Stephen Zacharus:
No. And actually, the story wasn't that popular, as far as I remember. Probably because my updates were so scattered and infrequent. I encountered a similar problem with "Betrayal is a Beautiful Game." Although that one was to a much greater degree; I'd go for months without updating.
Sean Catlett:
You weren't happy with the story?
Stephen Zacharus:
"Bloodbound" ?
Sean Catlett:
Betrayal.
Stephen Zacharus:
Oh. I thought "Betrayal" turned out okay. It wasn't perfect, but all in all, it was the type of Sonic story I always wanted to write: a Sat-AM/Archie-style adventure that had that old-school flavor. Dark as it might have been. "Bloodbound," though, was full of wannabe homoeroticism. I wish I would have had the courage to simply write a gay story.
Sean Catlett:
No shit? I didn't see any...
Stephen Zacharus:
Is that sarcastic?
Sean Catlett:
No! Seriously.
Stephen Zacharus:
Oh, okay. I wasn't sure how to respond. Yeah, it was an undercurrent. Probably stuff that only I would notice. But viewed in that context, you might notice, too, upon reading it again. The Tails/Eddie relationship.
Sean Catlett:
Dammit, first you ruin Episode 2, now you ruin Bloodbound.
Stephen Zacharus:
Hehehe. Did you like Bloodbound?
Sean Catlett:
Well, I did...
Stephen Zacharus:
I also wrote that in the height of my choppy, "one-sentence-per-paragraph" phase, which I have thankfully veered away from.
Sean Catlett:
Yeah, I'm sorry if I caused that.
Stephen Zacharus:
Hehe. I think you did.
Sean Catlett:
FUCK!
Stephen Zacharus:
You know, it's really quite fascinating. I've found that my writing will often imitate the nature of the material I happen to be reading frequently at the time. For example, when I was obsessive about reading and writing fanfiction, my writing had a distinct "fanfiction" quality to it. I also went through a phase in high school where I was into (shudder) videogame magazines, which are typically written in a loose, sarcastic style that I painfully emulated in my essay writing for school. Now that I'm reading, ahem, REAL literature on a regular basis, now, my writing has greatly improved.
Sean Catlett:
You wanna name some favorites, just to get this part out of the way? So I don't have to ask it at the end.
Stephen Zacharus:
Favorite stories by other fan authors, you mean? Or favorite books in general?
Sean Catlett:
REAL literature.
Stephen Zacharus:
Currently, my favorite books are "The Hours" by Michael Cunningham, "When the Women Come Out to Dance" by Elmore Leonard, and "One More for the Road" by Ray Bradbury. I also read Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" for one of my literature classes last year, and I loved it, although I'm not brave enough to call it a "favorite" yet. Mostly because it's a "favorite" of so many people. It's intimidating. So fuck it, it's not my favorite.
Sean Catlett:
Way to fight conformity.
Okay! Now, let's talk about everybody's favorite fuck-fuck fic... THROB!!!
Continue to Part Nine
