[evie_doherty]

Well, i figured it was about time to get one of these things, though i will be very surprised if anyone actually finds their way here to ask me a question.. but then again, i'm surprised to see new reviews pop up, or to find out that its my birthday.

Alright, so, i have uh, 4 stories up on HPFF with two more written on my trusty never-say-die apple laptop. I love them all, and can't wait to write me, even if the quality doesn't really reach anything higher than <i> merely passable</i>. I just like writing and putting pen to paper. Okay, stories are; with birds in her hair, a fancy or a feeling, the goose girl and persuasion.

with birds in her hair is my first story, and i love it so much, even though i do know it is cliche after cliche piled on a big fat mound of cliche. Mostly i just love Vienna (my oc) and i just want to give her a big hug and a chocolate chip cookie for everything i've made her go through.a fancy or a feeling is very different i think, with a fair few shakespeare refences and poetry nods. I love Lola to bits, one day i want to put all my OCs in a room together and just see what happens.

anyway, feel free to ask questions about anything, i'll be perfectly happy and agreeable to answer just about anything. As long as its not something i don't want to answer. I'll probably just be completely overjoyed to find out that people actually found this and want to ask me something.

Hit me.


evie. XXX

[Lucretia Neva]

Hey evie:) I wanted to congratulate your for being such a wonderful author, I absolutely love all your work and I'm happy that I've been able to do those images for you:) Now moving on to the questions for I have quite a few for you:

1. How did Vienna come to you in the first place?(she's absolutely lovely:D)

2. How do you manage to write multiple stories at the same time? Because I find it quit hard to stick to several plots at the same time. I had this idea with Rolf and Luna for quite a while and I didn't begin to write until I had finished I go back to Black...

3.What is your favourite story of the archives?

4. What is your favourite canon pairing?

5. Name a character that you'd never write about:)

6. Have you ever written a non-HPFF related novel?
Those are my question for the moment... I'm looking forward to your reply

[evie_doherty]

Hey evie:) I wanted to congratulate your for being such a wonderful author, I absolutely love all your work and I'm happy that I've been able to do those images for you:) Now moving on to the questions for I have quite a few for you:

1. How did Vienna come to you in the first place?(she's absolutely lovely:D)

2. How do you manage to write multiple stories at the same time? Because I find it quit hard to stick to several plots at the same time. I had this idea with Rolf and Luna for quite a while and I didn't begin to write until I had finished I go back to Black...

3.What is your favourite story of the archives?

4. What is your favourite canon pairing?

5. Name a character that you'd never write about:)

6. Have you ever written a non-HPFF related novel?
Those are my question for the moment... I'm looking forward to your reply

helloooo you! im so happy you came over here to write.. thanks so much, your such a lovely reviewer.

okay, 1. yes i love vienna too, she's a darling. well, i'd like to say she just walked into my head fully formed, but that would be a big fat lie. she's (obviously) influenced by people like luna, and also characters from other books like cassandra mortmain from i capture the castle and of course alice... she's also a bit me, a bit of my friends.. Mostly the type of person i'd love to be friends with in real life.

She has a heart of gold, which is the best thing about her really. I always thought that people like don't actually exist in real life, but one of my dearest friends is actually a saint. so i suppose nice people can exist out of books..



2. well, with great difficulty is the answer. i was about into chapter 15 of with birds in her hair when i started a fancy or a feeling, then i started the goose girl and then started persuasion. the thing is, im constantly thinking/reading/seeing what i think would be excellent ideas for a story, or excellent crossovers ( i LOVE crossovers).

its very difficult though, and as you can see (or will see) i use some jokes, or some situations over and over again.. mostly because i have very little talent to pull from in the first place, but also because i thought they were pretty cool and want to just use them again heeheee. i mostly just write on whichever story i have inspiration for, like if i want to write about lola or about vienna or about fleur etc etc. its pretty funny how it all pans out actually.



3. oh god, favourite story... thats so hard! thats really hard! i love tongue tied by queenspuppet, i also love (of course) match by mental. ... its very difficult, i'll pretty much read anything, though i dont want to write about anything.


