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sun_set_bravelyHer questions:
1. Have you taken many writing classes and if so, does one stand out as a particularly valuable class?
2. If you wanted to be alone in NYC, are there any public places you would go to do that?
3. Have you ever struck up a conversation with a stranger and felt instantly connected? What happened?
4. How do you find your stories?
5. What were you like at 15?
I'm hiding this to save the sanity of my LJ friends' friends pages.
1. Have you taken many writing classes and if so, does one stand out as a particularly valuable class?
I've only taken three writing classes, all of them in college: two playwriting classes and one creative writing class. The creative writing class was most valuable, not necessarily because of the work I produced, but because of the authors introduced to me. The critique/feedback part of the class was slow and painful, simply because so few people (myself sometimes included) know how to discuss writing in a way that's useful to the writer. And this class was full of quiet liberal arts students who had a hard enough time speaking loudly enough to be heard. Trying to get them to discuss a poem about someone's abusive childhood felt downright dangerous.
2. If you wanted to be alone in NYC, are there any public places you would go to do that?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a cemetary, my front stoop, Fort Greene Park.
(After I thought of these places, I realized that my definition of "alone" is more emotional, rather than actual. Because of course there are people milling around the Met, but I find a public solitude there. I think this is what you were asking.)
3. Have you ever struck up a conversation with a stranger and felt instantly connected? What happened?
He came to England and we fell in love.
4. How do you find your stories?
I haven't written a story myself since I finished the NaNoWriMo novel in November, because I've been working on adapting someone else's story since then. Now that that project is coming to a pausing point, this is a question I've been asking myself a lot recently. How do I start a new story, a new project? I've come up with these answers: The ones that stick with me, that I feel good reading over and over, often find me, from that wonderful place of breathing-in that so many artists describe. Sometimes, different pieces of myself collide with other input and erupt into fiction.
5. What were you like at 15?
I was at the tail end of my dreaming phase, my romantic phase. My parents had just gotten divorced, and my sister and I were living in a new home with our mother. I still wrote letters to my best friend from imagined exotic places, but our games and dreams were starting to feel stale, and silly. I still dreamed of meeting and marrying a movie star, but I started believing the people who told me I'd never do it. I was dramatic, quiet, shy, sad. I was uncomfortable in my body. I listened to the radio, and a lot of Tori Amos.
And now I ask you: does anyone want me to interview them? Please reply with a simple "interview me."
1. Have you taken many writing classes and if so, does one stand out as a particularly valuable class?
2. If you wanted to be alone in NYC, are there any public places you would go to do that?
3. Have you ever struck up a conversation with a stranger and felt instantly connected? What happened?
4. How do you find your stories?
5. What were you like at 15?
I'm hiding this to save the sanity of my LJ friends' friends pages.
1. Have you taken many writing classes and if so, does one stand out as a particularly valuable class?
I've only taken three writing classes, all of them in college: two playwriting classes and one creative writing class. The creative writing class was most valuable, not necessarily because of the work I produced, but because of the authors introduced to me. The critique/feedback part of the class was slow and painful, simply because so few people (myself sometimes included) know how to discuss writing in a way that's useful to the writer. And this class was full of quiet liberal arts students who had a hard enough time speaking loudly enough to be heard. Trying to get them to discuss a poem about someone's abusive childhood felt downright dangerous.
2. If you wanted to be alone in NYC, are there any public places you would go to do that?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a cemetary, my front stoop, Fort Greene Park.
(After I thought of these places, I realized that my definition of "alone" is more emotional, rather than actual. Because of course there are people milling around the Met, but I find a public solitude there. I think this is what you were asking.)
3. Have you ever struck up a conversation with a stranger and felt instantly connected? What happened?
He came to England and we fell in love.
4. How do you find your stories?
I haven't written a story myself since I finished the NaNoWriMo novel in November, because I've been working on adapting someone else's story since then. Now that that project is coming to a pausing point, this is a question I've been asking myself a lot recently. How do I start a new story, a new project? I've come up with these answers: The ones that stick with me, that I feel good reading over and over, often find me, from that wonderful place of breathing-in that so many artists describe. Sometimes, different pieces of myself collide with other input and erupt into fiction.
5. What were you like at 15?
I was at the tail end of my dreaming phase, my romantic phase. My parents had just gotten divorced, and my sister and I were living in a new home with our mother. I still wrote letters to my best friend from imagined exotic places, but our games and dreams were starting to feel stale, and silly. I still dreamed of meeting and marrying a movie star, but I started believing the people who told me I'd never do it. I was dramatic, quiet, shy, sad. I was uncomfortable in my body. I listened to the radio, and a lot of Tori Amos.
