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dianethx Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 4/5/07 5:53pm Subject: RE: Interviews with Authors version 4.0 - interview with TKeira_Lea!! - Date Edited: 4/5/07 5:59pm (1 edits total) Edited By: dianethx
	Somebody please fix the scrolling!!! Edit - thanks!!! TKL - great interview. Lots of insight as to what really interests you and where you are going in future stories. I'm not a Jag fan (one way or another) but you are certainly passionate about him and I think that's great. Passion is good when it comes to writing. Loved your writing tips. Have a beginning? Great. But make sure you have an end. Too often I see people putting up story after story and never finishing. That’s because there was never an ending to begin with. A lack of ending equals a lack of direction. Often those stories slow to a grind or never reach completion at all. Got a beginning and an end? Think through the middle. Make sure your idea isn’t just a wild fantasy but really a story. Find a beta. A story with minimal flaws is easier to read and stay interested in. In the end though, write for yourself. Great job and great questions. Kudos to both of you. -----signature----- Betrayal - http://boards.theforce.net/s/b1/10935143 updated 9/22/08 Fragments of Illusion- http://boards.theforce.net/bts/b10475/28456473 updated 11/20/08 jedidas3's Master At last - Hope for our country
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MirandaFair Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 4/5/07 7:34pm Subject: RE: Interviews with Authors version 4.0 - interview with TKeira_Lea!!
	I promised myself the first chance I had to sit and read through all the interviews I'd do it! I'm so glad I did. It's fantastic reading about respected authors here on the boards. Seeing YodaKenobi, Souderwan, DarthIshtar, Knight_Aragorn and TKeira_Lea's interviews gives even more insight into each of their writing processes and influences. I love learning more about authors who work I admire! Wonderful job with the latest. A great glimpse into TKL! I find her life fascinating. -----signature----- May the Muse be with you.
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padawanlost Registered: Apr '06	Date Posted: 4/5/07 11:31pm Subject: RE: Interviews with Authors version 4.0 - interview with TKeira_Lea!!
	Great interview TKL Amen to Jaina getting to be the hero, and I have to agree with you about the NJO- not everyone lives happily ever after. Great advice, especially about the droids. I like your theory on why Zekk left in Dark Journey too. I can respect self preservation a little more than I can accept someone being too frightened to save their friend-especially when the friend risked herself to bring him back from the Dark side. Good luck with the riding and the other writing, but It's good to see that we have a lot more to look forward to here as well. -----signature----- e-married to rebel_cheese , so read his stuff or else Padawan of NYCitygurl Proud member of Charon Force. Check out our NJO AU: http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/27537567/p1/?23
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oldjedinurse Registered: Oct '03	Date Posted: 4/6/07 7:39am Subject: RE: Interviews with Authors version 4.0 - interview with TKeira_Lea!!
	Catching up, again! Fascinating, informative interviews, oqidaun and TKL. oldj -----signature----- Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
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TKeira_Lea Registered: Oct '02	Date Posted: 4/6/07 10:28am Subject: RE: Interviews with Authors version 4.0 - interview with TKeira_Lea!!
	Thanks to Nat for getting the thread rolling again. I didn't realize how long ago I actually did that interview. I have added two new members to my family since then: a new dog - Diva - and a new horse - Ganner (yes, after the Jedi ). Hugs to Souderwan for asking most of the tough questions. He did have a little help from Lex too. So hats off to both of them. And thanks to everyone who's read and commented. -----signature----- http://www.lominalecantina.com character often lies in contradiction ~ jfostrander01 Wingman - a post LotF fic http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/28548970/p1/?219
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YodaKenobi Title: TFN EU Staff Registered: May '03	Date Posted: 4/7/07 2:37pm Subject: RE: Interviews with Authors version 4.0 - interview with TKeira_Lea!!
	Great interview, TKL & Souderwan Very insightful. -----signature----- FADA Therapist The Lands of the Dead: http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/28522077/p1/ Blood Trail: http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/28636429/p1 "We're Jedi, not assassins."— Anakin Solo
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LadyPadme Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Sep '02	Date Posted: 4/7/07 10:46pm Subject: RE: Interviews with Authors version 4.0 - interview with TKeira_Lea!!
