C: Who is your favorite character of your own? Who is your favorite character created by somebody else? Why?
One of the two main characters from the book I'm writing now Xander is probably my favorite. He's one that's been the most vibrant and easy to work with so far and I enjoy seeing what makes him tick. My other favorite character of mine is one that's not in this book but I can't wait to write. He's a magician and...fun.
Nick O'Flaherty is the first one to come to mind, but I honestly have so many favorite characters from different books and shows and movies and comics... it's really hard to narrow it down. He's damn close to the top of the list though. And... he's eerily similar to the pessimistic way I saw my future when I was a teenager.
O: What motivates you to write?
I do it for me. Ever since I first got the idea for my little LT world (and the other ideas I have floating around now in my head) it just hasn't left me alone. Even in the months when I couldn't bring myself to care about anything let alone putting words down or fighting with characters who weren't ready yet...the world and the characters were still there for daydreaming and plotting. So now it's just getting them out of my head so that the type of story I want to be able to read in the m/m genre gets out there, or at least gets finished so that I can read the damn thing.
S: Would you let a stranger off the streets read your first drafts?
In a perfect world where I could, like, leave the draft file up and open on a library computer or something and whoever read it would for sure not go on some homophobic tirade or email themselves the file, change the names to Donna and Xander, two cis heterosexual characters and submit the damn thing to publishers before I get a chance to put it out there myself? Yeah. I... don't actually feel that protective of my drafts so far. At least not as far as sharing bits of them with people. I have a very small group of people whose critiques and notes and reactions mean a great deal to me and I know I want to write the best and most respectable version of the story that I can because I respect the readers of the genre, but I'm not afraid of a stranger reading it, thinking it's crap and losing all my will to write because of it.
But I haven't finished or published the damn thing for real reviews and real stranger reactions yet so who really knows how thick my skin is until that point, right? lol
