5 Questions
From
orogeny, who got it from somewhere else.
01. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
02. I respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
03. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
04. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
05. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
Here are the questions she asked me:
1. Do you more often feel older than your years, or younger than your years, and what's happened in your life that's made it that way?
Shit, I don't know. I don't know what it is to feel older than I am now. I guess I'd have to go with younger. I attribute this mainly to my daughter. There's a lot of adjustments in life when your child enters the world. But I doubt I'd be dancing in the kitchen at 6 am in the morning if she hadn't woken me up -- and as much as I hate waking up early, I love dancing with her. I give myself permision to be much sillier in general when she's around.
2. What's your biggest regret, and where do you think you'd be if you'd made a different decision?
This is a tough question because I'm kinda in line with that Bradbury story...you kill a butterfly and alter the entire course of the world. And I'm pretty happy with the way my life has turned out thus far. But if I had to choose something...I wrote a script in college for a vampire movie. I went to a christian college so there weren't a lot of horror movies being made there. And a lot of the film students liked it and wanted to see it made. So I got a bunch of actors together, a producer, the crew, and a director. At the last minute, the director dropped out and I ended up directing the movie. That might have been one of the biggest mistakes of my life.
3. What writers would you most like to have coffee/tea/a drink with, and what would you ask them?
Oh, geez. Ummmm...
Neil Gaiman: When's Neverwhere 2 coming out? What the hell's taking you so long?
China Mieville: What's your favorite monster that you've created? Why? What's your favorite monster somebody else created? Why?
Alex Garland: When are you going to write another book? When are you going to write a science fiction book?
Jonathan Lethem: When are you going to write *another* science fiction book?
Brian K. Vaughan: C'mon, really? Monkey shit? (Then I'd laugh and buy him another drink.)
The Lost writers (which I guess now includes Vaughan): How much did you have planned out from the beginning?
But more than anything I'd love to get the VPX group back together for a couple of nights, room 50 style. I'd take that in a heartbeat over these other guys.
4. What would you do if a magic 8-ball told you that despite decades of work, you'll never come close to making a living wage as a writer of fiction?
Throw it away and buy a new magic 8-ball. That one's obviously broken.
5. If a magic 8-ball told you that you'll have made a vast fortune and accomplished all your goals as a writer within the next ten years, what would you do with your life come year eleven?
I'd go travelling for a year and then come back to writing. I can't imagine ever really leaving it behind. Maybe I'd take another shot at making a movie. Possibly.
orogeny, who got it from somewhere else.
01. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
02. I respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
03. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
04. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
05. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
Here are the questions she asked me:
1. Do you more often feel older than your years, or younger than your years, and what's happened in your life that's made it that way?
Shit, I don't know. I don't know what it is to feel older than I am now. I guess I'd have to go with younger. I attribute this mainly to my daughter. There's a lot of adjustments in life when your child enters the world. But I doubt I'd be dancing in the kitchen at 6 am in the morning if she hadn't woken me up -- and as much as I hate waking up early, I love dancing with her. I give myself permision to be much sillier in general when she's around.
2. What's your biggest regret, and where do you think you'd be if you'd made a different decision?
This is a tough question because I'm kinda in line with that Bradbury story...you kill a butterfly and alter the entire course of the world. And I'm pretty happy with the way my life has turned out thus far. But if I had to choose something...I wrote a script in college for a vampire movie. I went to a christian college so there weren't a lot of horror movies being made there. And a lot of the film students liked it and wanted to see it made. So I got a bunch of actors together, a producer, the crew, and a director. At the last minute, the director dropped out and I ended up directing the movie. That might have been one of the biggest mistakes of my life.
3. What writers would you most like to have coffee/tea/a drink with, and what would you ask them?
Oh, geez. Ummmm...
Neil Gaiman: When's Neverwhere 2 coming out? What the hell's taking you so long?
China Mieville: What's your favorite monster that you've created? Why? What's your favorite monster somebody else created? Why?
Alex Garland: When are you going to write another book? When are you going to write a science fiction book?
Jonathan Lethem: When are you going to write *another* science fiction book?
Brian K. Vaughan: C'mon, really? Monkey shit? (Then I'd laugh and buy him another drink.)
The Lost writers (which I guess now includes Vaughan): How much did you have planned out from the beginning?
But more than anything I'd love to get the VPX group back together for a couple of nights, room 50 style. I'd take that in a heartbeat over these other guys.
4. What would you do if a magic 8-ball told you that despite decades of work, you'll never come close to making a living wage as a writer of fiction?
Throw it away and buy a new magic 8-ball. That one's obviously broken.
5. If a magic 8-ball told you that you'll have made a vast fortune and accomplished all your goals as a writer within the next ten years, what would you do with your life come year eleven?
I'd go travelling for a year and then come back to writing. I can't imagine ever really leaving it behind. Maybe I'd take another shot at making a movie. Possibly.