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Featured story of the month for December - Yesterday's Blue Skies by Just Marina
mare:
I'm so pleased to see everyone reading this one! :) Very nice!
mare:
Okay Oprah is back. Sorry Maria, but you know how December is for me and I know you still love me anyway lol
A few questions for you
Where do you come up with the ideas for some of the names you use for things like planets, people and weapons?
What made you decide to write a sci fi? I know you aren't a sci fi writer really so how did this idea come about for you?
Why did you choose to write it in Aj's POV?
honey:
--- Quote from: mare on December 08, 2007, 09:06:52 AM ---
Why did you choose to write it in Aj's POV?
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oo good question, was gonna ask that too.
marina:
--- Quote from: mare on December 08, 2007, 09:06:52 AM ---Okay Oprah is back. Sorry Maria, but you know how December is for me and I know you still love me anyway lol
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Mmmmhhh Do I? LOL :P Of course I do :-*
Okay here are my answers:
Where do you come up with the ideas for some of the names you use for things like planets, people and weapons?
The other languages I speak come handy for this. Most of the names for planets, creatures, etc. are me playing with words in other languages... you take one word in this language and another word in another language, put them together, mix the letters, things like that. That way most of those names 'mean' something when you know where they came from and how to read them. Now the weapons are just letters and numbers because weapons generally have numbers in them (usually because of the caliber, I think, but I played with that too) and I think there's a ship somewhere in the story that has its origin in Star Wars while the other spaceships and weapons are a mix of sci-fi references and air force/army terminology.
What made you decide to write a sci fi? I know you aren't a sci fi writer really so how did this idea come about for you?
It was one of those crazy ideas that came to my mind one night when I was in bed, some of those sometimes become stories and that's what happened to this one. There's a chance I had watched a sci-fi movie that week because for some reason I started to picture the boys as sci-fi heroes inside a spaceship and then I thought that could be an interestig story to write and decided to give it a try. I have to thank you and mersey too because if you girls hadn't encourage me to keep going I'm sure this story would still be just a fun idea floating around my head.
Why did you choose to write it in Aj's POV?
Well, Kevin and Nick are my favorite boys and I knew I wouldn't be comfortable writing a long story in their POVs (feeling I wasn't doing it right). Same thing with Howie and Brian but in their case because I don't know as much about them as I do about the other three guys, no matter that I love all five boys. So that pretty much left me with AJ, the one in the middle, and I started developing ideas from there. By then I had already decided that Kevin, Brian and Nick would be brothers, which was another reason to write the story in AJ's POV considering that he would be the one with all the 'mistery' in his life, especially regarding his father. In other words, he was the one who would be experiencing most of the drama, i.e. the 'middle child' wth all the problems, and I thought it would be good for the story to get a look at his thoughts.
marina:
--- Quote from: honey on December 05, 2007, 12:45:00 AM ---
Awesome job Marina! I'm glad this one was featured because I never would have thought to read this story otherwise and I am just enjoying the hell out of it!
I only have one other thing to say at the moment...
If you haven't read this story, I hope you aren't afraid to give it a chance because it's a si-fi. I really think Mare is right. If you were ever going to read one, you should try this one because its great!!! Give it a chance guys!!! It's wonderful!!!
Yay Marina!
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Wow, once again thank you very much for all the nice words about the story.
We are competing for best AU? I didn't know that. I so hope to find time soon to read your story because I'm really curious now and it's never late to become a sci-fi reader lol
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