1)If you could visit any place at any time period, where would you go and what would you do?

I would visit The Forbidden City in China as an honored guest!

2) Have you ever met anyone famous?

 Yes. A soap star was a guest teacher in an acting camp I went to once. Also, my boyfriend’s dad is a published author of fantasy and children’s novels. And I think it’s really cool. He gets lots of German fanmail.

3) If you could meet any famous person, alive or dead, who would it be and what would you say/do?

 I would really like to meet Lisa Ling and tell her she’s my Lois Lane.

4) If you could switch lives with any person, who would you choose and why? If you want to switch with a person who is dead, we’ll assume that you wanted to live their life while he/she was alive.

 Um…Princess Diana. She’s a PRINCESS.

5) Who is your favorite author, alive or dead, and why?

 Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita, need I say more?

6) What is your favorite book and why?

 Lolita. I’ve read it twice. And I NEVER do rereads for books. It’s such pretty writing with layers of scary situations.

7) What is your favorite movie and why?

 Girl 6. It makes me want to be a phone sex operator.

8.) What is your favorite television show and why?

 Glee. Because life is a musical.

9) Do people in your Real Life know that you are a member of NS?

 Yes.

10) Do people in your Real Life know that you read/write fanfiction?

 Yes.

11) When did you first start reading fanfiction?

 6th grade.

12) When did you first get started in writing fanfiction?

 6th grade

13) Is fanfic writing just a hobby for you or do you hope to go further with your writing?

 I secretly dream about writing trashy romance novels under a glamorous pen name. But it’s a fun hobby. When I get a chance to do it.

14) When you aren’t writing awesome fanfics, what do you do and/or want to be doing?

 I am working and/or watching lots of television. I want to read and paint more.

15) How and why did you first get interested in Chlex? What do you like most about the characters? What do you hate about them?

 It was during Magnetic when Lex urged Chloe not to bite of more than she could chew in regards to his father. Sparks. Sparks were in the air with that dead man on the table in the cold morgue. I imagined in my head instantly that they embraced passionately as they fell to the ground. My head has never been wrong about a couple. Never.

16) How and why did you first get interested in writing Chlex fanfiction?

 I was waiting for it to happen on the show. And when there was that explosion with Chloe and Lex drank that poison, I knew I had to act fast to keep my heart from breaking.

17) Is there anything while reading Chlex fanfiction that you really like/hate?

 I love obsessed Lex. I love Chloe just in general. I don’t hate anything about Chlex.

18) What (if any) other fandoms do you read/write for and why?

 I used to hit the HP fanfic like an addict back in the early high school days. And I wrote for it too. Oneshots. Yuppers.

19) What type of environment do you need to write? For example: extreme quiet, blaring music, subtle background noise, etc.

 I need adequate time. And snacks within reach with the television playing a rerun of SVU.

20) How do your ideas come to you? Do you always write them or do you let them disappear?

 I let them disappear. When I write them down, I feel burdened to write them out. And then I can’t finish and I feel guilty. It’s best to let them go.

21) Do you plan a story from the beginning to end or start with an idea and let the chapters come to you as they do?

 I let the chapters smack me around a while.

22) Do you ever input certain aspects about yourself into the lives of Chloe and Lex? For example: Do you have Chloe listen to your favorite song or have Lex watch your favorite movie?

 Yes. I input a lot of my fashion sense onto Chloe. Nothing very out of character, but I like her in pencil skirts and high heels ALL THE TIME. I can’t connect with Lex as well. I’m very nice and nurturing in real life and I try not to accidentally make him that way.

23)Do you associate your writing with any songs even if it isn’t a songfic?

 Sure do. I like pretending that I can make ChlexVids and what songs I would use. And then it just becomes an idea for a fic.

24) Do you prefer writing easy, quick stories or long, layered stories?

 Easy and quick. But I always end up trying to do something long and layered.

25) Which do you find easier to write: dialogue or description or are the equally hard/easy?

 They are both hard. But I prefer writing description.

26) Is there anything that you won’t write or feel uncomfortable writing?

 Incest makes me very uncomfortable. Rape is also too emotionally hard to write.

27) What do you do to cure writer’s block? What advice can you give to new writers who might be scared to post their stories?

 There’s a cure?! Post it anyway even if you’re scared. Believe that people are innately good-hearted and excited to help and all you have to fear in life are natural disasters.

28) Have you ever read someone else’s fanfic and wished you thought of the idea first?

 Every time.

29) Have you ever wanted someone else to write your story idea?

 EVERY TIME. I’m lazy.

30) Are reviews vital to keep you writing or will you finish a story even if you aren’t certain people are reading?

 Reviews makes me feel bubbly. But an urgent review can light quite a fire under my butt.

31) Have you ever had a review that made you think something about your story that you never thought of before? Has a review ever made you want to make a major change to your story?

 Yes yes yes. And it always turns out better.

32) How badly do you want to write for Smallville or at least rewrite some of the seasons?

 I would LOVE to write for Smallville. But not too badly. I wouldn’t start a campaign or anything.

33) Do you see Chloe and Lex or other Smallville characters in different television shows or movies? Meaning, do you watch a movie like Star Wars and start thinking that Lex is just like Han Solo?

 Yes. Yes, I do that all the time. I like thinking that Lex and Chloe are the leads in any Asian Drama I watch because it’s a good fit. Finding Mr. Perfect? That has Lex and Chloe ALL over it.

34) What do you think AM and MR would say about your fics if they read them? How would you feel if someone from the show did read your writings?

 They would get dirty ideas and look at one another with a new light. Or that’s what I wish.

35) If you could have any super power, what would it be and why? Would you use it for good or evil?

 I would like to walk through walls. At first, I would use it for evil. I would rob a few banks. But then, I would feed the poor all over the world.

There seem to have been a few times and places that were a nexus of art, civilization, politics, philosophy and history. Those are the times I would visit – Athens at the time of Socrates, Byzantium at the time of Justinian and Theodora, Florence at the time of Michelangelo and the Medicis. I wouldn’t want to stay in any of those places long-term though. I like my computer and my ibuprofen too much.
2) Have you ever met anyone famous?

Not really. I talked to Jimmy Buffet in a traffic jam in Knoxville, TN once. And I’m acquainted with some semi-famous writers.

3) Who is your favorite author, alive or dead, and why?

I can’t narrow it down to one. Poets are harder for me to decide between, but my favorite novelists are probably Charlotte Bronte and Guy Gavriel Kay.

4) What is your favorite book and why?

I can’t decide on one for this either. But the books that have had the greatest impact on me are Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana. I really think Little Women helped shape the way I understood myself growing up. And reading Tigana is, hands down, the most emotionally powerful experience I’ve ever had with a book.

5) What is your favorite television show and why?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my favorite. I think it’s probably the best written show I’ve ever watched and it’s one that I still find incredibly compelling. I also loved the first three seasons of The West Wing and the first two seasons of Alias.

6) Do people in your Real Life know that you are a member of NS?

Just my sister.

7) Do people in your Real Life know that you read/write fanfiction?

Just my sister. I have an academic career and reputation that wouldn’t work well with fanfiction notoriety. Although, I’ll say that I know (either directly or indirectly) of many, many other professional academics who read or write fanfiction.

8.) When did you first decide to move from writing fanfiction to writing professionally? Had you always planned to write professionally and fanfic was the hobby or did the transition come through writing fanfic?