4. fav canon pairing is without a doubt remus/tonks, followed closely by james/lily. im a big fan of the marauders, (obviously) but even more than that i don't like reading about pairings that JK writes about. like i dont like reading harry/ginny or ron/hermione even though i ship them heaps, because i think JK do them really well... i have read some really great ron/hermione though, so that's not set in stone.

sometimes i indulge in a little luna/harry *sigh* and the first fic i ever read EVER was a dramione. it was pretty cool, actually. a nice concept. though i cant remember where i read it and why.. twould be nice to find again i suppose.


5. i could never write about snape. i know a lot of people do, and they it much better than i ever could, so i just leave it to them. I just dont know what it is, i can't get inside his head, no matter how hard i try. it's terrible, because i wanted to do a lily/severus the other day, and i just couldn't.

i also tried a dumbledore story once, sort of set in the 1920s/1930s, but i had a lot of trouble with characterisation, and romance, and etc etc. it was very difficult. i love the 20s and 30s, so the historical part wasn't hard, it was more the whole writing dumbledore bit.

i suppose he's a character that JK does superbly, and often when you read him in fics (esepcially my own!) he's just there for the odd remark and handing out sweets. it's terrible, but i can't help it. he;s so hard! i wish i could write him.

its a lot easier to write about characters that are less known. like the founders, like oliver, like the marauders (to a certain extent). it's almost like they're OCs, so you can play around a bit. You said something similar about rolf scamander..


6. yes. it was terrible. it was incredibly long, written when i was about 14-15 and was basically a story about a girl, starting from birth and going to when she about 21. it didn't really have a plot and didn't go anywhere, but was set around my local football team, it's cheer song, and the effect that all that had on her life. it was terrible, really. especially the parts set at school where i talked about all my friends and it became an excuse to let out all my anger at some of them, or to tell some of them what i really felt about them. when i had finished all 300 pages of it i deleted it from my computer, which i kind of regret now.

apart from that, i have written some of another novel, but that one's a bit more interesting (i hope). however, with school, this, and life, i dont think it'll ever be finished (i've done 3 chaps) and also, no-one will want to read it except me..

*sigh*. such is life.

thanks so much for asking questions! i was so excited to see you'd replied, and then your questions were so interesting. i had fun answering, and they've given me some ideas to ask you heheee.

thanks. XXX

[Lucretia Neva]

Oh, I loved your answers:D I'm thinking about a crossover too but I'll manage to get down and write at the end of april or something like that... school and such:)
Dumbledore, yeah, I've had some issues with him too, but luckily he's not a major character in my fics and he's always captured in difficult and tensed situations so he's a little serious. The bit with Snape, I second that:)) There's no way that I could ever write him... it just seems impossible:)
I would like to read that novel:D I'm very much interested in what you write outside fanfictions. If you ever decide to show it to the world, send me a copy.
Thanks for answering:D

[evie_doherty]

thanks so much for the questions, i thought they were great.
i know, isn't dumbledore just the hardest? i wish i could, really, but i just can't. it's so terrible.
ahahaha that original novel. well yeah. about that....
its a work in progress. emphasis on the progress.

ive been writing 4 new stories at the moment, i'm not entirely sure if i'll post any of them. there's a humour (written in 1st person shock horror)! fic called the history kids which is Oliver/OC. i'm developing a little crush on him.

there's an odd rose/scorpius that i've done as a crossover with this little known book eucalyptus by murray bail. it's coming along nicely but it's very weird. i'm not sure if people would want to read it.

and then there's a challenge fic i'm doing. let them eat cake, which is sirius/OC which is historical inspiration.

and finally there is my very very very loosely related fic, ne me quitte pas, set in the 1930s in Paris with Cassiopeia Black, Sirius' great aunt or summat.

so that's what i've got at the moment. it's very exciting, i particularly like ne me quitte pas. apart from that... i'm not sure. maybe i should write something short, i always get drawn to the long fics.

anyway. thanks again. X

[promise_me_rain]

Hello!
I'm promise_me_rain (clearly) on HPFF and here. Anyways, I just was flipping through all four of your stories (I left a review on your first chapter of Persuasion which, by the way, is fabulous) and I had a question.
I notived that you have a very unique writing style, one that would not be considered out of place in an earlier time period. So, I was wondering what kind of books you read in your spare time. It seems to me that you are a classics lover, and I am assuming this just from your writing style, but I suppose I could always be wrong.
But keep up the good work! You really are a fantastic writer and I cannot wait for your two new stories

