Ask the Author: causeways

Interviews by Fans
Title:	Ask the Author: causeways
Interviewer:
Interviewee:	causeways (Kelly)
Date(s):	August 7, 2008
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Supernatural
External Links:	interview and comments are here, Archived version
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causeways was interviewed for Supernatural Roundtable.

Some Excerpts

I got into the Harry Potter fandom in 2001, where I mostly lurked, although I occasionally wrote some het and cowrote a rather astonishingly long Harry/Draco fic. By this past March I'd gotten pretty bored with HP, so it's a good thing that that's when I finally discovered Supernatural by way of J2 AUs. I was instantly hooked. Hotass brothers with guns and sexual tension who drive around the country killing supernatural things! What's not to love?

I've been writing SPN fic ever since I caught up on S2 towards the middle of April. With the exception of a couple of short gen pieces and a J2 AU for spn_harlequin, everything I've written has been Sam/Dean, but I can also be a big fan of the boys with OMCs and am planning on giving that a try pretty soon.

As far as my fic goes, I've got a lot of love for The Placement of Water and Lead, which was my first Supernatural fic. The Green River County Detention Center Experiment (Being Wrong Is a Bitch) was the easiest fic to write, in addition to having the longest title. Apparently it's really easy to make Dean be Sam's prison bitch. Somehow I'm not surprised. My two favorite fics, though, are my Evil!Sam fics, which go together: The Last Fifty Miles and The Rule of Three.

I almost always write in a linear fashion. I don't often know just how a story's going to end when I start writing it -- and even when I think I do, I tend to change my mind -- so writing linearly helps me figure that out. Every few thousand words or so, I stop and hash out an outline, usually of events rather than scenes, although sometimes I can tell from that where scenes are going to begin and end, and I often include certain lines / bits of dialogue I know are going to be in that part of the story. If I know a story's going to be short, I don't usually bother to outline, but even then I jot down notes to myself about what's coming next or how it's going to end, just so I don't forget.