I actually started with professional fiction writing. I’ve written all my life, and I had a few different fiction manuscripts that were agented and marketed, but my fiction has never been a good fit for genre conventions so nothing really panned out. So I was burned out on writing for a few years before I randomly started writing fanfiction, and that really helped me cultivate the craft of narrative and revived my love for writing. It was a natural move to go back to writing professionally.

9) How did you find the place to sell your work? Was there major research involved or just a bit of fate & faith?

I’ve done a lot of market research now, but honestly, when I first submitted Renaissance to EC, I’d done almost no research. EC seemed to be the biggest publisher of erotic romance, so I just submitted a proposal. A lot of luck involved there. EC wasn’t a good long-term fit for me though and neither was erotic romance. The genre is unfortunately limited in terms of depth and quality. Some of it is very well-written (a lot of it isn’t) but few readers are looking for fiction with any depth – and that’s where I’m not a good fit.

10) How much effort was involved in switching a work over from Chlex fanfiction to Original work?

Some of the stories weren’t (or wouldn’t have been) hard –Renaissance was fairly AU as it was and the Smallville backstory wasn’t a significance feature in the fic. But even Nameless, which I still think might have had potential, was harder than I expected. I found it easier to just start from scratch and write original fiction.

11) How did you choose which stories would work best for Original fiction?

I only chose stories that fit basically into the romance genre narrative pattern (many of my stories don’t) and that aren’t as deeply ingrained in the Smallville canon. Irrevocable and Untouchable would have been impossible since the entire plot is grounded in events on the show. Anything that includes Clark as a superhero makes it difficult too.

12) Are you currently working on any writing: fanfiction or original?

I’ve been working primarily on nonfiction for the last year or two. It’s good for my career and I’m actually making money with it, but I just don’t have the passion for nonfiction that I do for fiction, so I’ve got to get back to fiction pretty soon.

13) Which story (stories), fanfiction or original, are you most proud of? Which took the most effort to write? Which gave the best fan response?

In terms of fanfiction, I’m probably most proud of Irrevocable. I really like how it came together. And it’s one of the stories I want to go back and reread the most. I also love rereading Road Tripping (although I fully recognize its limitations). And In Experience turned out far, far better than I ever expected when I started. As far as my original erotic fiction is concerned, I think Complicated is the best – and I was thrilled that I managed to develop a full story in so few chapters.

14) What (if any) other fandoms do you read/write for and why?

I wrote a couple of Harry Potter stories, but that was mostly for my sister (who is a huge HP fan). I’ve briefly considered some other fandoms but nothing has inspired me like Chlex.

15) What type of environment do you need to write? For example: extreme quiet, blaring music, subtle background noise, etc.

It honestly doesn’t matter. I can write with the television on or off, at a desk or on my couch or on my bed. Eating, drinking or none of the above. The only thing I rarely do is play music when I write. I don’t know why – I just never have.

16) How do your ideas come to you? Do you always write them or do you let them disappear?

I get ideas all the time – most of them never turn into stories. Sometimes, if I particularly like an idea, I’ll keep coming back to it and try developing it in my brain. If I can’t let it go, that’s when I’ll start writing it. I actually still have a couple of Chlex ideas that I’d love to write, if I ever go through another Chlex phase.

17) Do you ever input certain aspects about yourself into the lives of Chloe and Lex? For example: Do you have Chloe listen to your favorite song or have Lex watch your favorite movie?

Yes, yes, yes, of course. I think this is inevitable. I think the farther my stories went into AU, the more this happened (either intentionally or not). For instance, Chloe in Renaissance and Glow was more like me than Chloe in the Lessons stories or Road Tripping. I think my Lex’s sense of humor is a lot like mine – more so than we actually see on the show. And I would often throw in things I was interested in while writing. I was going through a Provence love-affair when I wrote Glow. I was teaching Victorian literature when I wrote Irrevocable. That sort of thing.

18) Do you associate your writing with any songs even if it isn’t a songfic?

Never. I don’t know why. I love music but it has never really inspired me creatively. I’ve never even considered writing a songfic.

19) Do you prefer writing easy, quick stories or long, layered stories?

I think the answer to this one should be fairly obvious to anyone who has read my stories.

20) Which do you find easier to write: dialogue or description or are the equally hard/easy?

Dialogue is by far the easiest for me. Sex scenes are the hardest. Narration, exposition, description, action etc. fall somewhere in the middle, depending on the story context and my mood.

21) Is there anything that you won’t write or feel uncomfortable writing?

I’m not sure there is any content I would consider completely off-limits. I have trouble writing sex scenes of things I don’t find personally sexy (the anal sex scene in terza rima was incredibly hard for me to write). The only things I would say I’d never write are things I’d consider morally wrong (like rape that is written as eroticized or something like that).

22) What advice can you give to new writers who might be scared to post their stories?

Writing is only half-done if it isn’t shared. While writing for oneself can be good practice or can be therapeutic, that’s all it can be if you aren’t willing to let other people read it. It’s scary but it’s worth it.

23) Have you ever read someone else’s fanfic and wished you thought of the idea first?

Yes, occasionally. But usually the ideas I like are from writers I really respect, so I know they handled them better than I would have.

24) Have you ever wanted someone else to write your story idea?

Never. For some reason, that has never occurred to me.

25) Have you ever had a review that made you think something about your story that you never thought of before? Has a review ever made you want to make a major change to your story?

Absolutely – both praise and criticism has helped me think about my stories better and more deeply than I might have otherwise. I’ve never significantly changed a story because of one review or even a lot of reviews. I generally stick to the plan I started with, but the nuances of my fics were often influenced by reviews. I think those of you who have read my fics from the beginning can see where I’ve responded to reviewers’ questions or concerns in the story itself. I also like to make shout-outs in my stories to reviewers or reviews.

26) How badly do you want to write for Smallville or at least rewrite some of the seasons?

The problem with writing Smallville is that I’d have to mess around with characters who are less than interesting to me. I would have written a ChLuthor spin-off in a heartbeat, though.

27) Do you see Chloe and Lex or other Smallville characters in different television shows or movies? Meaning, do you watch a movie like Star Wars and start thinking that Lex is just like Han Solo?

I don’t do this very often. I have noticed that the male characters I generally like the most are sort of like Lex and that the female characters I usually respond to are kind of like Chloe.

28) What do you think AM and MR would say about your fics if they read them? How would you feel if someone from the show did read your writings?

I don’t really know! I think I might be kind of embarrassed since I put their characters in so many graphic sex scenes.

1) If you could visit any place at any time period, where would you go and what would you do?

No laughing.

I used to always dream of living during medieval times. Knights in shining armor and huge, sprawling castles. Fair maidens in gorgeous gowns and fire breathing dragons (hush! In my world, they existed). Perilous quests and broadswords. Of course, eventually I realized that all the romantic aspects of my fantasies, besides being probably mostly historically inaccurate, weren’t really worth the almost non-existent sanitation and hygiene.

Now I think I’d rather visit Woodstock, though there probably wasn’t a huge improvement in the sanitation and hygiene departments. I’ve always felt that if I was around in the 60′s I’d have been a hippie for sure. All that peace and love and long, flowing skirts, flowers in your hair, and best of all, really, really great music!

2) Have you ever met anyone famous?

Does Morris the cat (or one of the felines who played him anyway) count? If not, then no.

Though, when I was 15 I did nearly meet the members of Mr. Big. The mother of one of my good friends was the lead singer’s cousin and we were supposed to go backstage after the show. Unfortunately, the band was exhausted and had a lot of driving to do to get to their next gig, so instead we each got a rose from them and that was that.