	Great interview, TKL. And great job with the questions, Souderwan! -----signature----- Crest MD Naimé Evil Twin of Gabri_Jade When a baby smiles the world is happy VOTE OBAMA '08
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Gabri_Jade Title: Fan Fiction Archive Editor Emeritus Registered: Nov '02	Date Posted: 4/7/07 10:52pm Subject: RE: Interviews with Authors version 4.0 - interview with TKeira_Lea!!
	Great interview, Kia. So, when can we expect more Mara-ness from you? Keeper of the Siege is just begging to be updated. -----signature----- Evil Twin of LadyPadme This concept of "wuv" confuses and infuriates us! - Futurama All I can do is be me. Whoever that is. -Bob Dylan The Space Between Heartbeats - L/M AU vig http://boards.theforce.net/b/b1/28870280 !!11!1eleventy
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Bale Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 4/10/07 4:34am Subject: RE: Interviews with Authors version 4.0 - interview with TKeira_Lea!!
	Very insightful interviews. Great job everyone. -----signature----- Missing scene: Vader in the meditation chamber: http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/26817395/p1/?4 Decoy teaser trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvDksDPJoyk
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FFAuthorInterviews Registered: Apr '06	Date Posted: 4/11/07 1:26pm Subject: RE: Interviews with Authors version 4.0 - interview with TKeira_Lea!!
	Just a riminder: if you have suggestions of people to be interviewed, please PM this sock. If you would like to become an interviewer, PM the sock as well. If you suggest someone to interview and want to do just that interview, that's fine If you don't see your name on the list of upcoming interviews but you're in the process of being interviewed, it's because your name won't go on the list until the final copy of the interview has been sent to me. The future interviews well go in the order listed on that page. -----signature----- Know a fanfic author you think should be interviewed? PM this sock. Willing to conduct a fanfic author interview? PM this sock. Questions about fanfic author interviews? PM this sock.
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NYCitygurl Title: Manager of SFFBC, C&G, and NSWFF Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 4/16/07 12:49pm Subject: RE: Interviews with Authors version 4.0 - interview with JediNemesis!! - Date Edited: 4/18/07 2:22pm (1 edits total) Edited By: NYCitygurl
	JediNemesis interview by NYCitygurl. JediNemesis is an absolutely excellent author. She's well-known around Fan Fic for being able to play with the emotions of her readers and for her brilliant and memorable style. Can you give us some background information about yourself? I'm the eldest of five kids and am currently on my gap year. So far I've worked for four months, been to Australia (I'm a dual English-Australian national and have a ton of relatives down under), written a novel (well . . . sort of), and built a shed. I've just started driving lessons and this summer I'll be working as a steward at the Globe Theatre - it's unpaid, but I do get to see the plays for free, which is a boon to a broke Shakespeare junkie like myself. In September I'll be going to university to study English Literature, which I am looking forward to immensely as it gives me a valid excuse to know far too much about poetry and go to the theatre a lot. Aside from an ongoing quest to see all of Shakespeare's plays (23 so far, including nine in the last eight months) my main time-wasting activities are reading, writing, movies and archery. How did you get into Star Wars? A bit of research could probably pinpoint this to the hour. It was in August of 1999, the first or second week of the month, and I and my little sister and my dad were in Australia visiting his aunts, uncles, cousins and so on. We were staying a couple of nights with some friends of my dad's who live in Dubbo, a medium-sized place in rural New South Wales, and dad's friend mentioned casually that he would be taking their munchkin to "the new Star Wars film" and did we want to come too? As it happened, I'd just found their stash of Terry Pratchett books and emphatically did not want to come too. I practically had to be dragged to the multiplex, sulked through the trailers, and was still sulking when the Fox logo came up. Two and a half hours later, I came out of the cinema making lightsaber noises and convinced that it was the greatest movie I'd ever seen. I never looked back. AOTC didn't do it as much for me, regardless of my seeing it three times at the cinema, and I went through a bit of a lull. ROTS blew my mind, though, and back to the boards I duly came, keyboard buzzing. Since then I've been around most of the time, on and off. When did you start