matthewtime ([info]matthewtime) wrote,
@ 2008-04-01 13:12:00
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"In This Land"
Someday, hopefully soon, you have to tell us how you came up with this story. I need to know how in the world you came up with this world that feels so real! It's amazing. Is this what you were doing when you took that year long break from Living? If so then it was worth it.

Thank you!

I finished "Living" years before I started ITL. ITL began with a simple conversation between me and Diamond. We came up with the concept of an eighth brother, and everything rolled from there.

Diamond and I talked about who the Seven Siblings were, came up with names and colors, discussed suitors, gods, belas, the Anorian calender, etc. We put the books in order - - which Sibling's story will come when - - but we've shuffled that a few times since then.

Once I had names and a setting, it was just a matter of writing.

It looks like I started writing "In This Land" on September 29th of 2006, and started posting it on November 1st. Not sure when I really started thinking about it, but I don't remember it being very long before that. Once I committed to writing it, it was only a matter of hammering out the details before I got started.


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[info]meridae
2008-04-02 03:21 am UTC (link)
::looks at your suspiciously:: What is this 'Living' of which you speak, and why am I being made to confess my ignorance and appear stupid (Possibly in front of the Pharoah!!!) so that I may gain knowledge of it?

::speaks oddly::

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[info]bevoboy98
2008-04-02 05:17 am UTC (link)
"http://www.matthewtime.com/series.html"
Pssssssst.


You won't be sorry.

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[info]meridae
2008-04-02 07:30 am UTC (link)
Aha - that explains it! I usually stick exclusively to original fic - not cos I think there's anything wrong with fanfic (or whatever it's more properly called) but because there's just *so much of it* that I don't know where to start wading through the bad stuff to find the good stuff! But here we have what we know will already be good stuff . . . oh, you're SO BAD!

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[info]matthewtime
2008-04-02 08:11 pm UTC (link)
"Living" is so old that I don't generally recommend it to new readers. I love its themes, and I love the characters, but my style's changed a lot since then.

"Sucker" is more recent, so I would recommend that, except that it's probably genuinely and maddeningly confusing to people who aren't already familiar with the boy bands involved.

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[info]meridae
2008-04-02 03:21 am UTC (link)
Also, would Rini mind if I licked him?

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[info]matthewtime
2008-04-02 08:11 pm UTC (link)
He never minds that.

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[info]meridae
2008-04-04 05:28 am UTC (link)
Yay! ::licks Rini's butt::

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