The OWL Awards Interview with Bambu
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| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | The OWL Awards Interview with Bambu |
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| Interviewee: | Bambu |
| Date(s): | April 27, 2008 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Harry Potter |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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In 2008, Bambu was interviewed for the 3rd annual OWL Awards.
Some Excerpts
In the Potterverse, the very first story I read was "Letter from an Exile one Merciful Morning." I was blown away.
Yes. [SS/HG] was my first ship and remains my first love in this fandom. I was incredibly intimidated by the pure literacy of the story. And then I next found, 'Falling Farther In'. Needless to say, I was really intimidated. However, I hungered for more. And I read everything I could find.
It's been my experience that the better authors write the odd couples... I wish I could say the lofty bit 'that I was inspired by the best of the genre,' but I'm afraid I wasn't. Not having a clue how to write prose—I'd never written a creative story... but when I stumbled upon five or six truly dreadful stories, I thought... I could do better than this. I itched to give it a try.
Do you know ... after I wrote the very first scene I ever posted, I was terrified to hit that 'send' button. I sat in front of my laptop for three hours agonizing about it. But then I decided that no one really knew me in real life, and if it was horrible, I could just fade into the woodwork and no one but me would know.... After my story posted, I sat up all night long until the very first review came in. It was positive and encouraging, and I was incredibly relieved. I was so giddy I called UberGeek (my husband) at work to squeal happily in the phone.
[my first story]: I posted at Ashwinder, which was Lord and Lady Snape in those days, and it was ‘Revealing Moments.’I have learned so much since then. One of my new hobbies is to buy grammar books—I had no idea where the punctuation went for dialogue—I didn't even know what a dialogue tag properly was.
Regrettably, I have taken it down. There's a reason for that.
Lady Tuesday was a writer in SS/HG at the time—she's still an infrequent poster—but in one of her stories there is a scene in which Hermione impulsively kisses Snape because he saves her from being hurt when she falls from a ladder. I was really intrigued by the dynamics of the pair and seized by that moment as a starting point for a story.
With her permission I used it to delve into the aftermath of Hermione's reactions. However, I've taken the story down because it wasn't really based on my own idea.