tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3157378045977082225.post2900335062373854397..comments2023-06-05T04:00:52.930-07:00Comments on CP Slayer: I Heart YA #2 Who's Your Freak?Cara M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10979781599548365989noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3157378045977082225.post-42281898737873201432012-01-30T17:41:41.747-08:002012-01-30T17:41:41.747-08:00Oh I love Terry Pratchett! And yea, I love that ab...Oh I love Terry Pratchett! And yea, I love that about the Boogeyman. I'm hoping to make that word synonymous with my name within a couple years. I loved Monsters Inc too! I was definitely inspired by a lot of 'monster under your bed or in your closet' movies/books. I look forward to seeing you do the Sidhe differently. I did love the way C.J. Cherryh handled them in The Dreaming Tree. (and I absolutely LOVED her version of Death.)<br /><br />One more thing. I awarded you the Kreativ Blogger award <a href="http://dverted.blogspot.com/2012/01/contests-and-kreativ-blogger-award.html" rel="nofollow">here!</a> Hope you have fun with it!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07716190503345068698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3157378045977082225.post-55568792251083667402012-01-26T17:14:10.698-08:002012-01-26T17:14:10.698-08:00Yeah, a lot of people do the Sidhe, or do Fey or F...Yeah, a lot of people do the Sidhe, or do Fey or Fairies, or whatever they call it. The boogeyman is so cool, because he isn't overdone. (My main association is in Terry Pratchett, though your description reminded me just slightly of Monsters Inc. :D Awesome movie.) I really want to do Sidhe differently though, not have the whole 'oh, they're really soft and cuddly (or glittery and vegetarian) and I want to be one!' Incest and Cannibalism all the way! (er, you know, in a glittery vegetarian sense).Cara M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10979781599548365989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3157378045977082225.post-26866301846602272112012-01-26T17:09:13.878-08:002012-01-26T17:09:13.878-08:00I love meeting new people myself!
Yep, the Sidhe ...I love meeting new people myself!<br /><br />Yep, the Sidhe are part of my WIP (very in progress, meaning, sort of at the beginning stages). I think it's actually my first truly YA story. I write a lot of things that are on the cusp, between YA and MG, but this one I want to be as intense as it can get. Sexy and morally ambiguous, that's the way I want to go.<br /><br />It was great to do this post, because it let me concretize my ideas about the Sidhe in the story. The hardest part, of course, is that I want them to be utterly repulsive, irresistibly sexy (although my MC is going to do her best to resist), and ultimately sympathetic. But only ultimately sympathetic. For the first half at least I need to make them creepier and creepier, then they need to start making sense, and finally, you need to be rooting hard for one of them, at least. That's going to be a trick to pull off. I'd better get to writing it.<br /><br />*grin* I hope that wasn't more than you wanted to know.Cara M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10979781599548365989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3157378045977082225.post-34645405089895009322012-01-26T09:52:30.476-08:002012-01-26T09:52:30.476-08:00Gotta love mythic creatures from Asia and old Celt...Gotta love mythic creatures from Asia and old Celtic tales. Each author I've read seems to treat the Sidhe differently, but it's always fascinating. I love your concept of the Sidhe.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07716190503345068698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3157378045977082225.post-10958497774222691622012-01-26T07:36:48.548-08:002012-01-26T07:36:48.548-08:00Wow! This was the exact thing I was hoping for wit...Wow! This was the exact thing I was hoping for with this carnival - to meet new people AND to learn new things. Fascinating freaks! So are Sidhe part of a work in progress? I'd love to know more.Suze Reesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04103720836207848942noreply@blogger.com