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[1917farmgirl]

Oh, wow! I've been neglecting this again! So sorry! Let me see if I can answer your questions.

Characteristics of the twins as individuals? Hmmmmm. Well, I do think they share a lot of things in common, but I also try to make sure they are given their own personalities. This is how I see them, but it's by no way the right way or the only way.

George - to me George is slightly more reserved than Fred. He tends to think things through a LITTLE more than Fred. I also think he is someone the "brains" behind the duo.

Fred - certainly the "leap before looking" of the two, or at least he does it most (cause let's face it, they both do it.) While I don't think he actually means it, he can be a bit harsher than George. He is also usually the first to speak in a conversation.

Anyway, that is very simplified but kinda what I run on when I write the two.

How often do I write? - Well, lately, not much at all! *cries* Lets just put it this way, I write whenever I have the time, and whenever the muse is around. Lately, time has been the reason I'm not writing. Hopefully, I get that under control soon.

And finally, the era I read the most about? - I don't have a specific era I read about so much as characters I read about. I love Hogwarts stuff, AU stuff, post-Hogwarts if there's Fred in it, etc.

Thanks so much for your questions! It was great fun answering!

[daliha]

First off... I love your work It's the first time I've stopped by here though so shame on me! But here I have the following questions:

• What is your favorite part of writing? Is it creating the plot? Getting inside your characters heads?
• What is your favorite genre?
• And just for fun: What do you think about George and Angelina?

[1917farmgirl]

There is no shame, because it's been more than a year that I've left your questions hanging. It's me that deservese the shame! I'm so, so, so sorry! All I can say is that last year was awful and insane and I left a lot of things hanging because of it. I hope you can forgive me.

Now, on to the questions.

What is my favorite part of writing? Hmmmm. That's a hard one! I'm not sure I have one favorite part. I love brainstorming, thinking of plot ideas and how characters would react to certain things. Figuring out where I want to take a story. I also love "spending time" with the characters. That's the whole reason I write fanfiction to begin with - because there are characters I love too much to just let them go. I hope that sort of answers your question.

Favorite genre... This one's hard, too! You sure pick hard questions. I don't know if I have a favorite of this either, there are so many different ones I like. I love family stories, fluff, humor, angst, action/adventure even the occasional well-done AU or crossover. It's probably easier to list what I don't like. I don't like romance very much, especially ones that don't put Harry and Ginny together, or Ron and Hermione. I don't read slash or horror stories, and I'm really not a fan of songfics.

George and Angelina - Okay, this one I'm mixed on. I'm not apposed to it. I like Angelina well enough and think she's an awesome character. But I have never really seen her as compatable with George (or Fred for that matter.) It might be that all the George and Angelina stories I've read take place after Fred has died, and I hate reading stories with Fred dead in them. But I really just think that when I was reading the books I never, ever thought of them together and had all kinds of ideas for what the girl George would end up with was like. Because the twins were my favorite characters, I thought up this huge ellaboriate idea of what their future would be like, with lots of detail. Then, when JKR revieled that George and Angelina ended up together, it was so off from what I'd pictured that I was like WHAT? And I've never been able to completely reconcile everything I imagined with what we've learned. Does that make any sense?

Thanks so much for stoping by! And again, so incredibly sorry to be so slow answering!

Edited by 1917farmgirl, 20 August 2012 - 03:58 AM.

[ValWitch21]

Hi! I saw your status and decided to come to the rescue of your MTA.

 

1. What's your favourite colour?

2.Twins aside, who's your favourite character?

3. If you had the chance to save any character of the series except for Fred, who would it be and why?

4. Which Weasley brother would you kill off instead of Fred?

5. If you had one hour in Diagon Alley, where would you go?

6. What's your opinion on Luna? On Snape?

7. Which female character is your favourite?

8. How did you come up with the idea for Healing?

9. Who's your least favourite character amongst those considered to be 'the good guys'?

10. Pancakes or waffles?

11. Tea or coffee?

[blueirony]

Hypothetically, say you knew a person who wrote a story. Hypothetically. As in, this didn't actually happen in real life. This is just a possible scenario. Totally hypothetical.

 

So. You know this person. And they have written a story. And you loved it. But they were unsure about it. And they didn't really write too much more of it until they told you after a very long time that they thought they might dig it up and have another go at it. And so, of course, you were really excited and everything. But then you didn't hear much from them. And you totally understand because they are a really busy person, but you think it's such a shame since the story has so much promise and potential.

