Q over D creative writing version ;) heh

[dwim]

"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe stick out in my mind. One halloween I was watching some biography on him and these actors did the whole re-enacting of that poem. (I've become quite obsessed with poetry video and is pretty mad there's not more...) That was my first spoken word experience also. The way that voice read the poem (whoever it was...) still stuck out in my mind and whenever I read that poem, I can hear that voice going through my head that chill goes down my spine. Nothing else ever touched me completely before or since...

Ok Q...
What piece of literature would you recommend to your enemies?

[Miral]

Ah, yes, a classic in it's own write? heh
Ok, first Q:
What one poem is your absolute favorite poem?
Mine is Byron's Porphyria's Lover, you have to read it and if you know my...strange interests you'll understand

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~There are a great many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane.~
~Is that my hand in your pocket or am I just happy to see you?~
~You want me to dress up as Wonderwoman, tie you up in my golden lariat and make you tell the truth, don't you?~
~A super-calloused fragile mystic cursed with halitosis~ *prov. by Dano*

[Branflakes]

Any self-help book.


First book you remember reading?

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Branflakes. The Ninja Lesbian. The Milk Getter. The Hair Gel Getter. I get it all!
The one Necro calls "brain".
Call me what you want, just don't call me Blue Falcon or Branni.
I walk the path, trying not get pulled into the weeds.
"walking away, no longer running."--NecroFlash
"See that star...the one shining brighter than all the others? I know the girl who hung it there."

[jones]

logan's run. read it cover to cover in 3rd grade. i'm sure i read other books before that, but that's the first book i can name.

the first book i read that i still enjoy is probably watership down (also in 3rd grade). i still read it today and find new meaning every time.

describe the first piece of fiction or poetry you ever wrote.


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[dwim]

It was fiction, way back in elementary school at patterson Kennedy Elementary. I wrote this one story of a mad scientist and the haunted house. The reason that I remembered that was because one of my classmates accused me of plagarism. It wasn't copied or anything so I took it as a compliment even though I was mad at him for saying that it wasn't original. Can you believe that? Anyway, the question...

What is one piece of work that you wished you wrote?

[erisesoteric]

SiP, of course!

Or anything by Shakespeare (modernized, of course)

Or anything by Rilke.

Or the Chronicles of Narnia...

OOOOOOPSS

Did somebody say ONE piece?

Have you ever had a book/poem/etc. subtly rewire the circuitry in your brain?

[Dano]

Well, if you mean completely changing my entire thought process as a whole, effectively altering who I am as a person and how I choose to live my life, I would say that The Tao of Pooh did that for me.

If you mean that the experience of reading something was a total head trip and mindfuck that left me dazed and confused, unable to fully comprehend the world about me, then I would say that On The Road did that. Sorry dwim, I think Kerouac is shit. Just one guy's opinion.

The first piece I ever wrote was a mother's day poem that I wrote in 2nd grade (my mom still has it and showed it to me last year). For an 8 year old, it's not bad.

When was the last time you did a reading in public, and did it go over well?

[jones]

in college when i was more into poetry and performance and all that i used to do impromptu spoken stuff at these wierd little amateur nights on campus. i only did a couple though. on the last one i went up and happened to tweak the foibles of a good friend of mine. it was part of a pseudo-poem. what i didn't know was that this guy was a manic depressive and prone to unpredictible reactions. from how i knew him, i thought he'd find it funny. as it happened, though, he never spoke to me again and sent me a letter explaining i was "talented" but that "the world is full of talented assholes." ouch. it still depresses me that i hurt him like that. i haven't read in public since, but the one doesn't really have anything to do with the other. i'm just not that interested in poetry as performance.

i can say i like jack kerouac, but IMO he's at his best when he's trying to be thomas wolfe (who was a HUGE influence on the big K's early stuff). and unfortunately, only the best of jack kerouac is better than average thomas wolfe.

tons of things have rewired my brain. catcher in the rye is an obvious choice, so i'd also like to mention dostoevsky's notes from underground. after reading that book, i began to recognize how many people consciously choose misery over happiness. i wouldn't be writing my characters the way i do now if not for that book.

and then there's people like frank o'hara and william blake who showed me how often the extraordinary is mistaken for the ordinary and vice-versa. but that's another story.

the first thing i ever wrote were these two or three page sci-fi adventures in third grade. they were, of course, very star wars-ish. at that time all i wanted to be was a paperback sci-fi writer.

ever try writing hard-core porn?

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[Miral the Dominatrix]

Been there done that...and damn I've been posting as Dom in StP!!! AAAAHH!! Criminelly!! Oh, back to writing hardcore porn...I wasn't good at it because I like softcore stuff better....so it kinda scared me to write it. heh

Have you ever been sitting and reading what you thought was an innocent novel and then all of a sudden there's a really explicitly written love scene and some old people sit down on the bench across from you? (yes speaking from experience)

[LAMECH]

uhm....scratches head...sorry, no, I haven't.
Hmmmm...I wonder if I could...(pause)...nahhh, I think I'll stick with writing characters that are one french short of a Happy Meal.
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Which book would you like to be made into the movie? And who is in the cast?