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July 25, 2007

The Great Interview! -1-

All right, so here are the lucky first two questions from The Great Interview! Why lucky? I don't know really, I just wanted to use that word. :D

Firstly, this extremely complicated yet though provoking question from wolf.in.flesh:
"Imagine the entire world is the opposite of what it is today. The sky is green, grass is blue, water gives off a purple color, and outerspace is completely white with red stars. The sun is highly deadly, so everyone must be inside while it is out -- which means we sleep during the day and go out at night. However, all writings done previously, presently, and that will be done in the future are exactly the same. Shakespeare still talks about the dawn. Harry Potter is still set to release on July 21. Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter still walk through a wardrobe. Writings, books, movies, all the stories are the same. In this world, you are trapped, and yet it is what your mind makes of it. So this is your world. However, you remember the world as it really is today: blue sky, green grass, healty sun (sorta), black space -- all the same as it is now. You have a choice: You can either survive this new world and take your chances here with all the stories the same, or you can go back to the normal world you remember, with a catch: The stories would not stay the same. They would be changed. How drastically changed, you don't know. If you stay in the new world, you would always remember what it was like to walk in the sun, but no one else would remember it. If you choose the old world, you risk every piece of writing that has or will ever grace the paper. Which do you choose?"

Katherine (siriuswriter): Whew. What a question!! I am so going to stay in the new world. I've been reading since before kindergarten - I can remember the teacher asking me to read out loud to my classmates in my younger grades. Reading (and writing) are such a huge part of my life - I hope to be a novelist someday, or at least work in some aspect of the writing business - be a critic, a columnist... just something to do with writing.
Also, books have had a huge impact on my life. I read a lot of, well I suppose you would call them "deep" books, and I've read a couple of books that have changed the way I see the world - The Posionwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is coming to mind. That book is absolutely one of my favorites; it really made me examine my own life, and make some drastic changes to it. Some other books that have made me who I am today are East of Eden by John Steinbeck, and The History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb, as well as several books by John Irving. He's really been an influence to my own writing style, I feel.
I am a huge reader, really I'll read anything and everything with words (so long as it's fiction :) I will stray into nonfiction sometimes, but it has to be interesting. I usually go for a biography or autobiography.) Books and words have gotten me through the difficult parts of my life. So yes, I'd have to stay in this "alternate" world. Writing fanfiction has been a terrific base point for my beginning to branch out and write original fiction - I am even beginning work on a novel (which will not be posted anywhere online, sorry. I just need to protect my precious novel baby with all the power I possess :D)
If I were to come back to "regular" world, there's no telling how the books that I have come to regard as old friends would have changed, and I would be a different person having not read many of the things that I have. I would probably be a less mature person, a less sympathetic and empathetic person.
Plus, I would be a very, very stressed-out person. :)

The next question comes from ebilnutcracker :
"What are you afraid of?"

Katherine (siriuswriter) : Don't worry, that's not a lame question at all! I always love to find out quirky things about people. :)
Well, this is rather a strange one, but I have a phobia about wax dolls, and other sorts of figures which look like they ought to be alive, but really aren't. I don't know what it is about those things, they just give me the major shivers. I was in San Antonio a couple of years ago, and they have a wax museum there. Most of my family (some extended family were there as well) went inside, but I made my dad stay on the corner of the street that was catty-corner to the museum. Those things just scare the bejeezus out of me.
I think my greatest fear that's not something frivolous like wax dolls (:D) is the fear of being rejected by those I love. I actually have nightmares about that sometimes; you know, I'll be fighting an epic battle or something, and everyone turns against me, and I'll be shouting and shouting, trying to explain why the side I'm on is right, and the other side is evil (it is an epic battle after all, good vs. evil :)) and all my friends and family just won't listen to me. So I guess that's another fear of mine - not being understood by those I love. I could care less if you agree or disagree with me, but I am afraid of people just not even listening. I have quite a strange variety of life experiences, and I try very hard to explain what's going on in my life to other people. I suppose I'm scared that they won't understand how my hardships have made me the person I am today, or will just reject me and not listen anyway. So yes, I'm terrified of rejection by those I love. I stress the "those I love" part; because I don't give a rat's ass if you don't understand me and I don't know you. You know, that sort of gossipy type of rejection doesn't bother me. But if I know a person really well... I guess I've faced rejection a lot in my life, so I know how crappy it feels, and sometimes I feel like I'm walking on eggshells, or not showing the true me, even to my best friends, because I'm afraid of the rejection.
Whew. I hope I answered your question, from the silly to the more serious. :)

Keep those questions coming everyone! And remember, you can always ask a question of any character from any of my stories. Just keep in mind that if it's a story in progress and you ask about the future, like asking what someone was thinking when they did something, and I haven't revealed that in the story yet, I will give some hints, but I obviously won't reveal everything straight out. I'm actually looking forward to some of those tough questions for characters - I'm surprised no one has asked about anyone from Crimson yet... :) :)

Well, that's it for now. :)

siriusly,
Katherine

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