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2010-06-01 07:46:19 ET
Ruin:
1.) It's very...Staten Islandy. Nah, actually it's pretty interesting. It's not just one place as in it doesn't have the feel of just one place. There are neighborhoods that look like villages or some backwoods place in Louisiana (note: I've never been to Louisiana so I'm assuming), there are industrial areas that look like..uhm..industrial areas, and when you're approaching Staten Island on the ferry it tends to look like Italy. Not that I've ever been to Italy but I always thought that that's how the Staten Island shoreline looked like. Imagine my surprise when a friend of mine who has been to Italy made the same comment.
So, uh, in short (seeing how it's taken me a week to write that one answer (cause I've been running around too much)) Staten Island is great because it's like a bunch of places rolled into one ball. The only thing it's missing are skyscrapers.
2.) I don't have a favorite author. I have favorite books but no favorite authors because I haven't read enough of any one writer to say that they're my favorite.. I generally like William Gibson and have read almost all of his works (yes, I know that this contradicts the previous sentence.) except for the Difference Engine (I'm not into steam punk. I'm more into "what could be" instead of "what could have been") and I still haven't finished Spook Country (on my 3rd or 4th attempt at reading it. I remember reading on William Gibson's blog that he didn't like the pacing of the novel. Found it too slow. I see that slowness. His writing is great because it's aesthetically pleasing while generally having a good flow and great ideas and observations.
I also like Pynchon but the only work by him that I have read (and read and read and read and read ad nauseam) is "The Crying of Lot 49". I like it. It's great.
Oh, and my favorite Gibson novels are Count Zero, and Idoru.
Uhm.. Robert Anton Wilson's "The Illuminatus Trilogy". Robert Shea co-wrote that too but I'm only mentioning RAW because I also like his "Schroendinger's Cat Trilogy." and some other general writings by him.
There are others. I just don't remember them at the moment. Oh, Abbie Hoffman. And Grant Morrison.
3.) I write the way I do because I usually have free time on my hands which I use to write. Like when I'm walking to my pick up my girlfriend at her job I start to punch things out on my blackberry (well, actually my work blackberry but whatevers). This is why my writings tend to be short. I type them out as a note on my Blackberry and cut and paste it into SK. Copy and pasta, I mean. Mmmm...pasta.
I do want to sit down and write something of length but so far haven't really done that.
Oh, yeah, so I write because it's fun. I hear it in my head being read to me by myself. As in I figure out a piece of the plot and read it out in my head how I would like it to sound if I read it on paper. The only frustrating part is sometimes not remembering what word to use but then I write crap like "word that means smooth" or something like that. And what's great is saving your old writings and then finding them years later and enjoying them if they're good and rewriting them if they're bad. It's the idea that's important. You have to get that down on paper first and then you have to shape the story to make it look good. The idea and plot is the main thing in my opinion.
RiotGirl, I'll answer your questions in a few min I hope. |
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