writing fanfic? Between TPM and AOTC, when I didn't even know what fanfic was, I wrote a 52-page story about the fall of Anakin Skywalker and the birth of Darth Vader. I've still got the typescript knocking around in my room somewhere; bits of it are actually okay considering I was 12. The oddest thing about it, in retrospect, is that I could use words like "dispassionate" and "impetuous", but entirely failed to take into account the existence of Luke and Leia. Padmé and Anakin barely spoke in this fic. Immaculate conception, anyone? I also wrote part of a truly bizarre Star Wars musical. Thankfully it never got finished. I bibbled quietly along until June of 2003, three months after I'd signed up here, when I posted my first-ever vignette; that's what I think of as 'proper' fanfic as it were, when I knew what it was I was writing. How did you find the JC? Have you posted fanfic elsewhere? I can't remember how I found TFN, but I was a regular on the (now defunct?) TFN Humour page ages ago, and found the Archive from clicking on the sidebar links. From the Archive there were links to the boards, but I never followed them because frankly it all looked a bit complicated and scary. Then I posted a comment to dianethx's story But... in the Archive, saying it deserved a continuation, and she emailed me back with the link to Betrayal. I joined up in March 2003 just to reply to that story (and have been following it fairly faithfully ever since ). The only things posted elsewhere than TFN are a couple of drabbles posted on a board set up by a group of JCers. I don't know if it's still extant. I've never been to fanfiction.net or any of the other major websites . . . these boards have generally been more than enough for my modest needs. Do you write non-Star Wars fanfic or original fiction of any sort? If the latter, do you have plans to get published? SW is the only fandom I've written in, although I did write fragments of an epic poem that's such a heinous and transparent Tolkien ripoff it should probably count as fanfic. I've written a few pieces of original fiction - two short stories for the SFFBC writing contests, Memories of Fire and Absolution, various fragments in the universes of those two stories, a lot of random bits and pieces, and my attempt for last year's National Novel Writing Month, Tier City. I had an absolute ball writing that last, but it's nowhere near finished even though I made 50K with eight days to spare. I've been meaning to go over Absolution for ages - tidy it up, rewrite the ending, and put all the bits I had to cut out back in - and maybe send it to Solaris or another sci-fi imprint; it has potential, I think. Memories of Fire might have to wait a bit longer; I don't know that fantasy is a recognised short-story genre in the same way that sci-fi is. Other than that, my plans are pretty much nonexistent. I've also written poetry, but the only one that's seen or will see the light of day so far is "The Ballade of JCC-icide", a parody of Chesterton's "The Ballade of Suicide" which I wrote on a mad whim. Rogue1-and-a-half is currently carrying four lines of it in his sig, a gesture by which I am immensely honoured. What or who has influenced your writing style the most? Are there any special authors, on the boards or published, that you try to write like? I think it just evolved naturally over the years. The only thing I can point to directly is reading Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 for my AS Eng Lit coursework unit and being stunned by the lyrical quality of his prose - it's closer to poetry in a lot of places - which disproves in one swell foop the fallacy that science-fiction authors can't write. I lived with that book for close to three months, and it left traces. I also revere Arthur C. Clarke's short stories; he remains the master at taking an idea, making it real and twisting its tail in the space of a few thousand words. Check out The Star or The Nine Billion Names of God to see what I mean. Otherwise, Shakespeare is my permanent gold standard for emotion, character and clarity of expression. In non-SW, non-serious fic, I toil vainly towards the perfection of Terry Pratchett and Jasper Fforde (both are so littered with cultural references and in-jokes you couldn't do anything like it in fanfic - no offence to those who've tried, but it's not the same). If it's slightly more serious, touchstones are Philip Pullman, Julian May (the Galactic Milieu novels), Guy Gavriel Kay, and David Eddings' two Sparhawk trilogies. Technobabble comes courtesy of Alastair Reynolds, history-babble from Bernard Cornwell, and the Silmarillion is my reference point for epic awesomeness. I suppose that to some extent, everything I've ever read feeds into what I write. I've never consciously tried to emulate another fanfic