And now I ask you: does anyone want me to interview them? Please reply with a simple "interview me."
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Date: 2003-06-06 01:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-08 12:06 pm (UTC)2) What do you prefer to write with? (computer, typewriter, pen, pencil, etc.) Do you find that your writing changes with the different mediums?
3) Have you ever seen the Sesame Street movie "Don't Eat the Pictures"?
4) Tell me more about your internship in Union Square. When was it, what was it for, what was the most important thing you learned from it?
5) What smell gives you great comfort?
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Date: 2003-06-06 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-08 12:06 pm (UTC)2) What is your greatest hope for your marriage to Brett?
3) I'm fascinated with the year that you took to be alone after a bad break-up. How did you discipline yourself to follow through with that? How do you think your life would be different if you hadn't given yourself that time?
4) Why did you first begin a LiveJournal? What did you hope to get out of it?
5) Take me to your favorite Tex-Mex restaurant. (I'll pick up the bill.) What do you order, and what do you recommend to me? (Can you tell I miss my native food??)
Re:
Date: 2003-06-08 04:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-06 01:44 pm (UTC)Okay, interview me. Thanks!
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Date: 2003-06-08 12:07 pm (UTC)2) Our neighbors growing up had a beagle named Bowser, who repeatedly got herself into car accidents. It probably had a lot to do with her family, but I've also heard that beagles tend to be slightly stupid dogs. Is this true?
3) What color is your hair?
4) How did you first become interested in clowning? Who is a clown
whose work you deeply respect?
5) Those candy heart icons that you have -- where do people have those made? They crack me up.
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Date: 2003-06-08 02:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-06 02:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-08 12:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-06 09:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-08 12:08 pm (UTC)2) What have you enjoyed most about this Shower Meme that's going
around? What have you learned about your LJ friends?
3) Whose LiveJournal that you read is most closely linked to your own? What links the two of you?
4) I'm a relatively new reader of your LJ, and I'm not sure who Mattie is to you. Do you mind explaining, in however little or much detail you're comfortable with?
5) How do you decide to write about events in your life, past or
present? Do they overtake you, is it a conscious effort to describe them? Tell me about your writing process.
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Date: 2003-06-07 01:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-08 12:09 pm (UTC)2) If you could go back in time and say one thing to someone in your life, would you, and what would it be?
3) What is your favorite thing/person/happening to photograph? Why?
4) Forget the FDA. What are your four personal food groups?
5) What music do you put on when you want to wallow in sadness? Before you go out dancing? When you're seducing a new lover? When you're getting over a break-up?
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Date: 2003-06-09 01:51 pm (UTC)interview: go.
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Date: 2003-06-09 02:26 pm (UTC)2) You're at the peak of your acting career. I offer you the chance to play whatever role you would like to play. What is it? And is it in film, theatre, or what?
3) If you could change one thing about your physical self, what would it be, if anything?
4) If money was not an issue, would you maintain two homes in different parts of the world? If so, what two cities would you choose?
5) What's your middle name?
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Date: 2003-06-24 10:30 am (UTC)1.yes. lets skip the bad story and some bad acting,(thought some moments i liked), but the footage was incredible. when i saw it a second time, i just enjoyed getting sucked into the little story. wicked fun.
2. wow.. ive been thinking about this question for the last few weeks and im still unsure.
right now, id like to believe in acting on film. but lets face it, theatre is where the acting really comes out..
right now, one of my fav all time characters is lester from american beauty. a role like that would be amazing.
something like that.
3. honestly, i dont really care for my side profiles. the forehead and chins bug me. not sure what id change..
4.i havent really travelled out of the U.S. so im not sure where id like a second home to be.
so right now, id like a place in cali and a place in texas.
5. alexander
can i still ask u some stuff?
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Date: 2003-06-26 05:28 pm (UTC)And you should post these answers in your journal, so your friends can ask to be interviewed, too.
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Date: 2003-06-29 11:57 am (UTC)1. as a feminist, do u enjoy any kind of pornography at all--on any other level than comedic?
2.what gift have u wanted for a long time, but hope that someone will figure it out without you having to tell them?
3.what songs do u want played at your funeral?
4. what embarrasses you in a good way?
5. any names picked out for your kids(assuming you want kids)?