10. OMG THAT IS HARD because I am such a dialogue maven. Well, I still love this exchange from Nocturnal:
"You're drunk, Richard," he said, finally. It was, after all, not his first glass this evening. Or his second.
"It's John Donne," Richard said, not looking at Edward.
"You're still drunk."
"This is my ancient..." He waved his hand vaguely in Edward's direction, still focused intently on the ceiling. "This my right hand, and this my left. Well, God's above all, and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved." He leaned forward, looking at Edward now as if he'd never seen him before.
"God, I hate my life," he said. "I hate my life."
And this one from The Ghosts of Departed Quantities:
"We are not going to have sex in your kitchen, Richard," Henry says, as much to head off the anecdote at the pass as anything, as they pause in front of the bedroom door
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9. Favorite character to write is obviously Richard, as I am sure you have guessed, because I am THE MOST PREDICTABLE. But my favorite POV to write is Henry's, because he's so hilariously glum all the time, and he is prone to fits of deranged internal logic that are the most fun thing ever. Plus his POV allows me to indulge my natural talent for complaining.
18. Well, there are bits of prose in my earliest fics that I'd like to clean up, but as far as largish things, let us meet them like necessities was supposed to have another subplot involving ghostly dreamvisits from Anne juxtaposed with Henry's relationship with Joan of Navarre and the what-to-do-with-Isabel dilemma, and I couldn't quite make it work in time for the deadline. I still consider going back and putting it in, every once in a while, because MY GIRLS and because there's no reason I can't actually revise it.
One of the great regrets of my life is that I'll probably never find myself in a situation where someone will let me do that, although apparently Greg Doran is raiding my brain for casting ideas without my knowledge, so at least there is that.
6. I answered this one on tumblr, so I'll c/p from over there:
I’ve had a pretty-much abandoned fic in the pipeline for years which was all about Hotspur's dad!crush on Henry IV, but I've never really written it because I have a lot of trouble writing Hotspur. Especially since in this case he'd be a bit of an unreliable narrator - he wouldn't recognize what was going on internally, but the audience would have to, and when I started it, I didn't really have confidence in my ability to make that clear. Later on (like, recently) a few elements of that fic were absorbed into this one, so I probably won't do it now
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Oooh, girl!Richard fic sounds like the best thing ever. I am really, really interested in masculinity studies in general, so that sort of thought exercise is just wonderful.
The whole premise of it is that a lot of things that were disastrous for Richard in real life might have worked out better for him if he'd been female, because quite a few of the things that were considered fatal flaws in a man were considered forgivable in a woman.
*nods* Yes, I can definitely see that. It seems to me that it can actually be useful to respond to the historiography of Richard rather like you would for a woman, given that so much of the criticism of him is very gendered and adjectives usually applied to women who transgress against social norms (hysterical, whiny, bratty, etc.) are often applied to him.
It seems to me that it can actually be useful to respond to the historiography of Richard rather like you would for a woman, given that so much of the criticism of him is very gendered and adjectives usually applied to women who transgress against social norms (hysterical, whiny, bratty, etc.) are often applied to him.
Rackin and Howard's Engendering a Nation pretty much does that explicitly -- they say that Richard "plays the 'woman' to Bolingbroke's 'man'" or something along those lines! And of course there have been a couple of productions that have cross-cast the part -- Fiona Shaw did it almost 20 years ago, and Cate Blanchett more recently
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Probably "All Amiss Employed," in the sense that most of the things in this fic have happened to me at some point (except for the good things and the pregnancy stuff). I basically wrote it as a way of working through some of my issues with the MLA conference, except that nobody has a breakdown in the book exhibit because their career is basically a smoking pit in the ground and they're watching people who belong to a world they'll never really be part of, because that hadn't happened yet when I wrote the fic. (And anyway the fact that they all get jobs is a foregone conclusion because of the premise of that AU.)
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11. If I’m showing off just one of your pieces to someone, which one should it be?
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"You're drunk, Richard," he said, finally. It was, after all, not his first glass this evening. Or his second.
"It's John Donne," Richard said, not looking at Edward.
"You're still drunk."
"This is my ancient..." He waved his hand vaguely in Edward's direction, still focused intently on the ceiling. "This my right hand, and this my left. Well, God's above all, and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved." He leaned forward, looking at Edward now as if he'd never seen him before.
"God, I hate my life," he said. "I hate my life."
And this one from The Ghosts of Departed Quantities:
"We are not going to have sex in your kitchen, Richard," Henry says, as much to head off the anecdote at the pass as anything, as they pause in front of the bedroom door ( ... )
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18. If you could go back and revise one of your older stories, which would it be?
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18. Well, there are bits of prose in my earliest fics that I'd like to clean up, but as far as largish things, let us meet them like necessities was supposed to have another subplot involving ghostly dreamvisits from Anne juxtaposed with Henry's relationship with Joan of Navarre and the what-to-do-with-Isabel dilemma, and I couldn't quite make it work in time for the deadline. I still consider going back and putting it in, every once in a while, because MY GIRLS and because there's no reason I can't actually revise it.
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One of the great regrets of my life is that I'll probably never find myself in a situation where someone will let me do that, although apparently Greg Doran is raiding my brain for casting ideas without my knowledge, so at least there is that.
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12. What WIPs do you have going now? Are you excited about them?
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I’ve had a pretty-much abandoned fic in the pipeline for years which was all about Hotspur's dad!crush on Henry IV, but I've never really written it because I have a lot of trouble writing Hotspur. Especially since in this case he'd be a bit of an unreliable narrator - he wouldn't recognize what was going on internally, but the audience would have to, and when I started it, I didn't really have confidence in my ability to make that clear. Later on (like, recently) a few elements of that fic were absorbed into this one, so I probably won't do it now ( ... )
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The whole premise of it is that a lot of things that were disastrous for Richard in real life might have worked out better for him if he'd been female, because quite a few of the things that were considered fatal flaws in a man were considered forgivable in a woman.
*nods* Yes, I can definitely see that. It seems to me that it can actually be useful to respond to the historiography of Richard rather like you would for a woman, given that so much of the criticism of him is very gendered and adjectives usually applied to women who transgress against social norms (hysterical, whiny, bratty, etc.) are often applied to him.
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Rackin and Howard's Engendering a Nation pretty much does that explicitly -- they say that Richard "plays the 'woman' to Bolingbroke's 'man'" or something along those lines! And of course there have been a couple of productions that have cross-cast the part -- Fiona Shaw did it almost 20 years ago, and Cate Blanchett more recently ( ... )
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