I never met them myself but the cast of North Country was in our little town for a couple months a few years back. The movie’s based on a true story that happened here so a number of scenes were filmed up this way. There was a casting call beforehand, and everyone from the area was encouraged to try out for bit roles. I didn’t make it but my husband did and you can catch a glimpse of him during a town hall meeting. While they were here, the actors hung around town a lot and a friend of mine partied at one of the local bowling alleys with Woody Harrelson.

3) If you could meet any famous person, alive or dead, who would it be and what would you say/do?

Shallow answer first:

David Tennant. As for what I’d say/do…I know we’re all adults here, but I’m thinking that’s probably TMI. Or better yet, David Tennant, James Marsters, and Michael Rosenbaum, all at the same time. Oh, yeah, baby!

Non-shallow answer:

John Lennon. He was such an amazing singer/songwriter, and all around fascinating person. I’d love to have the chance to just sit down and talk with him about everything from music to his world views.

4) If you could switch lives with any person, who would you choose and why? If you want to switch with a person who is dead, we’ll assume that you wanted to live their life while he/she was alive.

Hm. I guess there’s no one specific but I’ve always wanted to be a good singer so I suppose I’d pick someone with a really amazing voice.

5) Who is your favorite author, alive or dead, and why?

That’s a tough one. Partly because I have a hard time picking favorites, and partly because lately all I read is fanfic. If I had to choose a published author, it’d be a toss-up between Ray Bradbury and Donna Gillespie. I’ve always loved the twists that Bradbury writes in his short stories, and the Illustrated Man was such an amazing concept (tattoos that come to life and tell a story) that I’ve been in awe of him ever since. Gillespie wrote one of my favorite books of all time (see #6) and I really love the way she takes history and fiction and melds them together into an accurate and fascinating story.

6) What is your favorite book and why?

The Light Bearer by Donna Gillespie. It’s an epic love story set in ancient Rome that reminds me a lot of Gladiator, only with a female lead. It has just about everything you could ask for in a book (an ill-fated romance, political intrigue, a historically accurate portrayal of ancient times, and lots and lots of drama and angst) and is written so well you become instantly invested in the characters. It’s the only book I’ve ever read more than once (I think I’ve read it four times now).

7) Who is your favorite singer, alive or dead, and why?

Hands down, John Lennon. Why? It’s John Lennon; do I really need to say more?

8.) What is your favorite song and why?

LOL! That’s a good one. There’s no way, out of the plethora of good music out there, I could choose only one.

Some notable mentions: Imagine, Me and Bobby McGee, Dream On, 21 Guns (the American Idiots version, Cy got me hooked), After the Bombs (if you’ve never listened to the Decemberists, go to Youtube and give them a listen, go! Go now!), Home Sweet Home, and The Rose.

9) What is your favorite movie and why?

Another hard question and another one that I can’t simply give one answer to.

Some favorites include: Bram Stoker’s Dracula, I Am Sam, Pay it Forward, Labyrinth, The Neverending Story, Almost Famous, The Blair Witch Project (one of only a few horror movies that actually scares) and The Princess Bride.

10) What is your favorite television show and why?

Absolute favorite? Hm. I guess I’d have to say Doctor Who (I mean, who doesn’t love British sci-fi shows?). Other than that I also love Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Smallville, House MD, CSI (the original), Hell’s Kitchen, and American Idol.

11) Who is your favorite actor/actress, alive or dead, and why?

Favorite actor is definitely David Tennant. He’s amazingly versatile, extremely believable, has the most expressive eyes, and did I mention he’s hot? Favorite actress…hm, I don’t think I have one, though I’m a big fan of Allison Mack and Billie Piper.

12) What is the one movie/television show that you would never admit to family, friends, co-workers that you watch? Yes, I know asking defeats the point, but spill your guts anyway.

I don’t think there’s any. I’m a fairly open person and I usually share things with my family and friends, whether they want me to or not. The only exception would be Smallville when I first started watching. A good friend of mine had been begging me to give it a chance and I kept telling her I wasn’t interested in the least. So when I finally did take the plunge, I was kind of embarrassed to admit it to her.

13) Do people in your Real Life know that you are a member of NS?

Yup.

14) Do people in your Real Life know that you read/write fanfiction?

They couldn’t not! I’m pretty sure they’re all quite bored of listening to me go on and on about my countless story ideas.

15) When did you first start reading fanfiction?

Three years ago? Maybe four.

16) When did you first get started in writing fanfiction?

Same time as #15. It was after the Stargate SG1 series finale aired. I was a huge Daniel/Vala shipper and when he made her cry during Unending it had so much angst potential that I just had to take the scene and run with it, take it someplace the writer’s hadn’t.

17) Is fanfic writing just a hobby for you or do you hope to go further with your writing?

For now it’s just a hobby. However, writing has always been a great love of mine and the idea of getting into it as a career has never been far from my mind. I have a couple of original fic ideas that I’ve been playing with the past few months and one day I might just write them. Then again, my intense fear of rejection might prevent me from actually trying to get anything published.

18) When you aren’t writing awesome fanfics, what do you do and/or want to be doing?

Spending time with my kids, watching Smallville with my husband. Picking up after my kids and my husband. *G* I also enjoy playing video games, reading, watching movies, and cross-stitching.

19) How and why did you first get interested in Chlex? What do you like most about the characters? What do you hate about them?

You can all blame Sinecure for getting me started on Chlex. I was her Doctor Who beta and she had a Chlex entry for the Porn Battle over on LJ that she asked me to take a look at. I ended up enjoying the story so much she sent me all of her other stories for the ship (and trust me, there was a lot), and I was hooked. Signed up for an account here, read nearly all of Zannie’s fics, and then I started watching the show (yeah, so I did things a little backwards, but I’ve never liked doing things the way I’m supposed to).

I’m not sure there’s really anything that I don’t like about the characters. I mean, they wouldn’t be who they are if say, Chloe hadn’t crushed on Clark for so long. Of course, depending on the day, I’m either cursing or applauding Lex’s evil side. As for what I love about them…with Chloe I think it’s her attitude and the way she smiles, with Lex it’s the way he tries so hard to do what’s right (even if his version might be slightly skewed from the rest of the world) and the little scar on his upper lip (it’s the stuff of many hot fantasies!).

20) How and why did you first get interested in writing Chlex fanfiction?

See the first part of #19.

21) Is there anything while reading Chlex fanfiction that you really hate?

Chlex specific? Lana or Lois bashing. But I’m anti-character bashing period.

22) What (if any) other fandoms do you read/write for and why?

Nothing currently. Chlex has taken over my life for the time being. In the past, I’ve written for Stargate SG1, Doctor Who, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Most of them I’ve gotten into for specific ships and because of specific episodes/scenes (Stargate it was Daniel/Vala and a scene in Unending, Doctor Who it was the Doctor/Rose and the scene at the end of Doomsday), Buffy however, I was introduced to via Sinecure’s Spillow fics and ended up liking the ship enough that I decided to watch the show.

23) What type of environment do you need to write? For example: extreme quiet, blaring music, subtle background noise, etc.

I used to be able to write no matter what was going on around me; kids screaming, dog barking, husband trying to seduce me. Now I need almost complete silence. Which sucks because I like having a soundtrack for my fics but listening to them now just distracts me too much (read: I start singing along more than writing).

