psychonerfbunny actually stole my question. Though I've got a somewhat related one.
Do you feel that you create your stories from scratch or that you find them in pieces and put them together? In other words, judging from your posts, your characters talk to you (which, incidentally, is very nice to know; gives me a vague sense of hope for what remains of my sanity); do you just let them go their own way, or do you try to hold them to a pre-existing plotline?
As far as introductions go, I'm a first-year PhD student in English at Oxford. I ran across Mélusine completely by accident when I was looking for a copy of Jean d'Arras' Roman de Mélusine on Amazon, and literally had to lock it in another room so I wouldn't get in trouble for reading it at work. ;) Watching -- however indirectly -- your writing process is absolutely fascinating, especially since both Mélusine and The Virtu are such brilliant novels and I'm very much looking forward to The Mirador. I actually also read your PhD thesis when you posted it online since Webster's Duchess of Malfi is one of my favourite plays of all time.
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Date: 2007-02-26 01:05 am (UTC)Do you feel that you create your stories from scratch or that you find them in pieces and put them together? In other words, judging from your posts, your characters talk to you (which, incidentally, is very nice to know; gives me a vague sense of hope for what remains of my sanity); do you just let them go their own way, or do you try to hold them to a pre-existing plotline?
As far as introductions go, I'm a first-year PhD student in English at Oxford. I ran across Mélusine completely by accident when I was looking for a copy of Jean d'Arras' Roman de Mélusine on Amazon, and literally had to lock it in another room so I wouldn't get in trouble for reading it at work. ;) Watching -- however indirectly -- your writing process is absolutely fascinating, especially since both Mélusine and The Virtu are such brilliant novels and I'm very much looking forward to The Mirador. I actually also read your PhD thesis when you posted it online since Webster's Duchess of Malfi is one of my favourite plays of all time.