author. It'd feel like encroaching on their territory, like pinching someone's OC without their permission. It's more like using other people's work to highlight what's wrong with mine; reading a wonderful story will occasionally spark a thought along the lines of "This person writes dialogue/description/character X way better than I do" followed by a determination to pay more attention to whatever-it-was in future. Of the three FanFic boards, which is your favorite to write in? The majority of my stories that have made it as far as the boards - 31 out of 48 - are in the Saga. But at the moment my favourite era is definitely Before - I've got at least half a dozen fics set 7000+ years before TPM in the works. (None of them are in postable form yet, but maybe one of these days . . .) The Before board is probably best for fanfic skating closest to original fiction - the rules of the universe are set, but otherwise there's a wonderful blank slate to scribble around on. The beautiful thing is that you've got thousands of years of unchronicled time to play with; my own sketched-out era takes in 320 years, six Dark Lords and a dozen generations of the Jedi family who keep them in check, and that's still barely a dent in the whole huge span of time before Anakin Skywalker comes on the scene. Also - and this is a purely technical issue - Before tends to move more slowly than Saga and Beyond. I remember how leisurely all three boards seemed to be when I joined up, a few months after they'd first been split; now, what with the influx of people after ROTS, the latter two boards have absolutely caught fire. I'm constantly discombobulated by how fast Saga turns over now and Beyond is even faster. Who is your favorite character? In addition, who is your favorite OC that you haven’t written? Luke for the OT, Anakin for the PT. They're the beating heart of the Star Wars mythos. The saga's genuinely that - a saga, a tale covering decades and generations, where the wrongdoing of one lot of people is reversed by their children. Anakin and Luke are the driving force of that. Watching the OT in light of the PT, ROTJ is that much more powerful, because it's concluding not just Luke's quest to redeem his father (which lasts barely one movie) but Anakin's quest to find - serenity? peace? I'm not sure there's an easy word for it. The supporting cast is huge and wonderful, but the Skywalker boys win out for me. (Mind you, I am constantly amazed by what other people can do with the characters that just don't click with me - Daenarrah's Padmé and VaderLVR's Mara are just two wonderful renderings I've seen recently.) My favourite OC of someone else's? I'm going to go back a long way here. Does anyone remember a spectacularly demented round-robin that once appeared in the Saga forum? It was called As The Furniture Flies and it was a glorious, messy, melodramatic, soap-opera snarkfest of a story dealing with increasingly bizarre goings-on at the Jedi Temple, involving twins, illegitimate love children, mistaken identity, amnesia, cloning, torture, sewage and Jello. Somehow it managed to star characters from three different eras at the same time, plus mutant self-insertions of the writers involved - intrepid reporter Diane Thx, equally intrepid rival reporter Jade Solo, amoral socialite Lady Shaindl, mad Sith changeling Dark Lady Nemesis and half a dozen more of us. Anyway, the best OC ever (ever, ever) was Shaindl's dim bodyguard, Biff, created by (I think) Diane. ATFF is long dead now, but I dig it out every so often and have a cackle. The dialogue between Biff and Qui-Gon is still one of the funniest things ever. Frankly, I'm amazed none of us were banned. You’ve won several writing contests, including the Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books and Comics writing contest and the FanFic-Mod-sponsored Movie Title Challenge. Why do you like participating, and how does it feel to win? I love winning! Drinks all round! No, seriously, I love it. It's an ego boost that doesn't change whether there were two entrants or twenty - the knowledge that Someone Out There genuinely likes my work and isn't just being tactful. It's very much a side benefit, though. One of my favourite stories, &end, was written for a mod-sponsored challenge and didn't win. I still love it just as much as the ones that did. And then there are the open challenges, like the Purge challenge, where there's no element of competition involved; that particular one spawned another favourite, Remembrance. It's nice to have the colours, of course - colouring up as a mod is always fun - but mainly I enjoy it because challenges make me write. I like the way that writing for a challenge takes away some of the directionlessness that often happens to me with good ideas. If I've got half a dozen great bunnies, chances