24) How do your ideas come to you? Do you always write them or do you let them disappear?

Depends. Sometimes it’s a scene in an episode that grabs me, begs me to do something different with it, sometimes the idea just comes from out of nowhere. Sometimes I try to force them, which never turns out good (kids, don’t do this at home). Typically I write down at least a vague summary of the idea, other times I just let it percolate a bit in my head before I do anything with it.

25) Do you plan a story from the beginning to end or start with an idea and let the chapters come to you as they do?

It depends on the type of story I’m writing. When I was still in the Doctor Who fandom, me and Sinecure did a series of stories called Glimpses, which were meant to be little peeks into the Doctor and Rose’s lives. The fics were inspired by song lyrics or a quote or even, on occasion, a picture, and I’d almost always write them in one quick sitting, with no planning whatsoever. Longer one-shots and chaptered stories I have the tendency to try to plot out every last detail before I sit down to write…a habit Cy’s been trying to break me of because it oftentimes ends up holding me back, making it more difficult for me to actually finish anything.

26) Do you ever input certain aspects about yourself into the lives of Chloe and Lex? For example: Do you have Chloe listen to your favorite song or have Lex watch your favorite movie?

I don’t believe I’ve ever done this, in Chlex fics or any others I’ve written.

27) Do you associate your writing with any songs even if it isn’t a songfic?

All the time. If it hasn’t been obvious from this interview so far, music plays a very important role in my writing and my life. I think most of my best fics started from song lyrics.

28) Do you prefer writing easy, quick stories or long, layered stories?

Again, there is no right or wrong answers here. Sometimes I prefer the shorter (though not necessarily easier) ones, other times I want something I can really sink my teeth into. Though I do have the oftentimes frustrating habit of finding ways to turn quick one-shots into huge epics that will take years to write.

29) Which do you find easier to write: dialogue or description or are the equally hard/easy?

If you’d asked me this back when I was writing Doctor Who fic, I would’ve said descriptions are the hands down easiest to write. Dialogue never came easily to me in that fandom, maybe because I’m not British. With Chlex I think it’s about equal, though Lex’s dialogue is a lot easier than Chloe’s.

30) Is there anything that you won’t write or feel uncomfortable writing?

I’m a pretty easy going person and can’t think of any idea that I wouldn’t at least consider writing. Yes, there are some things that I’m not fond of (fluff!), but if a really great plot comes along, I could very well end up being convinced to write it. Of course, when I say I’ll write just about anything, I mean within reason. I won’t write incest, and though I’ve done a few mixed fics, I’m not entirely sure I’d write pure slash (though once again, if the plot/idea is good enough to draw me in, I’d definitely consider it–the slash, not the incest).

31) What do you do to cure writer’s block? What advice can you give to new writers who might be scared to post their stories?

If it’s a specific fic that I’m stuck on, I find the best way to get beyond the block is to walk away for a bit. If it’s enough of a block that I can’t write on anything at all then I have a few various methods that I like to use:

-The five minute prompt game (usually played with a friend). Randomly select a word (I like to use online random word generators) and then write whatever comes to mind. You have only five minutes to get as high of a word count as you can (the idea is for quantity, not quality), but if the muse takes over, then it’s certainly okay to keep going (A Distempered Tango started from two separate prompt words/games).

-The one sentence story game. Pretty self-explanatory. Write a sentence that tells as much as possible without having this huge, run-on sentence. I did this just a few weeks ago to help get over my smut-writing problems, and let me tell you, it actually worked. A variation on this game would be to play it with a friend, each of you writing one sentence at a time until you have a complete story (or you could do a paragraph at a time).

-Change it up. Sinecure had me do this with a Doctor Who fic of mine. Basically you take an already finished story (you definitely want to pick a one-shot, and preferably something relatively short) and completely change some aspect of it. So if it’s a really angsty fic, change it to fluffy, or switch the POV, change one of the characters to someone else, etc.

-Implement various methods of inspiration. Watch an episode of Smallville or make a music mix that captures the mood you’re trying to create. Also, if you’re stuck on ideas, use different prompts to get you going. Again, an episode or music may help, but take it beyond that and try pictures or quotes or poetry. The key is to seek it out in whatever avenues are available to you.

For the new writer, I’m sure everyone says this but don’t be scared to post. All of us were there at one point and time in our lives so we all know where you’re coming from. Because of that, I think most people are extremely supportive and encouraging with new authors. And I can almost guarantee that no one will bite. 

32) Have you ever read someone else’s fanfic and wished you thought of the idea first?

Sometimes. Though there’s really no completely new, original story ideas anymore, sometimes I come across one that’s so unique that I’m kind of jealous…not so much that it isn’t mine (though I do have that happen as well), but that the author was able to come up with something so different.

33) Have you ever wanted someone else to write your story idea?

Yup! I have a lot of story ideas, and at the rate that I write, there’s no way I’ll ever finish them all. That and sometimes I just think that I couldn’t do the story justice, but someone else could. Plus, who doesn’t want their favorite authors to write a story for them?

34) Are reviews vital to keep you writing or will you finish a story even if you aren’t certain people are reading?

It may be very selfish of me, but if I’m not receiving any sort of feedback (or if it’s very minimal, like only a review or two per chapter), it’s very difficult to continue a story. I think everyone wants to feel that there’s a certain amount of worth in the things they do, and without that reassurance that a story that I’m writing is appreciated and being enjoyed by others, it’s hard to see a point in finishing. Besides that, my belief in my writing abilities wavers on a daily basis, and if something I’ve posted doesn’t receive any feedback, I begin to second guess what I’ve written.

35) Have you ever had a review that made you think something about your story that you never thought of before? Has a review ever made you want to make a major change to your story?

Yes on both counts.

36) How badly do you want to write for Smallville or at least rewrite some of the seasons?

Um, not at all? I don’t think I could handle the pressure of writing for a television show, not to mention the fact that I’d probably write everyone else out and it’d end up losing the Superman storyline and would no longer be primetime safe.

37) Do you see Chloe and Lex or other Smallville characters in different television shows or movies? Meaning, do you watch a movie like Star Wars and start thinking that Lex is just like Han Solo?

Not really, no.

38) What do you think AM and MR would say about your fics if they read them? How would you feel if someone from the show did read your writings?

AM and MR are reading my fics?! *runs for the hills*

Seriously though, that possibility frightens me. I freak out enough when I send a story off to be beta’d, and especially right after I post. So honestly, I’d rather not even think about what the actors would think of my stories.

39) If you could have any super power, what would it be and why? Would you use it for good or evil?

I could be altruistic and choose the power of healing like I would have a few years back, but I think if I could have any super power at all, I’d choose super speed. Obviously, I’d use it for good over evil, but mostly I think I’d be selfish. Can you imagine the transportation costs you’d save if you could just run really, really fast to wherever you needed to go? All the places you could visit that you’d never be able to afford to fly to?

Plus…I have travel anxiety. And I mean sick to my stomach, pulse racing, feels like I’m going to have a heart attack, can’t sleep for months before a trip out of town anxiety. It’s been five years since we last visited my parents (about a three hour drive from our place) because of this fear. So super speed would be a really nice power for me.

 1) If you could visit any place at any time period, where would you go and what would you do?

The future! When there are flying cars and weekend trips to Mars. 2) Have you ever met anyone famous?

Met? Not quite. But I went to a writing convention once and Frank Marshall was there… does that count? I know I’m forgetting someone here.

 3) If you could meet any famous person, alive or dead, who would it be and what would you say/do?

