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cassiphone! I tend to try and keep my recycled memes to one journal entry, so if anyone wants to ask me more questions or be interviewed themselves, then comment and I'll reply in comments and blah blah blah.
1. What are you reading right now, and why?
As usual, I am in the middle of many things!
Underworld, Don DeLillo – only a chapter or so into this one, so the plot is yet to present itself. The author was recommended to me, and after I managed to read my science-drenched way through Ratner’s Star (being then left with a vague feeling that I somehow needed to have my IQ surgically upped by a few points to be able to understand it, but I still enjoyed it thoroughly) I went in search of more DeLillo. I like the way he puts sentences together, and uses words in ways that really shouldn’t work but somehow do. His tendency to ignore commas puts my teeth on edge sometimes, but it fits with his style.
Art & Lies, Jeannette Winterson – again, only just started, and I put it down in a huff after I came across a phrase very similar to something I had just used in a short story. She said it better than me. I’m immature like that. I expect I’ll pick it up again shortly :D Started reading it for the same reasons as above – recommended author, read one book (Sexing the Cherry) and fell deeply in love with the whimsical, lyrical randomness.
(and so forth), Robert Dessaix – about halfway through. My mother lent me Night Letters and I immediately went to the library and tried to find some more of his works, because I’m trying to work out how he can write so simply and chattily and yet manage to create such intimate, colourful images. Having just read an essay of his on the art of writing reviews, I’m beginning to get some idea.
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman – this does not count. You would be hard pressed trying to find a time in the last few years when I haven’t been in the middle of Good Omens.
2. Is that you in your icon picture above, and why did you choose that particular picture?
(picture in question being this one)
No; hah. I wish my legs were that good. That was an icon made for me by a friend. This is me! *points up* And that picture I chose because I’d just dyed my hair and it looked shiny and I was smiling like a normal human being for once.
3. What would you love other people to say about your writing?
Oh, there’s a question and a half.
The one thing that, for me, means that I really enjoyed a piece of writing and admired the author’s style is that it immediately makes me want to write something myself. I’d like people to say that about my stories.
And I guess I want to know that I’ve achieved what I aimed for; I want to hear that I moved people, that I made them laugh, that I struck a nerve and made them remember something of their own lives. From the people I know and respect, the people who I send off half-finished documents to and pester for synonyms and bounce ideas off at 2am…from them I love to hear almost any kind of praise because I know it’ll be honest.
On a more technical level…I’d like people to say that my ideas are original, that my prose is fresh and clever and that my characters are vivid.
4. If you were a novel, what would the title be?
A novel. A novel. Okay then. I’m going to go with the current subtitle of my LJ, ancient and naïve astronomies. Complete with trendy lack of capitalisation! It’s a DeLillo quote; I’d put the paragraph on the frontispiece, all due credit, etc. I just think it’s a gorgeous phrase, and I’ve always been interested in astronomy.
It’d have a lot to do with science, and a lot to do with finding identity, and the steely darker kind of fairytales.
5. What do you like about keeping a LiveJournal?
Mostly? The potential to meet and communicate with people all over the world, people who I can be geeky and crazy with and can discuss common interests with. I’ve joined some fun RPGs and I know my writing has improved a lot. I have the capacity to post my stories and poems and crazy little fic-things, both fanfic and original, and get feedback for them.
Also: it’s a record of my life, a fairly reliable news source, a good way of organising social events, and a constant source of links to things that are new and surprising.
Thanks to LJ I have made friends so good I'm spending crazy amounts of money to fly across to the States and see them next year :D
cassiphone! I tend to try and keep my recycled memes to one journal entry, so if anyone wants to ask me more questions or be interviewed themselves, then comment and I'll reply in comments and blah blah blah.1. What are you reading right now, and why?
As usual, I am in the middle of many things!
Underworld, Don DeLillo – only a chapter or so into this one, so the plot is yet to present itself. The author was recommended to me, and after I managed to read my science-drenched way through Ratner’s Star (being then left with a vague feeling that I somehow needed to have my IQ surgically upped by a few points to be able to understand it, but I still enjoyed it thoroughly) I went in search of more DeLillo. I like the way he puts sentences together, and uses words in ways that really shouldn’t work but somehow do. His tendency to ignore commas puts my teeth on edge sometimes, but it fits with his style.
Art & Lies, Jeannette Winterson – again, only just started, and I put it down in a huff after I came across a phrase very similar to something I had just used in a short story. She said it better than me. I’m immature like that. I expect I’ll pick it up again shortly :D Started reading it for the same reasons as above – recommended author, read one book (Sexing the Cherry) and fell deeply in love with the whimsical, lyrical randomness.
