Meme: Interview
If you'd like to be interviewed leave me a comment and I'll ask you five questions. Then you post your answers in your LJ and interview other people and so on and so forth...
Questions from unfolded73:
1. Where does your username come from?
2. What is your writing process like? What do you do first, and how does it progress from there?
3. When did you start reading slash? Writing it?
4. Favorite Torchwood episode and why?
5. Where do you see yourself in ten years?
1. I originally tried to register as "Morgan_Le_Fay" but that had already been taken, so I took the "M" and put it on the end of "LeFay". I don't actually know all that much about Arthurian mythology, but I do like maligned witch characters, because they are usually pretty strong women. :)
2. My writing process is all over the place. I'll usually start with one phrase and/or image that has popped into my head, and I'll work from there. Sometimes I'll go straight from start to finish, but usually I'll start somewhere in the middle, then write a bit of the end, then a bit from 1/3 of the way through, etc. So far, I haven't written anything really long, but I do have a couple of multi-chapter fics planned out-- I think I'll probably work on those in much the same way that I work on shorter fics, and I suspect that having the plan will be a Good Thing-- the reason that so many of my fics are rambling pieces that don't really go anywhere is because I often just sit down and write for a bit, without thinking too much about structure. Bad me!
3. Ah, well I first found out about slash from a course I did as an undergrad in 2000. It was all about K/S slash written in pre-internet days, and I thought it sounded like the silliest thing ever. :P I did, however, tend to look it up occasionally after that, for a laugh, and as most of the stuff I encountered was REALLY BAD (the 90% of everything is crap rule, and all that), it did nothing to change my original opinion. Then around the middle of last year I began to get really interested in Harry Potter fanfiction academically, so I started reading more of it-- mostly gen, to start with-- and I was able to wade through the crap because I was looking at it critically. And then, eventually, I found good stuff, and it happened that the first good stuff I found was slash (Thirty-five Owls by wired_lizard [Albus/Gellert] and A Feast in Azkaban by nyxfixx [Remus/Sirius] were instrumental in changing my mind)-- and then I realised that it was hot too. :) Mind you, I had already been slashing the characters in my head for a while-- I mean, it's pretty obvious that Remus and Sirius had something going on, and even before Rowling made the Carnegie Hall announcement, I was busy convincing people that Dumbledore was gay.
Anyway, having started reading it, I started to get the urge to write it-- and as it had been a long time since I'd tried any creative writing, I decided that it'd be a good way to get back into the habit. I have to say though, my favourite part about it all is getting to know the other writers and readers-- it's so great to have such a diverse collection of women to bounce ideas off. Back when I read that first article about K/S slash, it made out that it was only straight white women who wrote it, and even though I do fall into that category myself, it seemed a bit--not right-- that it would be classified that way-- way too restrictive. Of course, the reality is that you can't make ANY assumptions about the women (and few men) who write slash. And I love that. :)
4. Captain Jack Harkness-- because it has an amazing script, amazing sets, excellent acting, and a beautiful tragic love story. :)
5. In ten years, hopefully I will have some sort of steady academic job that lets me sit around writing academic papers about Doctor Who and teaching undergraduate courses (possibly also about Doctor Who). :)
Questions from unfolded73:
1. Where does your username come from?
2. What is your writing process like? What do you do first, and how does it progress from there?
3. When did you start reading slash? Writing it?
4. Favorite Torchwood episode and why?
5. Where do you see yourself in ten years?
1. I originally tried to register as "Morgan_Le_Fay" but that had already been taken, so I took the "M" and put it on the end of "LeFay". I don't actually know all that much about Arthurian mythology, but I do like maligned witch characters, because they are usually pretty strong women. :)
2. My writing process is all over the place. I'll usually start with one phrase and/or image that has popped into my head, and I'll work from there. Sometimes I'll go straight from start to finish, but usually I'll start somewhere in the middle, then write a bit of the end, then a bit from 1/3 of the way through, etc. So far, I haven't written anything really long, but I do have a couple of multi-chapter fics planned out-- I think I'll probably work on those in much the same way that I work on shorter fics, and I suspect that having the plan will be a Good Thing-- the reason that so many of my fics are rambling pieces that don't really go anywhere is because I often just sit down and write for a bit, without thinking too much about structure. Bad me!
3. Ah, well I first found out about slash from a course I did as an undergrad in 2000. It was all about K/S slash written in pre-internet days, and I thought it sounded like the silliest thing ever. :P I did, however, tend to look it up occasionally after that, for a laugh, and as most of the stuff I encountered was REALLY BAD (the 90% of everything is crap rule, and all that), it did nothing to change my original opinion. Then around the middle of last year I began to get really interested in Harry Potter fanfiction academically, so I started reading more of it-- mostly gen, to start with-- and I was able to wade through the crap because I was looking at it critically. And then, eventually, I found good stuff, and it happened that the first good stuff I found was slash (Thirty-five Owls by wired_lizard [Albus/Gellert] and A Feast in Azkaban by nyxfixx [Remus/Sirius] were instrumental in changing my mind)-- and then I realised that it was hot too. :) Mind you, I had already been slashing the characters in my head for a while-- I mean, it's pretty obvious that Remus and Sirius had something going on, and even before Rowling made the Carnegie Hall announcement, I was busy convincing people that Dumbledore was gay.
Anyway, having started reading it, I started to get the urge to write it-- and as it had been a long time since I'd tried any creative writing, I decided that it'd be a good way to get back into the habit. I have to say though, my favourite part about it all is getting to know the other writers and readers-- it's so great to have such a diverse collection of women to bounce ideas off. Back when I read that first article about K/S slash, it made out that it was only straight white women who wrote it, and even though I do fall into that category myself, it seemed a bit--not right-- that it would be classified that way-- way too restrictive. Of course, the reality is that you can't make ANY assumptions about the women (and few men) who write slash. And I love that. :)
4. Captain Jack Harkness-- because it has an amazing script, amazing sets, excellent acting, and a beautiful tragic love story. :)
5. In ten years, hopefully I will have some sort of steady academic job that lets me sit around writing academic papers about Doctor Who and teaching undergraduate courses (possibly also about Doctor Who). :)