[evie_doherty]

Hello!
I'm promise_me_rain (clearly) on HPFF and here. Anyways, I just was flipping through all four of your stories (I left a review on your first chapter of Persuasion which, by the way, is fabulous) and I had a question.
I notived that you have a very unique writing style, one that would not be considered out of place in an earlier time period. So, I was wondering what kind of books you read in your spare time. It seems to me that you are a classics lover, and I am assuming this just from your writing style, but I suppose I could always be wrong.
But keep up the good work! You really are a fantastic writer and I cannot wait for your two new stories

hello there! and thanks so much,
you're spot on, i do enjoy a lot of the classics, indeed, most of them, i'm not really sure how it happened, i think it might be my mother's fault, but jane austen, evelyn waugh, elizabeth gaskell, henry james, thomas hardy, f scott fitzgerald, hemmingway, virginia woolf, E.M Forster ...

all favourites of mine. yes i am a little classics-heavy actually. i do like ian mcewan though, and michael oondatje, and also alexander mccal smith. but mostly i just read and re-read my well-thumbed copies of sense and sensibility or brideshead revisited.

thanks so much! when i have completed with birds in her hair, and put a few more chapters on persuasion i'll post a new story. i'm just comin to understand how hard it is to keep up with posting four incomplete stories at the same time...

[promise_me_rain]

hello there! and thanks so much,
you're spot on, i do enjoy a lot of the classics, indeed, most of them, i'm not really sure how it happened, i think it might be my mother's fault, but jane austen, evelyn waugh, elizabeth gaskell, henry james, thomas hardy, f scott fitzgerald, hemmingway, virginia woolf, E.M Forster ...

all favourites of mine. yes i am a little classics-heavy actually. i do like ian mcewan though, and michael oondatje, and also alexander mccal smith. but mostly i just read and re-read my well-thumbed copies of sense and sensibility or brideshead revisited.

thanks so much! when i have completed with birds in her hair, and put a few more chapters on persuasion i'll post a new story. i'm just comin to understand how hard it is to keep up with posting four incomplete stories at the same time...

Are you a Charles Dickens fan? Great Expectations = <3 haha but Pride and Prejudice is by far and away my favorite classics book. Although I love Gone With the Wind too....
And I know what you mean. I feel like I rarely read new books, sometimes I swear I just reread books I've loved.
I'll definitely go check out some of your new stories

Oh I know. I have two incomplete stories and I'm dying trying to keep them up. I've been so busy and then I leave tomorrow for Europe for six weeks and I won't be able to update (ahhhhh!!) haha
xx

[TheEmpress]

Hello! I abosolutely love your fics, so I decided to come and see your page. I found "with birds in her hair" several months ago and I fell in love with your characters. You do such a great job with fleshing them out into 'real' people. And... of course, I have a couple of questions.

1. How do you plan out your stories? I know some people have each chapter outlined to a 'T' and others just freewrite and then go back and edit. I'd love to know your method!

2. How do you choose names for your OCs? Such as Vienna, a lovely name, and others like Lola and Roddy?

3. Finally, what do you consider your greatest strengths and weaknesses as an author?

Have a most lovely day! <3

[evie_doherty]

Hi The Empress, i am so sorry for the incredibly late reply, but as my authors page might reveal, i am not paying half as much attention to my fanfics as i should, what with the end of school and uni starting. i am bogged down with work and catching up with work, and making excuses for why i haven't done the work, which is what i'm doing now...

To your first question, planning is both a strength and a weakness of mine. With the crossover fics i am lucky to the have the plot already outlined for me, so planning is much easier. With my crossover fics i decide what will happen in each chapter, usually sticking them to either a 10 or 20 chapter range, and then skim it out from there. With A fancy or a feeling and With Birds in her hair it was a bit different, because they were original, or at least mostly (haha). I started with a character for both of them: Vienna and Lola. Because they were such integral pieces of the whole, i fleshed them out until they were fully formed in my mind and built the story around them. You may have noticed that With Birds in her hair is primarily focussed on Vienna. With A fancy or a Feeling there are other principle players who get their share of the limelight, like Holly, Remus, Sirius and James. These came after Lola, and after deciding how she would interract with characters like 'the best friend', 'the boyfriend', 'the boyfriend's gang' etc.

