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Feb. 3rd, 2005 04:22 pmtommygirlKeep the questions coming! I love the questions! It's fun and I'm very, very bored at work!
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1) Who was the first character you ever created?
I think the first wasa girl character named Katie. She was in Missouri for summer vacation and she and friends discovered treasures in the caverns…yeah, it was my first unknowing Mary Sue! In fairness though, I was eight years old.
2) What's your favorite type of book and why?
Okay, I have an admission to make…I love chick lit. Not romance so much as the young twentysomething (Usually wants to be a writer) looking for love. I read other stuff, lots of it, but these are my favorites. I adore them. Sometimes I wonder why I adore them, but I do. There…now you know my secret.
3) What was your first fanfic?
That anyone on the internet saw or ever? Hee. I used to write 90210 and Party of Five stories for my friends and myself. None of it ever saw the light of day (well, there was one really bad Nsync story from back when they started thatiamtheenemy has seen and mocked with me.) The first story published on the Internet was Two Weeks - a Lance Bass story. I was out of school and work sick for a month, had nothing to do, was upset by the lack of Lance Bass fanfic at the time, and wrote one myself. I never expected anyone outside my small circle of online friends to enjoy it, but I created a monster! Heh.
4) How did you start writing?
It’s pretty much a threefold sort of answer. I grew up with parents, especially my dad, who was very much about me using my imagination all the time. I used to write plays and musicals and choreograph dances to put on for the family...then I discovered this book when I was about eight. Harriet the Spy. I started keeping notebooks of people and writing little stories – but as I lived in an affluent Jersey suburb, there wasn’t much to report about, so I started making up stories. The final part of it was when we would travel (BY CAR! Back before things like tvs were in cars or gameboys existed) to my grandmother’s farm in Missouri for the summer and there was nothing. I would write these stories and my family, especially my dad, loved to read them. They would tell me I could write the next Nancy Drew series (very big deal to me) and I believed it.
It’s just always been something that I’ve done. It’s weird too because…my dad died when I was young, so I didn’t know this stuff at the time, but when we were packing up the house before the mother’s move, I found all these old noir stories he used to write. Apparently he wanted to be a writer, but never considered himself good enough. So it’s just something now I feel closer to him about.
Wow. Really long answer.
5) Who's your current celebrity crush?
Well, there is the soulmate – Ben Affleck. And then many, many crushes…but um…Orlando Bloom, Clive Owen, Johnny Depp, Ioan Gruffud, Jamie Bamber – almost any goodlooking British boy!
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dragonsinger1) Who was the first character you ever created?
I think the first wasa girl character named Katie. She was in Missouri for summer vacation and she and friends discovered treasures in the caverns…yeah, it was my first unknowing Mary Sue! In fairness though, I was eight years old.
2) What's your favorite type of book and why?
Okay, I have an admission to make…I love chick lit. Not romance so much as the young twentysomething (Usually wants to be a writer) looking for love. I read other stuff, lots of it, but these are my favorites. I adore them. Sometimes I wonder why I adore them, but I do. There…now you know my secret.
3) What was your first fanfic?
That anyone on the internet saw or ever? Hee. I used to write 90210 and Party of Five stories for my friends and myself. None of it ever saw the light of day (well, there was one really bad Nsync story from back when they started that
iamtheenemy has seen and mocked with me.) The first story published on the Internet was Two Weeks - a Lance Bass story. I was out of school and work sick for a month, had nothing to do, was upset by the lack of Lance Bass fanfic at the time, and wrote one myself. I never expected anyone outside my small circle of online friends to enjoy it, but I created a monster! Heh.4) How did you start writing?
It’s pretty much a threefold sort of answer. I grew up with parents, especially my dad, who was very much about me using my imagination all the time. I used to write plays and musicals and choreograph dances to put on for the family...then I discovered this book when I was about eight. Harriet the Spy. I started keeping notebooks of people and writing little stories – but as I lived in an affluent Jersey suburb, there wasn’t much to report about, so I started making up stories. The final part of it was when we would travel (BY CAR! Back before things like tvs were in cars or gameboys existed) to my grandmother’s farm in Missouri for the summer and there was nothing. I would write these stories and my family, especially my dad, loved to read them. They would tell me I could write the next Nancy Drew series (very big deal to me) and I believed it.
It’s just always been something that I’ve done. It’s weird too because…my dad died when I was young, so I didn’t know this stuff at the time, but when we were packing up the house before the mother’s move, I found all these old noir stories he used to write. Apparently he wanted to be a writer, but never considered himself good enough. So it’s just something now I feel closer to him about.
Wow. Really long answer.
5) Who's your current celebrity crush?
Well, there is the soulmate – Ben Affleck. And then many, many crushes…but um…Orlando Bloom, Clive Owen, Johnny Depp, Ioan Gruffud, Jamie Bamber – almost any goodlooking British boy!
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Date: 2005-02-03 02:14 pm (UTC)I love chick lit too :)
Have you read Jennifer Weiner?
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Date: 2005-02-03 04:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-03 05:26 pm (UTC)There's a really good anthology of chick lit short stories called Girls Night In and all the money goes to some charity (can't quite remember which one right now).
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Date: 2005-02-04 05:33 am (UTC)A really good one that you should read if you haven't is God-Shaped Hole by Tiffanie DeBartalo. I love that book...it's so good. Trust me on that.
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Date: 2005-02-04 01:47 pm (UTC)I will have to add that to my amazon wishlist and pick it up at some point in the future :)
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Date: 2005-02-03 06:05 pm (UTC)And you started with Harriet the Spy, too? Loved that book as a kid.:D
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Date: 2005-02-04 05:36 am (UTC)That's very true. All my boyfriends have always had brown hair. Heh.
And really, I think it would be suspicious if any kid told me they didn't love Harriet the Spy or Westing Game. Heh.