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

Roa

[shipwreck_light]

Roa was always supposed to be the quiet, sweet one the readers didn't expect to be any good at her job. In fact, the first Roa wasn't.

In the original under the bed draft, she was also a mathematician and a masochist who did her best thought experiments while tied up. She didn't do so much of the killing.

Now, another interesting thing. Jealous of Roses starts at a different place in time than I first thought of. Originally, it began when Vier showed up and the introduction was him trying to grope his way around the manor. And here you are going "Who the devil is Vier?"

Not a very good person to narrate introductions, it turns out. Is his perspective valid and interesting? I hope it will be. But it isn't big on /why/ anything happens. So, I decided to backtrack a bit and set up the manor a bit more so the audience could have some dramatic irony when he showed up. They would know what was up. So, they needed to hear from characters who cared about /why/ and rather a lot.

And because of that- it is damn hard to up and shove the audience into the perspective of someone who mentally plots bell curves while hanging upside down. Plus, I started to feel that if I was going to have more women around, damnit, they were going to actually kill people and it was going to be awesome.

Enter the pink switchblade. Who dares pluck up such a thing and be terrifying with it?

Really, she is the pink switchblade, probably on more of a level than the other characters are their weapons. She's charming and deadly and really kind of out of place in the city where she lives.

I wanted her to be an outsider, but a curious outsider.

Re: Roa

[isana]

Maybe that's why I love her; I think out of the courtiers, she lacks that city polish, but there's that natural instinct of hers that is just lovely to behold whenever she takes up the page. And I love the idea of the pink switchblade, because if anyone would be able to take it and make it formidable, it would be Roa.

Re: Roa

[shipwreck_light]

*blushing all over the plaaaaaaaaaaace*

She was never as engineered as some of the rest of the cast, I don't think. Maybe she didn't run off into the wild, blue yonder like Seb but... more went down an unfamiliar street to see what was there.

I think Imma bump up the last Lawn Green so we can get some more of her. I'm starting to miss her myself.

Re: Roa

[isana]

She is that sort of awesome in that when reading, your eye is immediately drawn to her, just for being the pink switchblade. I almost want to picture her as a relative of Revolutionary Girl Utena's Anthy, without any dark past.

Re: Roa

[shipwreck_light]

Fun fact! I am almost finished showing Utena to one of my writing buddies. She shrieked at it like I did once upon a time. It made me so nostalgic for the first time I saw it.

I would be flattered to death if you pictured Roa as Anthy.

Roa's past is... complicated. Not that dark by a long shot.

I'm waiting until winter to write it because it's mostly set on Meloe and I want to think about beaches when it's cold out.

IR shallow riter.