
5-6) Only a few months. Say about six or seven.
4. How far have you got in that time?
1, 3-6) Not very far, yet. *sighs, tears hair out*
2) I wrote 19 thou words as a prose book, before changing my mind midstream when my momentum gave out. Started adapting it across. It is slow and painful work. I didn't even finish the damn book as prose... and I'm adding at least one extra chapter beforehand.
5. Have you planned out the rest of the work?
I do not plan. I have beginnings, and I (usually) have endings. Finding the middles is the tricky bit.
6. Is it going to be a standalone, or could there be sequels?
2 and 3 are two parts of what will be a three part series. The rest will be standalone.
7. Have you written anything else with the same characters?
No.
8. Would you consider writing an erotic story based on the work or the character in it?
I couldn't. I couldn't step away from it.
9. What would you say are your main influences?
Neil Gaiman, mythology, fairy tales, my warped view of the world.
10. If you could do a crossover story with another famous author who could it be?
Neil Gaiman. Of my online friends? Zan, Buhfly or Sandra. That would be pretty nifty.
11. Do you have friends who write as well?
Of course. How else would this get passed around?
12. Have you ever done a crossover with your work and theirs?
Nope.
13. Ok! So your work's been a massive hit and a big movie company wants to make a movie of it. Whom do you cast?
Jeezus... Well, the lead ShadowBoy is a young Neil Gaiman, ala his photo in the back of Kindly Ones. Beyond that... I couldn't try and force these vague faces I have in my head onto people. That would just be... wrong, somehow.
14. Would you say there are any particular themes/issues that run through your work?
Love... of a sort. Obsession. (those two from the short story collection, as it currently stands, but also 2 & 3.) Uh... transition. Journeying. Can I stop now? This hurts my head. I don't try and put messages in my stories. That's just anathema to me. I just tell the stories the best I can.
15. Finally, what do you like most about the work?
Having other people react - enjoying it, or being creeped out by it. Being disturbed. It's all good.
I also like having finished things. Then the story stops buzzing in my head.
Dad came back today. My family did not wake me to go to the airport with them. This was possibly a good thing, as I did not go to bed until 4am. Dad brought me back a watch from America; a big, shiny silver watch, not a girly, wussy watch. This is the third watch my parents have given me, and seeing it is neither partly pink, nor has Minnie Mouse on it, it will probably also be the first watch that hasn't ended up belonging to my mother.
I have finished the peanut butter m&ms my parents brought back. This makes me sad.
I accomplished nothing today, as I rather expected. I never do on weekends. I have far too much to do, so my brain goes into overload and does none of it. I played some Monkey Island 3, HOMM3, and watched the first episode of Daria (the Esteemsters) again.
Nys showed me her personal essay for English, to get me to fix it up. It was about Leigh, the boy next door with cystic fibrosis and her relationship to him. He died four years ago, when he was about 12. He was like a cousin to us, I guess. We weren't that close, but we were closer to hiim than we would be to any of our own blood cousins. We grew up with him and his brothers. I was always rather fond of him, in a sort of distant way. I regret we didn't spend all that much time together, but we didn't have enormous amounts of things in common. I miss him. I'd managed to shut Leigh away in a small part of my brain and forget him. Not have an emotional reaction anymore. Nyssa's story brought it all back, just as writing this does. I told Nyssa that I thought her story was good, but she should probably get the reaction of one of her friends; someone who wasn't directly affected by the story.
Well, I've just gone and depressed myself. I should be getting ready for bed.
... shit.
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