I actually don’t have a burning need to meet any famous people. I’d probably just make a fool out of myself anyway.

4) If you could switch lives with any person, who would you choose and why? If you want to switch with a person who is dead, we’ll assume that you wanted to live their life while he/she was alive.

Switch lives with? Hmm. I’m boring, but no one. Not because my life is so fabulous, but I just don’t see the draw of being someone famous. Besides, if I were that person, he/she wouldn’t be the person I like so much. He/she would be me, and that wouldn’t be fabulous.

5) Who is your favorite author, alive or dead, and why?

Stephen King. Hands down. He’s the master of horror and nostalgia. I just love the way he weaves scary, interesting, fantastic stories and makes you love the characters so much.

6) What is your favorite book and why?

I don’t have a favorite. Really, anything by Stephen King. Although Desperation comes to Mind. It. The Shining. Cell. That one so needs to be made into a movie.

7) Who is your favorite singer, alive or dead, and why?

Many of them. Tom McRae is in the top three. The Decemberists. The Beatles. The Rolling Stones… so many favorites. Why? Because they make fantastic music, of course. Tom and The Decemberists are about the lyrics and the music, nothing is left out of their songs. They’re catchy and angsty and full of horrible things all at once. The Decemberists have a horrid sense of humor in their music that amuses me to no end.

8.) What is your favorite song and why?

Right now? It changes all the time. Currently it’s… anything by Tom McRae really. Right now, it’s “Summer of John Wayne”… and “The Ballad of Amelia Earhart”. Also “The Girl Who Falls Down Stairs”, and “Houdini and the Girl”. Um, yeah. All by Tom McRae. All of The Decemberists’ new album as well.

9) What is your favorite movie and why?

Don’t have one. I love a lot of movies. Um, Scream is one of my top 5. I like horror films. And Sci-fi and action. Die Hard… love those.

10) What is your favorite television show and why?

I have so many, don’t make me choose. In no specific order: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who (classic and new), Angel, Farscape, La Femme Nikita, Firefly, Alias, Leverage, Burn Notice, Eureka, Dead Like Me, Veronica Mars, The X-Files, Andromeda, Dexter, Medium, Sanctuary, How I Met Your Mother. They’re all very fantastic shows in their own way. Not all of them are the best, but I love every single one of them.

11) Who is your favorite actor/actress, alive or dead, and why?

Sheesh. Got an hour? I’ve always had trouble narrowing these things down to one. Allison Mack, Michael Rosenbaum, Christopher Walken, Tommy Lee Jones, Patrick Stewart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jodie Foster, Denzel Washington… and on and on. Why. You always want to know why. I really don’t know. I just like them a lot. I could watch them read the phone book and be entertained.

12) What is the one movie/television show that you would never admit to family, friends, co-workers that you watch? Yes, I know asking defeats the point, but spill your guts anyway.

Um, Smallville? Really, this is the show that I want to cringe away from admitting to watching. Movie? So many. None that I can actually remember/think of right now.

13) Do people in your Real Life know that you are a member of NS?

Some do. Not that I go around explaining what it is. They know I belong to Smallville boards and am in the fandom online.

14) Do people in your Real Life know that you read/write fanfiction and make fanart?

Yep. No, I don’t show them. They probably suspect that I write smut, but… I don’t talk about it.

15) When did you first start reading fanfiction?

About 1999? I mention it down there in question #22. Between seasons 3 and 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It started with Spike/Buffy, but I kept seeing a bunch for Spike/Willow and I got curious. I wondered why anyone would pair those two up. I was hooked with the first one I read. I think it was called Shattered. Wow. I should find it. Anyway, I read more and more and then started writing it myself. Spike/Willow is my OTP for BtVS.

16) When did you first get started in writing fanfiction/making fanart?

About 2000 or 2001. That’s when the fanfic started. The art started before that. Really badly done banners and captioned caps for my website that is gone now, yay.

17) Is fanfic writing just a hobby for you or do you hope to go further with your writing?

It’s just a hobby. Though I dabble/dabbled with original stories for a while.

18) When you aren’t writing awesome fanfics or making fanart, what do you do and/or want to be doing?

I read, watch tv, go outside and live life to some extent. I watch movies, I see family and friends. Nothing exciting like Martian Ballroom Dancing or Planetary Judo competitions… yet. *eyes the future*

19) How and why did you first get interested in Chlex? What do you like most about the characters? What do you hate about them?

Someone on my friends list on LiveJournal talked about the show a lot. I finally decided to watch it when the 5th season was starting to air. I went through the show very quickly and by the time I got to season 3 I was a Chlex lover. Their chemistry and their similar lives just grabbed me and never let me go again. I love everything about them; the lightness, the dark, the areas in between, the protectiveness he showed toward her, even as he was being selfish. Just… everything about them is chemistry and potential.

I hate that the writers never gave them a chance on the show because they would’ve been so frelling hot. They’d have made Clark and Lana look like 5-year-olds playing house, and that scared them. Then again, I’m also glad that we never got the horrible ending and bad writing that would’ve come from the writers getting a hold of these two.

20) How and why did you first get interested in writing Chlex fanfiction and making fanart?

I got into Chlex fic rather quickly while watching the show. I stopped watching in season 5 because I couldn’t stand the crap and the Lexana headed toward the screen. And Lois. I found NS pretty early on, devoured the fic there, and started to write my own. My computer crashed and I lost it all, then moved on to Doctor Who. Came back after leaving the DW fandom and regained my fics from my old computer drive and I’m working on getting them all written and fixed and… yeah, my characterization was bad.

21) Is there anything while reading Chlex fanfiction that you really like/hate? Anything in fanart?

Yes.

22) What (if any) other fandoms do you read/write/make fanart for and why?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That’s the first fandom I got into years ago. During the break between seasons 3 and 4 I went looking for spoilers–didn’t know that was what they were called at the time–and found something called fanfic. I was hooked from that moment on. I made horrible art and started writing. Got better at both, started posting. The rest is history.

Doctor Who. That’s my second fandom that I started writing for. I loved the love story between the Doctor and Rose, and didn’t see enough of what I wanted to see on the show, so I sought out fic. Funnily enough, I stayed away from the smut fics, feeling it was just wrong… but gradually I read some. Then more. Then I began to write it myself, and became a sort of smut whore for Doctor Who.

I’ve done artwork for way too many fandoms to name here. I do icons–avatars–for nearly every show I’ve gotten into. To name a few: Alias, Veronica Mars, Charmed, Supernatural, Buffy, Angel, My So-Called Life, Dexter, Farscape, the two main Stargates… and on and on. I just love making icons and banners and wallpapers.

23) What type of environment do you need to write and/or make fanart? For example: extreme quiet, blaring music, subtle background noise, etc.

Depends. For fics, I can work with blaring music, tv going, talking to someone online, whatever. Same with art. Art I can do while doing anything, I don’t need a lot of focus and concentration for artwork. Fics, I go back and forth. Sometimes I need complete silence, other times, I like music to be playing, or to guide my thoughts along a certain route.

24) How do your ideas come to you? Do you always write them or do you let them disappear?

I try to write them down as ideas, then leave them and go back to what I’m working on. More often I end up writing them all out and working on 50 billion fics at once.

25) Do you plan a story from the beginning to end or start with an idea and let the chapters come to you as they do?

