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mhalachaiswords

Getting to Know You (trivia time!)

Mar 07, 2008 09:44

Hey everybody!

Hi Dr. Nick!
There's a lot of new people who have friended me in the last little while, and it's been a bit since I have talked to a lot of you, so:

IF you recently friended me
THEN Tell me a bit about why you are here, what it is you are reading of mine, and how you found meAND/OR ( Read more... )

open thread, opinions

Comments 54

ffutures March 7 2008, 18:44:25 UTC

Damned if I can remember, I'm afraid. Presumably I had a reason - fanfic probably.

mhalachaiswords March 8 2008, 04:09:39 UTC

It's all about the fanfic, true :)

dotty8608 March 7 2008, 18:50:22 UTC

It's been a pretty long while since I friended you, and I honestly cannot remember what exactly prompted it. I think it was probably Inevitable. Or maybe one of your other AB crossovers. But the reason I've stayed reading your lj is because you seem to be a very interesting person, and I like interesting people!

Hmmm, I kinda want to ask a trivia question about one of your fics, but I'm terrible at them! Here goes: In Dawning Light, will any other BtVS characters be showing up?

mhalachaiswords March 7 2008, 18:52:52 UTC

*g* I like being seen as interesting. Mostly I think it's the coffee, tho ;)

As for the trivia, the answer is yes.

...

And by "yes", I mean that we will see *one* BtVS character show up at a time when Dawn has given up all hope on that regard. And in an interesting manner, I must say. How helpful is that?

dotty8608 March 7 2008, 19:45:24 UTC

Well, now you've gone and made me all curious! *grins*

mhalachaiswords March 8 2008, 04:10:10 UTC

The whole point of non-spoilery tidbits is to whet the appetite :D

ficlefemale March 7 2008, 18:59:47 UTC

Old friend, new journal. I'm here to worship at the altar of your genius. I'm currently reading... Hmm... Everything. And I believe i found you on TtH.

Trivia: Will you write a Torchwood/Inevitable crossover, you know that little tarot girl could be Elsa. Please?

mhalachaiswords March 8 2008, 04:28:56 UTC

No worshipping allowed here! only wacky 'shipping ;)

I want to write an Inevitable/Torchwood crossover, but I can't bring myself to imagine Little Girl as Elsa. However, I can see Elsa considering Cpt. Jack Harkness as a very useful tool (ahem) in her drive to support Christoff in London. And it occurs to me that I seriously need to write that Elsa backstory.

So. Where was I? Oh yes, I've got a lovely idea for Little Girl's backstory, in a crossover way. I do enjoy strange characters :)

ficlefemale March 9 2008, 18:46:43 UTC

Yay. I'm waiting with bated breath. I love your strange crossover ways. And worshipping will continue as long as you deserve it. *Swans of to light candles on your altar*

takarameri March 7 2008, 19:47:12 UTC

I'm relatively new but I started by reading your Anita Blake Crossovers on TTH and then moved on to reading pretty much everything you write including a couple of fandoms that I don't really know anything about (Gilmore Girls and Blood Ties).

mhalachaiswords March 8 2008, 06:00:27 UTC

Those Anita Blake crossovers... that was my main fandom for many years. I've drifted away from it recently but those old stories hold a place in my heart.

And a sense of guilt when I think about Inevitable.

And thanks for taking a chance with unknown fandoms! I have actually discovered some lovely fandoms by reading stuff by fave authors :)

takarameri March 8 2008, 08:33:57 UTC

Fanfiction was my introduction to Anita Blake too(followed by an obsession with the books). Possibly even Mind the Gap and/or Dawning Light...

silverblade219 March 7 2008, 20:07:54 UTC

I found you through a rec for Physics of the Spin, which I started reading because even though I only saw a couple episodes of each show, I love crossovers and was kind of bored that day and was curious how you pulled off this crossover into making sense. I liked your writing style and then went to Dawning Light, which I fell in love with. Then I found your LJ and found the trivia on Inevitable and got curious about that and started reading that too... so now I've gone back and read pretty much everything you have writen...(the Firefly crossover with AB is one of my favorites of the ones you finished, with Balancing Act)

I do have trivia questions to ask, but as I'm in the school right now and has a paper for history to due today and its the middle of midterms week, I can't remember it right now...Can I get back to you on that?

mhalachaiswords March 8 2008, 18:23:31 UTC

I love your icon so much.

I have to admit, sometimes it's hard to make a crossover make sense (and some days I wonder if I pull it off after all) but that's why I like crossovers so much -- it's more of a challenge to make the worlds work together.

Ask anything you want, whenever. I'll be here all week :)

silverblade219 March 16 2008, 05:17:42 UTC

Isn't it cute? Dawn and Tara are my favorite characters from BtVS.

Okay, so when you are writing a story, how much do you plan/plot-out before hand and by what time do you usually have an idea where the ending is going? As for Inevitable, you've meantioned that you orginally had a completely different beginning writen out. How different would the story have been, and after that how much has the ending changed on the way of writing the story?