Writers' Salon!

[isana]

All right, guys, let's get this started.

This is a post for members to post their burning questions to each other. They can be simple, like "when is Character X's birthday," or not so simple "how would you define the relationship between Character X and Character Y?" If there's a story you want that author to talk about, throw in the title (and some points you'd like covered!) and if said author's willing, they can write their answer in a separate post, since I have no idea what the comment word limits are.

Here's how it'll work: an author who's up for answering questions/writing commentaries about stories will leave their name in a comment. Readers who want to ask questions or request stories reply to that comment, and hopefully we'll have some good conversations going!

If you guys request stories, it may be best if you limit them to rainbowfic for the time being, unless the story you've got archived outside the comm is in a public entry.

EDIT: If it's not already obvious, you can ask authors more than one question in however many comments you like. The point is to have a discussion, and it wouldn't be very lively if it stopped at one question per author! Just give the author a chance to finish answering your previous questions, of course.

Comments

[bookblather]

Do you have any particular inspirations? Books or movies or even sights that make you think of your story?

[leia_solo]

What has most inspired me is The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir. Ever since I read that book I've been fascinated by each woman and I wanted to do my own take on the story with the women featured prominently and how they related to the husband (in this case Henri I).

History also inspires me a great deal. I'm rather fond of European History and I'm starting to branch out into other disciplines. Women in history also interest me a great deal. As a woman, I like to read about how women got by being a male's world. It really pisses me off that there isn't that much written about women compared to their husband and sons. This particular thread of thought also motivates me in writing TMC. While the men are important to my story, I tend to focus on the women and that's not an accident haha.

Anything can be an inspiration for me honestly. It seems lately that everything I look at or think about, I want to incorporate into my story.

[bookblather]

I LOVE THAT BOOK! Alison Weir is one of my very favorite historians forever, and Six Wives is one of her best stories. Could I also recommend anything by Antonia Fraser? I just got finished reading a book by her called Warrier Queens; highly recommended.

[leia_solo]

I actually just finished a book by Antonia Fraser on the women in Louis XIV's life. I'll definitely be reading more of her books.

[bookblather]

I have that one out of the library right now, actually. How is it?

[leia_solo]

I really loved it. It was split up into four parts, each named after a season. I liked how it not only focused on his mother and wife. But his daughters and his granddaughter in law, Adelaide of Savoy as well as his mistresses naturally. It definitely made me want to learn more about his reign.

[bookblather]

Excellent! I think I'll start reading it immediately (after I finish Victorian London. And Mao's Great Famine. Those have to go back first. Ah, library reading priorities...)