Octaves of the Heart Interview with Ascian

Interviews by Fans
Title:	Octaves of the Heart Interview with Ascian
Interviewer:	Octaves of the Heart
Interviewee:	Ascian
Date(s):	2006?
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Buffyverse
External Links:	"online here". Archived from the original on 2007-06-08. (scroll down)
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Octaves of the Heart Interview with Ascian is posted at the Buffy website Octaves.

For others in this series, see Octaves of the Heart Interview Series.

Excerpt

I write fic because when the demon in the back of my head starts feeding me lines, they're very often about Buffy. And Spike. My demon likes BuffyandSpike, sometimes to excess.

Writing is a very reactive process for me. I guess in a way fic is my natural medium, since I've been making up stories to explain the world for as long as I can [remember]. Stories are like air to me, or water, or love. Everything is a story in my head, sooner or later, and it doesn't really matter whether the source material comes from life or from other fiction. Somewhere in the back of my head, I'm always stringing it out across a page.

Unfortunately, I'm also terribly lazy about the whole process, and tend to run away screaming from any part of it that looks like work. So I write when the demon feeds me lines to channel down, and when the well is dry (which is most of the time) I write nothing at all. Despite occasionally sincere efforts, I've never finished anything longer than 10,000 words. Maybe someday. As it is, though, I tend more towards shorter, introspective character-based stuff. I love picking characters apart to see what makes them tick. They break so beautifully.

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I tend to like very evocative writing rather than very plotty writing, though if I can have both I'm a happy camper.