I get an idea, a line, a prompt word, a thought, something basic and simple, and I write from there. If it’s a long fic, I’ll plot it out to some extent, but not every little detail. That’s too limiting, and I’ve learned my lesson with that. It boxes me in and I feel like I have to follow that plan and it kills my imagination.

26) Do you ever input certain aspects about yourself into the lives of Chloe and Lex? For example: Do you have Chloe listen to your favorite song or have Lex watch your favorite movie?

Occasionally, though I can’t remember specifics. Nothing major, just a like or a dislike. A feeling of being sick when I feel sick. Little things like that. Once I had a character dream about a show that I liked and I still cringe when I think about it. I hate referencing things like that in fic. It pulls me out of the story, but I was young and stupid then.

27) Do you associate your writing with any songs even if it isn’t a songfic?

I’ve written stories based on a song, or a lyric. I often listen to a song on repeat while I’m writing a fic or chapter.

28) Do you prefer writing easy, quick stories or long, layered stories?

Quick. I tend to do quick one-shots because they’re so much easier. No answers beyond what you write are needed, no completion beyond your ending. I also like longer ones. I’m writing quite a few right now, and they’re kicking my butt. In the Doctor Who fandom, momdaegmorgan and I created “Glimpses” series, short, one-shots that showed glimpses of the Doctor and Rose’s lives together throughout years, all un-connected. I loved writing those.

The longer ones are harder for me, but I’m trying.

29) Which do you find easier to write: dialogue or description or are the equally hard/easy?

Oh, boy. Ask me at any time of the day and you’ll get a different answer each time. I have trouble with all of it. Sometimes all of it is easy, most times it’s just hard. It also depends on the fandom and the pairing. Smallville is hard. Lex is really hard.

Doctor Who… I find the Tenth Doctor easy to write, Rose and Nine? Not so much.

Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer comes so easily to me, but Spike doesn’t.

So, it really depends.

30) Is there anything that you won’t write or feel uncomfortable writing?

Mpreg. That is never, ever going to be written by me. M/M slash. Not because I’m uncomfortable with it, I just have no interest in any M/M slash pairings. I’ve written borderline F/F slash for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

31) What do you do to cure writer’s block? What advice can you give to new writers who might be scared to post their stories?

I cure writer’s block by writing. There’s no other way to get past it aside from ignoring the story and moving on to another fic. If that’s blocked too? I just sit down and make myself write.

I’d say post and feel good about yourself. No matter what, you wrote something that, hopefully, you like and are proud of, and that’s an awesome feat.

32) Have you ever read someone else’s fanfic and wished you thought of the idea first?

All. The. Time. I am always coming across fics that use ideas that I wish I’d thought of first.

33) Have you ever wanted someone else to write your story idea?

Yes! I’ve actually given away story ideas and helped plot them.

34) Are reviews vital to keep you writing or will you finish a story even if you aren’t certain people are reading?

They’re vital for my writing self-esteem. I’ll probably write regardless, but if I feel like no one is reading my stories, I get discouraged easily. I know, I know, I should write for myself, and blah, blah, but everyone feels better when they get feedback or comments or reviews. Everyone.

35) Have you ever had a review that made you think something about your story that you never thought of before? Has a review ever made you want to make a major change to your story?

Yeah, there were a few on my Doctor Who fics that made me include some things I hadn’t thought about before. Nothing major though.

36) How badly do you want to write for Smallville or at least rewrite some of the seasons?

The show would have to move to the Playboy channel if I wrote for it, and most of the other characters would be gone. I’d love to rewrite all of it with a Chlex theme, but I’m way too lazy.

37) Do you see Chloe and Lex or other Smallville characters in different television shows or movies? Meaning, do you watch a movie like Star Wars and start thinking that Lex is just like Han Solo? Perhaps use those ideas to make manips?

Nope. Not really.

38) What do you think AM and MR would say about your fics if they read them? Or if they saw your fanart? How would you feel if someone from the show did read your writings?

Hm, I’d hope they’d be like an actor from a certain show that actually came across someone’s NC-17 fic on LiveJournal and left nice comments to the author. I’d probably end up with a restraining order though.

39) If you could have any super power, what would it be and why? Would you use it for good or evil?

I couldn’t choose. All of them. I’d use them for both. There is no purely good or purely evil. I’m a lover of the gray area… in fic anyway.

1) Who is your favorite author, alive or dead, and why?

My favourite authors are Jane Austen and her contemporary (in my opinion, with some of her books atleast) Julia Quinn. They’re both witty, funny and well-written. Yes, I’m easily pleased. 

2) What is your favorite book and why?

Definitely Pride and Prejudice. What’s not to love?

3) Who is your favorite singer, alive or dead, and why?

Definitely the DBSK boys, or atleast what’s left of them anyways. Simply because they can sing, dance, write their own song and ultimately because they looked good with or without their shirts on.
Yes I’m a perv.

4) What is your favorite song and why?

My favorite song is “Doshite (Why Did I Fall in Love with You)” by DBSK simply because its a beautiful song.

5) Do people in your Real Life know that you are a member of NS? Do people in your Real Life know that you read/write fanfiction?

To both questions the answer is yes, my sister know and read some of the fanfictions I wrote.

6) When did you first start reading fanfiction? and When did you first get started in writing fanfiction?

I first discovered the magic of fanfiction in 2006 when I was randomly googling , and since then become a member of fanfiction.net, NS and many other fanfiction sites. Even before I knew about fanfiction, I always wondered what could’ve happened if the writers of the books/shows/movies wrote with different pairings in mind or completely different storyline, so naturally I started to write my first fic.

7) Is fanfic writing just a hobby for you or do you hope to go further with your writing?

To me it’s just a hobby, to relieve stress. I would love to be paid for my writings who wouldn’t, but I think it would be to much pressure for me to complete my writings and would just beat the purpose of me writing to relieve stress.

8.) When you aren’t writing awesome fanfics, what do you do and/or want to be doing?

I’m studying chemistry so I rather not do chemistry right now.

9) How and why did you first get interested in Chlex? What do you like most about the characters? What do you hate about them? How and why did you first get interested in writing Chlex fanfiction?

I was first interested in them when I watched Smallville. I like them as individual characters, and become mortified when they decided to pair off Lex with Lana. After screaming “WHY!WHY!!WHY!!” a few times, I then asked myself why couldnt they do a smart logical thing like pairing Lex with his intellectual match Chloe. And with the power of fanfiction and similarly frustrated fans around the world, the rest is history.

10) Is there anything while reading Chlex fanfiction that you really like/hate?

I really hate it when fanfiction writers make Lex into this sweet and fluffy, sugarcoated, corn-fed guy when basically everything we like about Lex is because we know he is not all those things. He is probably not evil, but bordering on gray and only has compulsions of manipulating other peoples’ lives if it serves his purpose. But then again, I’m probably guilty of the same thing. Because who doesnt love a happy ending? And you can’t give a happy ending to a bad Lex. And I blame the fairy tales that were fed to us when we were little children that only very good and almost saintly people gets a happy ending.

11) Do you plan a story from the beginning to end or start with an idea and let the chapters come to you as they do?

I usually plan the basic storyline from the beginning to the middle and then to the end so I will not get distracted. But I usually just let the filler chapters come to me as they do, so that’s why I usually get stuck writting a filler chapter.

12) Do you associate your writing with any songs even if it isn’t a songfic?

Sometimes, like my fic on this site “Letters to My Husband”, I associate it with “Doshite” by DBSK, since the melancholic melody reminds me the fic.