are I'll write half a page for all of them and never get any of them finished. A challenge - whether it's to write from a specific prompt, or to fit a specific title - makes me concentrate on telling and finishing one story. My favorite story of yours (and believe me, it was hard to pick) is Seventy and Seven Shades of Green. Where did you get the inspiration for it? On the District Line tube train from Mile End to Embankment, on my way to see Simon Russell Beale play the lead in Brecht's Life of Galileo. . . . No? Okay. It's hard to say. There'd been a number of ideas floating around about Sith stories for Hallowe'en, one of which was of a Dark Lord ambushing a Jedi recruitment party, as it were. That got mixed up with a much older thought of a Sith setting himself up as the good guy, in contrast to the Jedi baby-snatchers. I mean, surely to a fairly backward culture, the Sith way - of a person choosing to dedicate themselves to the Sith once they were of an age to decide - would seem far more humane than the Jedi preference for taking them young. And I'd been wanting to write a self-contained Ionnàs story for a while, and at some point the idea germinated to have Io going back to his homeworld, Cynlaed, which I'd already decided was on the primitive side. Then it snowballed into a very detailed story hinging on a couple of things that don't get touched on much: first, there must be planets in GFFA where only the rich and powerful have ever seen an offworlder, and second, that the Jedi occasionally use unorthodox or unethical means to get things done. I think it got tangled up with my original-writing mindset, as well. Rereading it now it feels more like a historical fantasy or even a fleshed-out legend than anything else; it reminds me a little of British sci-fi writer Alastair Reynolds' talent for weird human cultures, or perhaps a Rosemary Sutcliffe historical novel, maybe one of her Celtic or Arthurian ones. Your story Ice[i] won the Before the Saga Story of the Month. How did that feel? Surprised? I was worried sick that nobody would understand what on earth was going on in [i]Ice[i], because on rereading there seems to be a lot of implied backstory that only I know anything about. SotM was proof that the mods liked it, at least, and so that the lack of explanation wasn't too crippling a deficit. The sad thing is, I don't believe another SotM has been chosen for Before since [i]Ice[i] last November. It'd be nice to see another fic go up there; I'm pretty sure that people do look at the headers. I know there's at least one wonderful story I only found because of the Saga SotM link. ([i]Empty Spiral, by __Sithspawn__) Tell us a little about your OC Ionnàs. He's a Dark Lord from several millennia before the Sith War, when the proto-Republic was relatively young and the galaxy was largely there for the taking. He hails from Cynlaed (also spelt Sionléad), an original planet of mine. The spelling is roughly Irish Gaelic; Inness - rhyming with Guinness, although I swear this was unintentional - is the best phonetic rendering of his name. He has green eyes that glow in the dark; I have no excuse to offer other than that cats-eyes are cool . . . Ionnàs came about because I wanted to write something about my personal interpretation of Sith philosophy and needed a narrator. He became the way he is because I wanted someone different to any of the canon Sith; not a cackling madman like the Emperor, not a thug like Maul, but still thoroughly nasty and without the vein of uncertainty that makes Vader so human. My thesis is that he was raised a Jedi, making him the more dangerous kind of Sith - one who knew the Light Side and actively chose to abandon it, not a minion brainwashed with the Dark from childhood. It's not exactly that he doesn't understand morality; it's more that he understands it perfectly and wants nothing to do with it. Aside from that, he's fairly understated for a Sith, and comes in low on the gloating-cackling-bad breath scale. He owes a little to Iago, from Othello - but I think a lot of good villains have a bit of Shakespeare's evil genius in them - and perhaps a little to Martel from David Eddings' Elenium. In the real world he'd probably be filthy rich and the éminence grise behind one of the bigger nuclear nations. Like OCs do, he took on a life of his own about halfway through writing The Testament of Ionnàs, and demanded more. Somehow one Sith Lord - originally he didn't even have a name - spawned a huge multi-stranded project that's still evolving and taking up ever more space on my hard drive. Io and the five Dark Lords who came after him all have backstory, dates, nemeses and a sketched-out life; this is the three-century, twelve-generation über-saga I mentioned earlier. Almost none of it's got to the boards