Also the thing about A fancy or a feeling, but also With Birds In Her Hair, is that each chapter revolves around a shakespeare quote and a poetry excerpt. These aren't just random tidbits, they always have somethign to do with teh plot and/or development of the chapter. So in a way i gathered a lot of shakespeare quotes together, and distributed them in terms of how i saw the action proceeding (meeting, falling in love, fighting, duels, despair etc etc). That was a lot of fun actually, and i can't wait till the time when life allows me to take up writing for that fic again.

2. Ah the names... they are crazy, no? but people seem to like them, most of the time. hehe. I am crazy about names, the wilder the better, and my love was in part fuelled by the harry potter series themselves (hermione? draco? sirius? minerva? albus?). Some of the names are those of my friends, so i can't reasonably take credit for thinking them up, like Lola shares a name, and many other things besides (the red hair, the fiery temperament, the dramatics, the passion) of one of my dearest friends in life. Roddy is based on Arianrhod, which is a welsh name, and one that i have loved ever since i heard my mum singing a welsh folksong once that it was in. Vienna is a name all of my own invention/discovery, since i love 'sienna' but it is becoming woefully overused at the moment. Vienna had the same kind of lyrical sound but with a different, somewhat harsher consonant beginning that i just adored.

3. Hmmm... this is hard. For strengths i would say that i write in a very conversational, though not colloquial way. I think my style is sort of like having a conversation with me. My narrator is usually omniscient and removed from the action, but speaks as if she is telling the story of vienna, or Lola, or Rose, or Roddy to the reader. For weaknesses i think it is that i often veer far too close to cliche for comfort, and that i have difficulty with writing an OC other than my fallback: the quirky odd girl who bizarrely ends up with the hunk of the school. no-one saw it coming! and i wonder why i write those fics... hmm... i smell a complex coming on.

hope these answers are satisfactory! thankyou so much for stopping by, i enjoyed the questions immensely. i'm also glad you like the fics. They have been a lot of fun to write, and i want to finish them all. I also sometimes get little plot bunnies running around in my head but i know i sould finish what i started before i get into anything new. *sigh*.

[lacewings]

Hi, it's Lacewings. I believe I left some absolutely barmy comments on your wonderful story Rose a few months ago. I just wanted to apologize for being overly harsh in my comments, it was uncalled for an largely untrue. Your story is amazing, and I demand you update soon.

As for a question for you.... uhh, which Marauder would you pick?

I'm writing a story right now about a girl named Cassiopeia, by the way. I just was scrolling through your stories and realized you have written one too. Isn't it a lovely name? What are your favorite names?

-Nora

[henryjones]

Hi evie! Ive been reading your stories for a long time (you may recognize me from the incoherent and uncapitalized reviews) and I thought Id say once again just how wonderful they are. I even loved the one that was james/oc which is a ship i normally avoid, james/lily just seems so sacred. I think my favorite part of your writing is the way you narrate it, that the narrator has its own voice and while knowing everything, still seems to have personality. Its very charming, which makes it sound quaint, but in a very good way. Have you always written this way or is this style modeled after something youve read? Personally, it reminds me of Northanger Abbey.
My other question comes from my own (failed) attempts to write. I always get too attached to my characters, then I cant let anything bad ever happen to them, or let them embarass themselves, or anything, so the story gets terrible to the point of unreadable. Do you ever run into this, and if you do, how do you deal?
Thanks for the wonderful stories, and if you take a while to respond to this, dont feel bad at all. As much as it hurts me, I do have to recognize that the universe doesnt revolve around me, and authors whose work I enjoy reading actually have lives and other things to fill their time...
Ill leave you with the ninja smiley because its amazing.

[xLauriePotter]

First of all, Love your first story! I'm thinking now of re-reading and reviewing the chapters for you, I just get too excited when I get attatched to a story to review hehe but anyway.. :')


Do you only like writing OC's or Next Gen, I noticed this to be a pattern you've got going on?


And is this because you find it easier to build your own character than trying to portray someone elses?


Your favourite ship to write?