13) Do you prefer writing easy, quick stories or long, layered stories?

I would’ve prefered to write an easy no hassle quick story but I always end up doing long-winded, layered stories that are very hard to finish. I don’t know why. It’s like a disease.

14) Which do you find easier to write: dialogue or description or are the equally hard/easy?

Definitely dialogue is much easier to write since to me it’s much easier to put myself in the character’s place and give a response rather than description. So I usually give descriptions in form of dialogue as much as I can.

15) Is there anything that you won’t write or feel uncomfortable writing?

No. Nothing is sacred.

16) What do you do to cure writer’s block? What advice can you give to new writers who might be scared to post their stories?

When I read an encouraging review or just a review, it usually made me work twice as hard on the fic which in turn cure my writer’s block. HINT!HINT!HINT!

To new writers, don’t be scared to post your stories, because there is nothing like reading the first review for your first fic.

17) Have you ever wanted someone else to write your story idea?

Yes, I wish someone else could write all my ideas, since I’m more of a reader than a writer. So I could read the fic without the hassle of writing it.

18) Are reviews vital to keep you writing or will you finish a story even if you aren’t certain people are reading?

YES.

19) How badly do you want to write for Smallville or at least rewrite some of the seasons?

Very badly, I would trade my voodoo dolls of the writers of Smallville for a chance to rewrite the whole entire series from the beginning. It had such good potential to be something different from everything else on tv, but then when I saw the first episode, and the first scene where they introduced Lana’s character, I knew that they were going to make it like all those pink princess worshipping shows and completely ignore the stronger and less ditzy and confused female character. But I was young and naive, and continued to have faith for two seasons that they would not succumb to the pinkiness. Then, I just stop watching altogether, to save myself from all the frustrations.

20) What do you think AM and MR would say about your fics if they read them? How would you feel if someone from the show did read your writings?

MR would probably choke me and kill me for killing him too early (or not but since I haven’t met him I dont know what he would do, but if it was me, I would choke myself and kill me too ) I dont know what AM would say, but I rather not have anyone from the show reading my fic, and get any funny ideas of killing off Lex character and substituting Chloe in my fic with She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Mentioned (Lana). But wait a minute…. they already did that, in different sequence but the same nonetheless.

21) If you could have any super power, what would it be and why? Would you use it for good or evil?

I would love to have the control over space and time. If you can control time and space you basically control everything. Just imagined the things I could do. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!(cue lightning and thunderstorm, and the sounds of puppies everywhere whimpering in pain). It is safe to say I would use it for evil.

hfce is one of the forum’s original and still active members ~ Mindy

Interview: hfce

1) If you could visit any place at any time period, where would you go and what would you do?

I would go back and visit when Jesus was born. I would love to see him as a baby. LOL!!!

2) Have you ever met anyone famous?

No unless you count seeing Phillip Michael Thomas from Miami Vice driving down the same street as me and my friend. LOL!!

3) If you could meet any famous person, alive or dead, who would it be and what would you say/do?

There are so many I want to meet that I have no clue who it would be and what I would say or do to them.

4) If you could switch lives with any person, who would you choose and why?

I would love to switch places with Wonder Woman. I always wanted to wear her outfit and fly the invisible plane and use the lasso of truth on people. That is so cool.

5) Who is your favorite author, alive or dead, and why?

I love Mya Angelou because her words just speak to me . I feel inspired when she writes and want to do more with my life.

Read the entire interview with hfce over at the forums!

1) If you could visit any place at any time period, where would you go and what would you do?

I studied Latin and Roman history in high school, so I think it would be fascinating to experience the Pax Romana. I also quite like the idea of Regency England. I am built for the ideal of beauty in that time – dresses that showcase pale skin and an ample bosom.

I also like the idea of living in a time when each brief touch between men and women was overwhelming because it was so rare, when each dance together was a revelation in body language and contact. I find the anticipation and weight given to each touch sexy.

2) Have you ever met anyone famous?

Most of the famous people I’ve encountered are on the political/legal end of the spectrum. I’ve met or been within spitting distance of all of the 2008 Democratic candidates for president except Hilary. I’ve met Chief Justice John Roberts and spent some time with former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno.

In terms of celebrities, I did give Maura Tierney (Abby on ER) directions to get out of a building once. She was very nice, if distracted.

Read the entire interview over at NS Forums!

Okay, this is going to sound really weird, but I would go back to April 14, 1865 and try to save Abraham Lincoln. I’ve always wondered about the butterfly effect, and what would happen if I could change a major point in history. I would have to choose that one.

Barring that, I’d at least be the one to collect the pistol used. Did you know that people just clustered about and picked up souvenirs? Seriously bad police work back then.

It has always seemed like fun to be able to visit New York or Chicago in the 1930’s. At least it looks like fun on TV.

I would probably just walk around enjoying the scenery and study the people. Listen to jazz and blues.

If I could avoid getting eaten, I would want to visit the dinosaur period! That would be really cool, to see these creatures in the flesh!

2) Have you ever met anyone famous?

*Thinks real hard*. I have met one comedian in Norway, can’t remember his name though. He hosted a trick-people show years ago, and my class was a part of one of the plays I remember. That was kind of fun, being a stunt person on a TV show.

I have seen the current prime minister in Norway on the street, but that’s nothing big as you can get real up close and personal with them here in Oslo.

3) If you could meet any famous person, alive or dead, who would it be and what would you say/do?

There’s not anyone in particular I’d like to meet. Perhaps meeting someone like Ella Fitzgerald and listening to them perform live in a smokey club! Lol!

If I could have a small fangirl-moment, I would probably want to meet Tomohisa Yamashita, a Japanese actor and singer. I’m a huge fan of his, and always watch his appearances and series. He just seems like a really nice and down to earth person. What I would do to him? *cough…*. Haha, no seriously, it would just be fun to do something simple like having lunch and talking.

4) If you could switch lives with any person, who would you choose and why? If you want to switch with a person who is dead, we’ll assume that you wanted to live their life while he/she was alive.

Hm, I actually like my own life very well, but sometimes I wish I could trade places with my best friend. She has a wonderful husband, a great apartment and from the looks of it a great life.

But, we all have our problems, it’s just not always apparent to the other person looking

5) Who is your favorite author, alive or dead, and why?

At the moment it’s probably either Liza Marklund (Swedish author) or Natsuo Kirino (Japanese author). Marklund writes really excellent crime stories based in Stockholm. I read Kirino because I love Japanese culture, she writes really well and it’s fun reading stories from places I’ve been.

6) What is your favorite book and why?

Hm, perhaps Natsuo Kirino’s “Out”, a crime thriller based in Tokyo. It’s probably my favourite because I recognize some of the street names in the book, and it’s really well written and I had a hard time putting it down because it was really good. A bit grotesque, but awesome nonetheless!

7) Who is your favorite singer, alive or dead, and why?

I don’t really have one favourite, I tend to switch a lot depending on my mood. At the moment I listen a lot to Meisa Kuroki (Japanese), Koda Kumi (Japanese), Rain (Korean), Wang Dong Cheng (Taiwanese) and Danson Tang Yu Zhe (Taiwanese).

8.) What is your favorite song and why?

Woah, my favourite song changes from week to week I’m afraid. I don’t have an all-time favourite, but my favourites at the moment is “Do you hear the alarm?” and “THIS IS CRAZY” by Meisa Kuroki (Japanese singer).

I just really like the rhythm of the songs! It’s seldom I pay attention to the lyrics really, I’m more into the rhythm of songs and how they make me feel that way.