yet; Ionnàs' successor, Juillanen, gets one mention in the Testament and Djanimilane, in The Serpent's Kiss, is one of Ju's failed apprentices. The three posted stories Io appears in are barely the tip of the iceberg. I'm seriously fond of Io, in the weird way you can be fond of fictional characters you'd run a mile from if you met them for real. One of these days I'll finish and post the story of how he became Dark Lord; I'm sure there are other vignettes dealing with his nefarious exploits waiting to happen, too. In Memoriam was archived. Are you planning on submitting other stories to the Archives? &end was added to the Archives a few days ago, so I'm quite proud of that. There are half a dozen other stories in various stages of editing, beta'ing and so on. The main problem is remembering about them for long enough to go through the submission process. I'm determined to get a few through sooner or later, though, because there's no question but that the Archive reaches a wider audience than the boards do. A story of mine on the boards might get 20 replies if I'm lucky and remember to up it before it gets locked – In Memoriam racked up its 4000th hit recently. And having things accepted for archiving is the same kind of rush as winning contests, I think; a tiny confirmation that yes, other people do actually think you can write, and aren't just being tactful to you . . . This is probably a really hard question, but which of your stories is your favorite? Why? Not as hard as it looked at first glance. I would nominate Half-Life, for being the one story where I feel I got everything right first time. I love the OC who narrates it; she came first, and the first line, and the rest of it came from there. I'm also quite proud of the depth and breadth of history that I managed to pack into it. It's a story of the galaxy itself more than anything else, it seems to me. Half-Life also carries quite a few memories; it was written at work, during the time I was working in the English office at a London university. (Since I wrote it during working hours, I suppose, technically, it's the only story I've been paid for.) Almost nothing was happening. I spent most of that day quietly typing, doing a bit at a time with frequent biscuit breaks, and only read the full thing once I'd finished. It was a damp, grey day and there was nothing to do except surf the Net and write. That said, honourable mentions for &end, which I think is the perfect example of my writing where canon characters are concerned, for Remembrance, of which I am very proud, and for A Free People, which let me indulge my inner Imperial. Dirty Rebel terrorists . . . In a twist on the famous question, if you could eat dinner with one fanfic author, who would it be and why? What are some of the questions or things you’d say to that person? If it really has to be one, I'd invite Shaindl - one of the first friends I made on the boards, and one of the first people I got to know better. She's been gone from the JC for quite a while, now, sadly; I guess a lot of the conversation would be catching up. Hopefully we could reminisce about the mad old days of slicing, e-insults and Alfie the virus on As The Furniture Flies (I think it's clear that I've been scarred for life by that story) and I could bug her about a threequel to the Roads{ duology, and point out that I still remember the line about boiling a Mon Cal - the GFFA equivalent of boiling a frog - from Turning Into Myself. Quite apart from being a very nice person, she also produced two stunning canon characterisations and one OC that I still remember now. Considering the ephemeral nature of what we do, that's a skill I wouldn't mind having. Her Garen in the two Roads stories (The Roads That We Travel Shatter And Split and Dark Side of the Road) is a superb Jedi hero and manages the interesting feat of stealing a story from right under Obi-Wan's perfectly formed nose; her Padmé in Turning Into Myself is an absolute tour de force. The narrator of This Is My Spot, See? is one of the most lifelike OCs I've been lucky enough to encounter. But I honestly think I'd have to have a whole dinner party. Diane was my first friend on the boards and remains an extraordinarily nice person writing a wonderful mostly-OC ensemble for Betrayal; VaderLVR, say no more; the_wandering_shadow, another early friend; JadeSolo . . . not to mention Rogue1-and-a-half, who only does fanfic as a sideline (his story The Prison, on the Classic board, is a work of art) but is indisputably a JC legend and a good friend, poetry fan and appreciator of Shakespeare. What advice would you give to your fellow authors, especially those newer to fanfic? Read around, write around. When I joined the JC there was a thread in Resource called the Laboratory where writers could, quite simply, experiment and play