(and so forth), Robert Dessaix – about halfway through. My mother lent me Night Letters and I immediately went to the library and tried to find some more of his works, because I’m trying to work out how he can write so simply and chattily and yet manage to create such intimate, colourful images. Having just read an essay of his on the art of writing reviews, I’m beginning to get some idea.
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman – this does not count. You would be hard pressed trying to find a time in the last few years when I haven’t been in the middle of Good Omens.
2. Is that you in your icon picture above, and why did you choose that particular picture?
(picture in question being this one)
No; hah. I wish my legs were that good. That was an icon made for me by a friend. This is me! *points up* And that picture I chose because I’d just dyed my hair and it looked shiny and I was smiling like a normal human being for once.
3. What would you love other people to say about your writing?
Oh, there’s a question and a half.
The one thing that, for me, means that I really enjoyed a piece of writing and admired the author’s style is that it immediately makes me want to write something myself. I’d like people to say that about my stories.
And I guess I want to know that I’ve achieved what I aimed for; I want to hear that I moved people, that I made them laugh, that I struck a nerve and made them remember something of their own lives. From the people I know and respect, the people who I send off half-finished documents to and pester for synonyms and bounce ideas off at 2am…from them I love to hear almost any kind of praise because I know it’ll be honest.
On a more technical level…I’d like people to say that my ideas are original, that my prose is fresh and clever and that my characters are vivid.
4. If you were a novel, what would the title be?
A novel. A novel. Okay then. I’m going to go with the current subtitle of my LJ, ancient and naïve astronomies. Complete with trendy lack of capitalisation! It’s a DeLillo quote; I’d put the paragraph on the frontispiece, all due credit, etc. I just think it’s a gorgeous phrase, and I’ve always been interested in astronomy.
It’d have a lot to do with science, and a lot to do with finding identity, and the steely darker kind of fairytales.
5. What do you like about keeping a LiveJournal?
Mostly? The potential to meet and communicate with people all over the world, people who I can be geeky and crazy with and can discuss common interests with. I’ve joined some fun RPGs and I know my writing has improved a lot. I have the capacity to post my stories and poems and crazy little fic-things, both fanfic and original, and get feedback for them.
Also: it’s a record of my life, a fairly reliable news source, a good way of organising social events, and a constant source of links to things that are new and surprising.
Thanks to LJ I have made friends so good I'm spending crazy amounts of money to fly across to the States and see them next year :D
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2) If you had to lose one of your senses, which would it be?
3) You're a time travelling reporter! Pick two historical events that you want to be send back to cover.
4) Should men be allowed to wear skirts?
5) Is the world going to hell, or is it yet redeemable?
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2) Smell. I have a really horrible sense of smell anyway, and probably would never notice the difference. Then taste. Then hearing. Then sight. Touch last of all. I know you only asked for one.
3) That's tricksy! Um, the longshoremen's strike in San Francisco, wherein the entire city acted as one and shut down until the demands were met. The June '87 student uprising in South Korea, because it would make my life so much easier now.
4) Duh: yes. Really, I don't know why you asked me. I think anyone should be allowed to wear anything that they want, even if I don't think it looks good. Let's be nice, children.
5) A lot of the world is hell. I don't care whether or not it's redeemable; that's no reason to throw your hands up and say "I told you so." The thing is to keep on trucking. I'd particularly like to say this to the masses of people who go on about America being the New Rome. This being, in short: so what?
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1) Favorite recurring sensual thing in your writing. You know you have one that you use all the time; everyone does. (I like citrus fruits!)
2) Favorite irredeemable pastime.
3) Favorite unusual leukemia tidbit.
4) Favorite theme park ride. Unless you hate theme parks, in which case say that! But c'mon, you have to still love merry-go-rounds at least for the metaphors.
5) Three kinks you don't think anybody else has.
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2) Hmmm. Eating disgustingly unhealthy foods. The amount of Turkish Delight I've eaten in the past two days is just silly.
3) Ooh! I am learning many new and exciting words. Myelopathy. Visceropathy. Tropical spastic pareisis! Tidbits are not so interesting, although some of the pictures make me want to scream and hide under a pillow and never go to Japan EVER in case I accidentally get a blood transfusion and contract HTLV-1.
4) I have been to Disneyland and one other theme park, both when I was fairly young. I have very fond memories of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, which I made my Future Problem Solving teammates go on twice in a row. There was cool lighting! Liiights. On the water. Okay, I'm seeing a recurring theme here.
5)
a) Very very long skirts. Long heavy material that just brushes the floor, glimpses of shoes or painted toenails when you walk. Deep rich coloured fabric with folds.
b) Um. Lights? All of the stuff mentioned in the first question.
c) I have an anti-kink? The whole wet thing. I mean, I can sort of see it, but... dry and in a crisp white shirt is so much neater. I have a suit thing. Maybe just a clothes thing, really.
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But I love the wet thing. XD