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Saturday Spotlight for 12/7/2013
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Today's featured deviant is:
IntelligentZombie!
Questions
1. Tell us a little about your writing process?
I usually brainstorm in my journal, which also gets filled with all of my life details as well. I pull anything from my journal that I could use in my writing, so sometimes I work my life into what I write. I do most of my writing on the computer, and I always have to have music on. I can't write at all in silence.
2. How do you feel about dA as a lit community?
I think dA has a really amazing lit community. The are so many talented writers here, and there's a great mix of new, emerging writers, seasoned writers, and everyone in between. I also love that so many of the members of the lit community here are really active, providing challenges and prompts, running contests, and helping fellow writers. I haven't found a better lit community.
3. Are there any authors that have influenced your work?
Oh boy, there are a ton. I love E.A. Poe for everything he wrote, and he's been a favorite of mine since I was a kid. I love fantasy, so I'm a big fan of authors who write high fantasy. J.R.R. Tolkien is a big influence of mine, as is a current author, R.A. Salvatore.
I'm also inspired a lot by authors like Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, because all of their books are so unique and inventive.
4. You write both poetry and prose! Do you find one comes easier to you than the other? What do you like most about each?
I think prose is easier for me in some ways, because I usually write the same way for each story. I've fallen into a point of view that I prefer, so I have an idea of where I'm going stylistically each time I sit down to write prose.
With poetry, however, I try to challenge myself every time I write, and I like to try new forms and styles. I love writing poetry because of that challenge, though. I love writing poetry because it's such a flexible way to express an idea.
My favorite thing about prose is that I can focus more on a story, and not on how it sounds.
5. Do you have any literature-related goals?
I do! Right now I’m editing an anthology of my stories, and hoping to kickstart it and self publish before the end of the year. It’s a sci-fi and horror anthology, and it’ll have themed poetry as well as short stories. I’m really excited about it.
I’ve been submitting poetry to different journals, and I’m also plotting two books. One book will be for NaNoWriMo this year, and the other is going to take more time. I hope to finish those, and then think about the next step.
Poetry
Some zombieI spread the cards out,
some intelligent zombie
playing at human.
"Some zombie" by IntelligentZombie
"Stay" by IntelligentZombie
Prose
"Ktenology" by IntelligentZombie
Snapshots of Visitors Beeping monitors had developed personalities, voices and footsteps out in the hallway were nearly recognizable as belonging to each individual shadow passing, the freshly bleached death smell was familiar enough not to matter and the occasional crying visitor just outside the door or in the lobby or over there somewhere was not someone to be pitied, but rather an irritating auditory intrusion. I'm not crying, so why are you?
The girl on the bed near the window had a small, sharp face, and a very sharp laugh. The sunlight was glaring off the cars in the parking lot and shining up into the room. It wasn't a terrible room, as rooms go, but it was small and white and blank. One of the visitors, that stout man with the road kill mustache, had confessed to preferring his cubicle at work to this dismal, albeit larger, slice of bright and shiny apathetic design.
The blankets were scratchy, but the girl wa
"Snapshots of Visitors" by IntelligentZombie
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