around with things that gave them trouble. That's been gone for a while, but I'd say its natural successor(s) are the challenge threads. Write for a few challenges, read the other entries, and keep an eye on what's going on around you. Visit the Archive occasionally; things show up there that you might never see elsewhere. Make friends. Venture out of the fanfic boards and find other forums you can go to when the Muse ain't co-operating. And, of course, the obvious. Don't let it get you down. We're supposed to be having fun here, dammit! Want to read more? JediNemesis profile The Serpent’s Kiss Seventy and Seven Shades of Green Ice The Testament of Ionnas In Memoriam (Saga) In Memoriam (Archives) &end (Saga) &end (Archives) Half-Life A Free People As the Furniture Flies The Ballade of JCC-icide by JediNemesis The colour for an ex-mod, shall I say, Is bright and clear and honourable red; I contemplate it in a cautious way, As one who sees a lot of it ahead; But just as all the users - in the thread - Are hitting 'Post Reply' to type "NO WAI!" The strangest whim has seized me: all being said I think that I will not step down to-day. I much prefer my name its current way - Or maybe I should switch to pink instead - I make the jump to Manager in May - In Shelf of Shame I'm twenty-two ahead - (There's still so many books I haven't read) Another Sleepy Game is still to play - I'm in the Mafia and still not dead - I think that I will not step down to-day. The admins have come back from being away; The spammers have moved on; the flamers fled; And IGN has said that we can stay; The banner is a fetching shade of red, And tells us all what Yarael Poof has said; The JCC shows no signs of decay, And no-one recently has claimed they're dead; I think that I will not step down to-day. ENVOI Phil Wise, for all your efforts on that head, For now I have no plans to fade away; Tomorrow I may have e-tears to shed; I think that I will not step down to-day. -----signature----- "Not till the moon falls. Not till the world ends."
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dianethx Registered: Mar '02	Date Posted: 4/16/07 2:53pm Subject: RE: Interviews with Authors version 4.0 - interview with JediNemesis!!
	Nem, what a great interview. I love that you are willing to work for free to see the plays, lucky you! And I look forward to seeing you Before stories. You don't post enough! Probably my favorite of your stories is &end. Chilling, rivetting and so very sad. I was so happy for you when it got into the Archives. Well deserved! I remember and still miss very much our fun time on As the Furniture Flies. I wish it was still going on. Such silliness and it forced me to write humor. I still read it, too. Loved it, loved it, loved it! I especially remember JadeSolo's recaps. Classic! As for Biff the bodyguard , he was originally written in as a cameo by Shaindl but she let me run with the character so most of Biff's appearances were mine. I adored the man - he would be in the worst trouble and come out smelling like a rose when everyone around him smelled like sewage. Ah, the good old days. Lovely to see your interview. Great job. -----signature----- Betrayal - http://boards.theforce.net/s/b1/10935143 updated 9/22/08 Fragments of Illusion- http://boards.theforce.net/bts/b10475/28456473 updated 11/20/08 jedidas3's Master At last - Hope for our country
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Healer_Leona Registered: Jul '00	Date Posted: 4/16/07 5:42pm Subject: RE: Interviews with Authors version 4.0 - interview with JediNemesis!!
	Excellent interview Nem. -----signature----- Any way youll never know The many ways I've tried
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VaderLVR64 Title: Fan Fic Manager in Combat Boots Registered: Feb '04	Date Posted: 4/16/07 6:39pm Subject: RE: Interviews with Authors version 4.0 - interview with JediNemesis!!
	Excellent interview! &end is such a superb work, it's an emotional punch in the gut. Everything you write is amazing, and it's great to learn a bit more about you! -----signature----- If you have to choose between tears and laughter, remember that laughter burns more calories. Army Mom! HOOAH! Adopt a soldier: http://soldiersangels.org/
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MirandaFair Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 4/16/07 8:40pm Subject: RE: Interviews with Authors version 4.0 - interview with JediNemesis!!
	Wow, what a great interview. I enjoyed the questions. It's wonderful to learn more about you, JediNemesis. I wish you lot's of luck this summer at the Globe Theatre. As a huge Shakespeare fan myself, that is such a great opportunity. I'd love to hear about your experiences! -----signature----- May the Muse be with you.
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