 

What advice would you give to this writer who seems to be stuck?

 

 

Ha. No. You don't have to answer that one if you don't want to. But I do have genuine questions for you.

 

1. What do you love so much about the Weasley twins?

2. Your story, Healing, is a very different "Book Eight". It deals with exactly what its title says, people healing after a war. It isn't like other Book Eights which do have some aspects of healing, but not to the extent yours does. What made you decide to write your version of Book Eight in such a different manner?

3. Why do you think JKR made the decision to kill Fred?

4. Which character do you think is overlooked the most in fanfiction?

5. What three things do you wish you could change about the HP books?

[1917farmgirl]

Hi ValWitch21!  Thanks for asking questions and blowing the dust off this old thing!  Let’s see what I can do to answer them…

 

1. Favorite color – yellow.  It’s just so happy.
2. Favorite character other than the twins?  Hmm…this is kinda hard.  Probably Harry.
3. Who would I save besides Fred?  Can I chose two?  1. Tonks – because I wish Teddy could have grown up with a parent.  2. Snape – because I wish he could have had the chance to live without having to lead a double life.
4. I have to kill a Weasley?  That’s against my moral code!!!  Okay, I’m not gonna say I would have liked it, but I honestly thought Percy was going to die.  I thought he would come back to the right side, but ultimately have to die for it.
5. Easy.  Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes.
6. I love Luna.  I think she’s quirky and genuine and sweet.  On Snape?  I think he’s complicated.  But brave.  And very much on the good side, even if he wasn’t always doing it for pure motives.
7. Favorite female character – Hermione.  I know, I’m not very original.
8. How I came up with the idea for Healing?  Now, that’s a complicated answer.  I have another story I’m writing.  I actually started it first, but then I realized I needed something to bridge the gap between it and where the book left off.  So, Healing was born.  It was supposed to be a quick, couple chapter thing that moved into my story.  Haha, right.  So, now, who knows if the other story will ever see the light of day, because I can’t post it until Healing is finished, and we all know how quickly that is happening.
9. Least favorite good guy?  Lavender Brown – she drives me crazy.
10. Waffles
11. Can I say neither and go with hot chocolate?

Thanks for asking fun questions!

Now, on to Joop'

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Hypothetically, let’s say I knew what you were talking about, which hypothetical story would this hypothetical author have hypothetically left you hanging on, because they could have more than one unfinished one…you know, hypothectically…

Advice for said stuck writer?  A miracle?

No, really, I am trying to get back to writing my stories.  I’m working on the next chapter of Healing.  Ron’s just being stubborn again.

Now, to your non-hypothetical questions.

1. Why do I love the twins?  I don’t know.  I just know that from the very first moment they showed up in the first book, I was hooked.  That line “Honestly woman, and you call yourself our mother” from the first book made me laugh so hard.  I love characters with a sense of humor and who are sarcastic and such.  But, then they became more than that.  I saw that they really were brave and loyal and had deeper sides to them, but they still never let life make them too serious.  I guess I just loved that.
2. Healing – again, this is kinda similar to what I said up above.  I didn’t actually set out to write a book 8.  I needed a bridge for the gap between DH and my other story.  I needed to explain how Fred was still alive and such.  And so Healing was born.  And then it just took on a life of its own.
3. Why did she kill him?  Because she wanted to cause me life-long pain and suffering….  I don’t know.  I’ve asked myself this a million times.  Why Fred.  I guess she had to kill a Weasley brother.  There were too many of them to make it through the war unscathed.  And she knew one of the twins would have the most emotional impact, short of Ron.
4. I’m gonna sound like a broken record here, but I really feel the twins are the most overlooked.  They have so much potential, and as more than just comic relief.  But, that’s all they usually get to do.  One or two funny lines here or there.  OR, even worse, only George fics dealing with his grief over Fred.
5. Three things to change about HP?  I’m assuming you mean besides the obvious Fred thing.  Hmmm…  1.  Hedwig lives.  2. Luna’s house doesn’t get destroyed.  3. The epilogue and all the info that’s come out since.  I really don’t like it.  I like having a little leeway with how the characters turned out, not having it all spelled out for me.

Thanks for coming by!  It was great to hear from you.  Hopefully this got the creative juices flowing!