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the faithful five
Jan. 29th, 2013 01:54 pmComment with "Today is for cake" and I'll give you five questions. No better way to procrastinate than our beloved, five questions meme.
1. What authors (or author)has had the most influence on your writing? This can be commercially published authors or fic; it's up to you.
Josef Skvorecky and Ivan Klima have given me a love of carefully wrought sentences around very big thoughts. Racheline Maltese made me love big, grand sentences interspersed with fragments and complex constructions. Dostoevsky showed me that sentences were layers. My high school journalism teacher taught me to worship at the altars of brevity and succinctness. So a lot of them, from Eastern Europe and journalism and the pure beautiful world of stories.
2. Dogs or cats?
Cats I think. More contained. Though sometimes I miss having a big, serious dog around. I can't abide little dogs. Cats are cuter, in general.
3. Favorite Starbuck's drink?
Probably a winter time peppermint mocha, because it feels like dessert. Usually I'm a rather plain latte/cappucino drinker.
4. Do you wear perfume? If no, why not? If so, favorite scent?
I own a ridiculous amount of perfume. Most of it comes from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, though I have a collection of men's cologne in tiny bottles. I think my all time favorite thing is Tombstone - it's sassafras and cedar and a tiny bit of vanilla.
5. Where do fall in your family? Oldest? Youngest? Only?
I am the oldest of two. Quite often I have wished to be an only child. Partly because I think I might have been more temperamentally suited for it and partly because my sister and I were never remotely close.
1. What authors (or author)has had the most influence on your writing? This can be commercially published authors or fic; it's up to you.
Josef Skvorecky and Ivan Klima have given me a love of carefully wrought sentences around very big thoughts. Racheline Maltese made me love big, grand sentences interspersed with fragments and complex constructions. Dostoevsky showed me that sentences were layers. My high school journalism teacher taught me to worship at the altars of brevity and succinctness. So a lot of them, from Eastern Europe and journalism and the pure beautiful world of stories.
2. Dogs or cats?
Cats I think. More contained. Though sometimes I miss having a big, serious dog around. I can't abide little dogs. Cats are cuter, in general.
3. Favorite Starbuck's drink?
Probably a winter time peppermint mocha, because it feels like dessert. Usually I'm a rather plain latte/cappucino drinker.
4. Do you wear perfume? If no, why not? If so, favorite scent?
I own a ridiculous amount of perfume. Most of it comes from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, though I have a collection of men's cologne in tiny bottles. I think my all time favorite thing is Tombstone - it's sassafras and cedar and a tiny bit of vanilla.
5. Where do fall in your family? Oldest? Youngest? Only?
I am the oldest of two. Quite often I have wished to be an only child. Partly because I think I might have been more temperamentally suited for it and partly because my sister and I were never remotely close.