5 questions again
Oct. 18th, 2018 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
1. What do you think about when you're swimming?
Not a whole lot, which is kind of the point. I'm always counting lanes, but other than that I will occasionally brainstorm plot ideas but mostly I recite poems to myself. Currently I'm working on learning Brassens' Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète -- I find it quite comforting, especially "Et qu'au moins, si ses vers valent mieux que les miens, / Mon cimetière soit plus marin que le sien" ("And at least, if his verses are better than mine" / "My graveyard more than his be marine").
2. If you could have one celebrity narrate your life, who would you choose?
That is not something I've ever considered before, I have to admit. Dessa? My life would be greatly improved by some sick rhymes.
3. What superpower would you least want to be stuck with?
Telepathy. Everyone should be allowed some privacy.
4. What did you want to be when you grew up as a child? Did you stick with that goal or did your interests change as you got older?
I wanted to be a dinosaur. I'm still working on it.
5. What story have you always wanted to write?
Good question. I don't think there's a story I've always wanted to write. I do have one story that's Mine as in if I could only write one, it would have to be that one. It's the one I call "the desert novel" around these parts. I don't know. One day, the better part of a decade ago, it dropped almost fully formed into my head -- we're talking, main characters, concept, worldbuilding, plot, ending and a handful of specific scenes, nincluding the ending. It's like I'm an archeologist at a dig and it's lying there, waiting for me to uncover it and do it justice. I've written a first draft of it, but it's not There yet.
Not a whole lot, which is kind of the point. I'm always counting lanes, but other than that I will occasionally brainstorm plot ideas but mostly I recite poems to myself. Currently I'm working on learning Brassens' Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète -- I find it quite comforting, especially "Et qu'au moins, si ses vers valent mieux que les miens, / Mon cimetière soit plus marin que le sien" ("And at least, if his verses are better than mine" / "My graveyard more than his be marine").
2. If you could have one celebrity narrate your life, who would you choose?
That is not something I've ever considered before, I have to admit. Dessa? My life would be greatly improved by some sick rhymes.
3. What superpower would you least want to be stuck with?
Telepathy. Everyone should be allowed some privacy.
4. What did you want to be when you grew up as a child? Did you stick with that goal or did your interests change as you got older?
I wanted to be a dinosaur. I'm still working on it.
5. What story have you always wanted to write?
Good question. I don't think there's a story I've always wanted to write. I do have one story that's Mine as in if I could only write one, it would have to be that one. It's the one I call "the desert novel" around these parts. I don't know. One day, the better part of a decade ago, it dropped almost fully formed into my head -- we're talking, main characters, concept, worldbuilding, plot, ending and a handful of specific scenes, nincluding the ending. It's like I'm an archeologist at a dig and it's lying there, waiting for me to uncover it and do it justice. I've written a first draft of it, but it's not There yet.
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Date: 2018-10-18 10:34 pm (UTC)There's a life goal with promise!
Good luck with your desert novel.
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