Last week Letitia Coyne at Ergofiction interviewed me for their Café Monday feature. It was a lot of fun, and she had some really great questions about the writing process, finding characters' voices, and connecting with readers. She also managed to coax me into gushing with a troubling lack of abandon about various tidbits of autobiographical trivia, mental illness, punk rock posturing, corporate wealth, gender identity, and similar bits of nonsense.
Here's an excerpt:
I never write characters that are straight analogs of people I know in real life, because frankly real life is boring to me. But I do often base certain traits on things I’ve observed in real people, so one character may be an amalgamation of several people, a friend, an ex, a random encounter, or pieces of myself. Even then, I’ll usually exaggerate those traits and tendencies to make the character more archetypal. I think that fiction should be larger than life, sexier, more dangerous, more entertaining… or else what’s the point?Read the full interview here.
Ergofiction is a webzine helmed by Jan Oda designed to help webfiction readers to connect with each other, discuss their favorites, and discover new obsessions.Letitia Coyne is a blogger and author. Her novels are available for free online and as PDF downloads via her blog.
Other Sides is an anthology of independent experimental webfiction compiled and released by Ergofiction. It's available as a free ePub & PDF download, or for purchase in multiple formats if you want to show some love with currency.
