Ask the Author: mistyzeo
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Ask the Author: mistyzeo |
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| Interviewee: | mistyzeo |
| Date(s): | November 15, 2011 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview and comments are here, Archived version |
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mistyzeo was interviewed for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
I stumbled into fandom at the wildly impressionable age of 12 with the Lord of the Rings movies. I'd read the books and I sure as shit read them again, and I wallowed in this newly discovered "slash fiction" thing to my little heart's content. I shipped Legolas/Haldir so hard it didn't even make sense. It still doesn't. I moved on from there to Pirates of the Caribbean, and some of those fics can still be found at the bottom of my master post, where they are embarrassing. Harry Potter had me in its grip for a while there, but I mostly read and didn't write as much.I took a small break at the end of high school, but slipped and fell back into fandom when my sister introduced me to Supernatural in early 2009. It was like getting hit in the face with a two-by-four of brotherly love and amazing fangirls. I've never been so in love with a fandom as well as a show. Sherlock Holmes and all its incarnations grabbed me pretty soon after that, so I straddle these two fandoms right now like a Victorian monster-hunting hussy. This past summer I also got sucked in by X-Men: First Class, but that's something I haven't indulged in quite as much since I've got school lurking over my shoulder all the time right now.
Speaking of school, I am a senior in college (shock! awe!), and I'm writing my Anthropology thesis on Polyamory. People ask me what made me want to write about it, or what alerted me to the existence of poly, and I find it very hard to really express to strangers the impression fanfiction has had on my life. I know about poly because I read poly fic like it's my job. I've written a few poly fics and now that I'm given permission to think about it like, 24/7, I have so many more I want to write. Fanfic is the safest, most wonderful way of exploring margins for me, and I love the way that writing gives me permission to learn about things I don't understand.
TL;DR I love fic and I always have. Sometimes I sit in my Advanced Fiction Writing class and think about my big dark secret of being a published writer of gay erotica. It's awesome.
In SPN I write primarily Sam/Dean (or Sam&Dean, but when are they different?) and J2. I write a lot of J2 AUs, because I'm expanding gradually into original writing, but I've got a few non-AUs up my sleeve. My fic lives at onyougo, which you can follow if you want to watch me archive shit until the end of time. Also there will be new fic! And original fic! Yay!
The hardest part of writing a story. Hm. Well, I have no lack of ideas, dear god; I have far too many of those instead and need to calm down. I would say that perhaps in longer stories the hardest part for me is finding the space between the scenes I've already visualized and putting everything in context. In "Aiming," the cop/nurse one, I had a few scenes that I KNEW I wanted to include, but they weren't consecutive, and I had to do a lot of wiggling around to get them into place and the scenes between them written (after the deadline, don't tell Wendy). Another issue I have is that I tend to need my stories to be at the very least fully imagined before I begin, if not lightly outlined. You may or may not have noticed, but I don't participate in comment memes very much. I LOVE comment memes, but I just can't think that fast. I need to sleep on a fic, roll it around in my head, think about it while I'm walking to class, before I can produce anything. I think this results in (brushing off my shoulders) pretty decent fic that has a heart as well as an orgasm, but it sure limits my spontaneous playtime.