Ask the Author: flipmontigirl
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Ask the Author: flipmontigirl |
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| Interviewee: | flipmontigirl (Anna) |
| Date(s): | May 11, 2007 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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flipmontigirl was interviewed for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
I've been writing since I learned how to, which doesn't mean that the outcome has always been good. I've written crap and I've written decent stuff and sometimes I've even managed to write some good stuff. All my writing efforts preceding SPN cannot be found on-line anymore (thank God!). What can be found on-line is all here.The best stuff I've written... hasn't been written yet. I do have a couple of favourites, though (here, here, and here). If you'd like to read more about my favourites (and the reasons why they're favourites), you can go here.
The worst story I've ever written (the boy who fell) is also the one that got the most comments.
"Boy who fell" is full of good intentions. I set out to do something, to tell a story and in the end I did tell it. What I'm unhappy about is how I told it. Back then I was still striving: I kept writing Dean, I desperately wanted to write him, but I didn't know how. I asked myself at every word who is this guy? and my answer was always the same: I don't know. That's my biggest problem with that fic: I've written a stranger. Dean Winchester (as I think I know him now) is NOT that boy falling in love over and over again with the wrong people until the right one comes along. Dean Winchester is something, someone else and I've found him now, I think, and I also know it was that story that sent me on my way to find him.Technically, there's too much telling in that story. It's all, Character A is like this, this and that; character B, on the other hand, is like this; together, they do this, and this is the way they go about doing it.
I'm not sure why people liked "boy who fell" so much. It could be the ending, the last line especially. I think I nailed that part, in the sense that it was considerably better than all the rest, there was some truth in it, something real about it. Or it could be that it's a bittersweet story with a happy(ish) ending. I don't know.
I believe a writer is always right about her stories, a writer knows in her gut if what she's written is good, so nobody will ever convince me that "boy who fell" is anything other than what I think it is. But I also believe that words don't belong to the writer alone, he might have the last word on them (so to speak), but he gives them up to people and people can do what they wish with them. What I'm trying to say is that maybe you, and all the others, see something in that story that I wasn't able to, will never be able to. So maybe I can ask you to tell me what it is in "boy who fell" that you like so much. :)