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001. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
002. I will respond by asking you ANY five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
003. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
004. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
005. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
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kalenel:
1) What is your inspiration for writing? Not "who," although you can certainly include authors, but I'm referring to any events that you pull from or objects that you need to have near you in order to write. In other words, I suppose I'm asking about how you create your own inspiration, rather than drawing from other authors, as other people so often seem to do.
Slippage. As in, the slight alteration of a current situation/idea/story, in a continual process to create something new. And... real life, sometimes. Especially with the comic. Funny situations that seem universal or at least recognizable to a particular audience. And sometimes... dreams, odd occurrences of the synaptic process that feel like they could make a good/strange/different story. And sometimes a character will occur to me, and I'll start building a situation that would be interesting for that character. And sometimes a situation/world will occur to me, and I'll start building a character who seems interesting in that situation....
Basically, it's a pretty random process and there's no set way I have of doing things.
2) How do you make time for writing? Do you set aside moments everyday for it, or do you write only when inspiration strikes?
I am really bad about it, actually. I think the best way to get a lot of writing done is to have a deadline. Sometimes I can manage to create my own deadlines and that helps. A lot of the time I think, "Soon I'll have enough time to write...." But the hardest part about writing is to just ... sitdownanddothefreakingwork! So... I'm working on that discipline. Sometimes.
3) Where do you see yourself in ten years? Do you have a master plan that you go from to attain these goals (if you have any), or do you just float along in life and see where it takes you?
I sort of have a five year plan. Beyond that I'm not to sure. Part of it is that I DO want to see what comes up and where it takes me... because it seems like the fastest way to make God laugh is to come up with a definite plan for life.... So in ten years, I will hopefully live somewhere new (relative to where I am now), and will be working as a captioner/court reporter, and still writing whatever comes to me in whatever time I have. Of course if I am a totally successful novelist and don't have to keep the day job, that's okay with me, too!
4) If you could sit down and have tea and scones with any author, dead or alive, who would it be, why, and what would you talk about?
I think it would be pretty cool to sit down and have tea and scones with Gene Wolfe. Because I'M RELATED TO HIM. I have no idea what we'd talk about--hopefully some about writing, and maybe a bit about strange coincidences and happenstance. I just think it would be really cool in terms of ... some of our genetics are the same! Maybe the writing genes! From what I understand he's more reserved in terms of communication with the masses, so it would be interesting to get some insight into a more private author's processes and all that.
(I'd say someone like Neil Gaiman, because I think a conversation with him could never be predictable, but on the other hand, he's so accessible to fans online (which is good!) that it's almost too easy an answer....)
5) Related to the above question: what is your favorite tea? Do you even like tea? Have you ever had scones with devonshire cream and jam? Because it is totally awesome (It is 7:30 a.m. here, and I am ready for breakfast, can you tell?).
I love tea. I have a hibiscus tea that I bought in Chinatown, NY, that I absolutely adore--it's a lighter but distinctive floral flavor. I tend to go for the more floral brews, although peppermint has been a long time favorite. I have had scones, although not with devonshire cream. Some things are hard to get in this part of the country... But yes to the jam!
001. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
002. I will respond by asking you ANY five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
003. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
004. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
005. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
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kalenel:1) What is your inspiration for writing? Not "who," although you can certainly include authors, but I'm referring to any events that you pull from or objects that you need to have near you in order to write. In other words, I suppose I'm asking about how you create your own inspiration, rather than drawing from other authors, as other people so often seem to do.
Slippage. As in, the slight alteration of a current situation/idea/story, in a continual process to create something new. And... real life, sometimes. Especially with the comic. Funny situations that seem universal or at least recognizable to a particular audience. And sometimes... dreams, odd occurrences of the synaptic process that feel like they could make a good/strange/different story. And sometimes a character will occur to me, and I'll start building a situation that would be interesting for that character. And sometimes a situation/world will occur to me, and I'll start building a character who seems interesting in that situation....
Basically, it's a pretty random process and there's no set way I have of doing things.
2) How do you make time for writing? Do you set aside moments everyday for it, or do you write only when inspiration strikes?
I am really bad about it, actually. I think the best way to get a lot of writing done is to have a deadline. Sometimes I can manage to create my own deadlines and that helps. A lot of the time I think, "Soon I'll have enough time to write...." But the hardest part about writing is to just ... sitdownanddothefreakingwork! So... I'm working on that discipline. Sometimes.
3) Where do you see yourself in ten years? Do you have a master plan that you go from to attain these goals (if you have any), or do you just float along in life and see where it takes you?
I sort of have a five year plan. Beyond that I'm not to sure. Part of it is that I DO want to see what comes up and where it takes me... because it seems like the fastest way to make God laugh is to come up with a definite plan for life.... So in ten years, I will hopefully live somewhere new (relative to where I am now), and will be working as a captioner/court reporter, and still writing whatever comes to me in whatever time I have. Of course if I am a totally successful novelist and don't have to keep the day job, that's okay with me, too!
4) If you could sit down and have tea and scones with any author, dead or alive, who would it be, why, and what would you talk about?
I think it would be pretty cool to sit down and have tea and scones with Gene Wolfe. Because I'M RELATED TO HIM. I have no idea what we'd talk about--hopefully some about writing, and maybe a bit about strange coincidences and happenstance. I just think it would be really cool in terms of ... some of our genetics are the same! Maybe the writing genes! From what I understand he's more reserved in terms of communication with the masses, so it would be interesting to get some insight into a more private author's processes and all that.
(I'd say someone like Neil Gaiman, because I think a conversation with him could never be predictable, but on the other hand, he's so accessible to fans online (which is good!) that it's almost too easy an answer....)
5) Related to the above question: what is your favorite tea? Do you even like tea? Have you ever had scones with devonshire cream and jam? Because it is totally awesome (It is 7:30 a.m. here, and I am ready for breakfast, can you tell?).
I love tea. I have a hibiscus tea that I bought in Chinatown, NY, that I absolutely adore--it's a lighter but distinctive floral flavor. I tend to go for the more floral brews, although peppermint has been a long time favorite. I have had scones, although not with devonshire cream. Some things are hard to get in this part of the country... But yes to the jam!
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3. If you could ask anyone, anywhere, any question, and they had to give a completely honest answer, who would you ask and what would you ask?
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