Do you hear the alarm: http://www.last.fm/music/%E9%BB%92%E…r+the+Alarm%3F

This is crazy: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8z…razy_lifestyle

9) What is your favorite movie and why?

I have two that I can think of at this moment. One is Twister, a tornado movie with Helen Hunt. It’s old, but still awesome. It’s a really good action movie, especially with a surround system.

The other is Jack Frost, a cute Christmas story about a guy who turns into a snowman I love watching it during the holidays as it’s a really nice Christmas movie

10) What is your favorite television show and why?

Hm. Difficult question as I like to watch a lot of different series, and from different parts of the world. I watch a lot of American and Japanese series, with some Taiwanese and Thai series as well.

One of my all time favourites though, is Firefly. It was really cool and entertaining, and it’s a shame it got cancelled :/

I also really like Roswell (mostly season 1 and 2, not so much 3). It’s a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, as I know it’s a silly and teeny series, but I can’t help but like the lovey dovey mushy storyline.

11) Who is your favorite actor/actress, alive or dead, and why?

I have to say Angelina Jolie, lol. I don’t know why, I just like her. I think she does a great job displaying different characters.

12) What is the one movie/television show that you would never admit to family, friends, co-workers that you watch? Yes, I know asking defeats the point, but spill your guts anyway.

Well, I probably wouldn’t tell too many people that I watched the Hannah Montana movie on the plane home from Thailand, and liked it

13) When and why did you decide to create NS?

NS was originally a merge with two sites, my own and Warunee’s Chlex based websites. We decided to join ours together to create a more central place for Chlex and it’s fans. With the help of other fans and our members, the site grew quite big and we invested in the forums as you guys know it today.

14) Do people in your Real Life know that you are the admin for NS?

Some people know, but not everyone. Those who know thinks it has a funny name, but think it’s cool I’ve managed to build up such an active community. I remember telling one guy about it, and at first he laughed at it, but when he saw I had a lot of members and new ones joining each day he thought it was slightly impressive.

15) When you aren’t solving problems on the board and using the bitchstick, what do you do and/or want to be doing?

I’m always looking for ways to improve NS, such as making new themes for the forums, adding new features for the forums, making new network sites etc etc.

Off the Internet I try and hang out with friends, drink lots of coffee and study Japanese. I also read books and watch a lot of TV, probably too much TV

16) What is the hardest part of running NS?

Hm. These days it pretty much runs itself. Before it was a bit difficult to keep everything managed as I didn’t have much staff or moderators helping me out. But now that I do have an awesome staff I can concentrate more on making NS even better .

Perhaps coming up with new refreshing ideas that will make the community grow, that’s pretty hard sometimes.

17) What is your creative process when making banners and skins for the site?

I don’t have a particular process, I just often listen to music and have Photoshop open and play with images, and suddenly I’m on the verge of making something I think might be cool.

I often find inspiration from other members and artists online, and just play around in Photoshop.

18) How and why did you first get interested in Chlex? What do you like most about the characters? What do you hate about them?

I think it was Warunee* who got me interested in the first place. I remember she being a member of the Truthseekers on fanforums, and she urged me to join up. I guess I watched a couple of episodes or clips and found the characters interesting. I’ve usually liked the unconventional couples on shows, like Pacey/Jen on Dawson’s Creek.

I like that they speak their minds and do what they think is right. Note that I haven’t watched Smallville since season three and I know a lot about their characters have changed since then. But the season three characters I know were awesome and had a spine, unlike other characters… *cough*.

There’s nothing hate worthy in the Chlex I know. Perhaps they became more despicable in later seasons, I don’t know.

* Warunee was the co-founder and former admin on NS.

19) Why are you fascinated with Japan and Japanese culture?

I guess a big part of it is because it’s a completely different culture than my own Norwegian culture.

20) How and why did you get involved with/decided to study web design?

I’ve always been interested in computers, and started playing on it at a very young age as my dad is also very interested in this technology. I used to play kid’s games when I was smaller on a computer, and I guess it just grew from there.

I made my first website when I was around 12 years old, and found it very interesting and fun to fiddle with. I quickly figured out that I wasn’t interested in a ‘plain’ education (called ‘Allmenn’ in Norway, which is a plain education type where you can move onto a lot of other fields later on), so I enrolled in a school that taught media and communication, where web design was a part of it. I’ve just found it to be a very interesting media, and love learning new techniques and things, so I also decided to take my bachelor’s degree in IT with a concentration on interactive design!

21) Do you ever dream of ditching the lot of us and running away to some place where we’ll never find you?

Haha! There have been times when I’ve gotten so frustrated with the site that I wanted to give it up and move on. Especially during the times when Smallville has sucked beyond reason or something sad has happened on NS like being hacked or something alike. But then I think about all of the awesome people who frequent on NS, and the friends I’ve made here.

Personally I don’t watch Smallville anymore; I stopped watching it around season 3! So the only reason NS is alive today is because of it’s awesome members who make it more of a community than a Smallville fan page.

And I know a lot of people like NS, and there are new members joining each day. It does cost a lot having NS up and running, but thanks to the help of some really nice people I can manage to keep it afloat (Thanks guys! )!

22) Have you ever gone to another website and thought “I could do a better job of running this place”?

Everyone has their own way of running a place, or a business. I’m sure people think the same way about NS when they visit, that they could do it better. I probably make a lot of mistakes or weird decisions that make you guys go ‘huh?!’ on me.

The important thing is listening to your users, as they are your customers and users. If it weren’t for them, you wouldn’t have a place to run.

So yes, I have gone to other websites and thought that, but then again, their target user group might be different from NS’s, and I don’t want to judge anyone for how they run their place .

23) Have you ever visited another website and wished you had thought of the design and/or programs?

All the time. I don’t have any particular examples at the moment, but I stumble upon other websites and wish I knew how to do this and that, and that I would have thought of it first But I also learn a lot from these websites, from the way they structure it to the graphics and content.

24) Do you see Chloe and Lex or other Smallville characters in different television shows or movies? Meaning, do you watch a movie like Star Wars and start thinking that Lex is just like Han Solo?

Hm, nothing has popped up that made me think ‘Ooooh that is SO Lex/Chloe’ but perhaps I’m just not that familiar with the characters that I can see a definitive resemblance.

25) What do you think AM and MR would say if they knew about NS?

I think they would probably laugh of the name [naughty-seduction.net], but hopefully think it’s kind of cool having a website who dig their characters on the show.

26) If you could have any super power, what would it be and why? Would you use it for good or evil?

Perhaps something like being able to hear other people’s thoughts. In the sense of course that I could control the data coming in.

People are such a mysterious being! Sometimes you have people figured out, other times you don’t. It would be cool to be able to really read a person, to see if their intentions are pure and if they mean what they say to you.

I guess this wish comes from a bit of a recent personal experience. One of the girls in the gang apparently hates my guts! And I had no idea; neither did another friend of mine who’s also a friend of the person who can’t stand me. If I could read that person’s mind, I could have figured out the reason to her disliking me, and we wouldn’t be having this awkward triangle thing going on :/

1) If you could visit any place at any time period, where would you go and what would you do?

The ‘60s. I adore the music and art that came from this decade. I love Edie Sedgwick’s style. Sharon Tate is one of my biggest fashion icons. She was so sexy and graceful, a natural beauty who could make a simple, gauzy cotton dress and bare feet look glamorous.