csr January CSR Discussion Day: Fun with FanFiction by Laura S. Fox
Entry posted by Cia in CSR- Can't Stop Reading
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How's your 2019 shaping up? I can't believe the first month has already passed, and here we are at the first CSR Discussion day! Who checked out this month's fanfiction story by @Laura S. Fox that was featured? I heard the word... "hot". What do you think? Make sure you share your thoughts in the comments below along with any questions you might have, but first, mine always come first! Here's the interview I sent Laura with all the in-depth, probing questions I'm known for! 
Have you ever gone out in public, realized your shirt is on backwards, and just don’t care?
I wish I had that level of ‘I don’t give a damn’. Unfortunately, I’m quite self-conscious once I realize that something is wrong with my clothes. It’s best that I don’t realize if that happens.
What’s something personal about you people might be surprised to know?
Maybe that I’m – almost – 5.2? I hope my writing gives people the impression that I’m taller, lol. Also, that I actually had IT as my specialization in high school. Don’t ask, my family thought I could be a mathematician. I got decent grades in math, and it felt like victory whenever I solved some tough equation. But I loathed all those times when I couldn’t.
Did you like to write in school?
I didn’t write anything close to something that could be called a story until 25-26, except for compositions that were school assignments. Although I’ve always loved stories and books, and I got good grades in literature classes, it just didn’t cross my mind I could write. I was imagining stuff in my head, sometimes very long and winded, but I wasn’t putting anything on paper. Long story short, my husband made me do it.
Do you have any favorite quotes from a famous author?
When I was younger, I loved those quotes that expressed some kind of cosmic truth. But then I grew up a little and realized cosmic truths don’t really matter that much. So I happen to find quotes that are more specific or focus on details that refer only to an individual or a specific situation or an era to be much more interesting. Samples at hand:
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice)
“What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenthearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.” (Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses)
What’s the best part of being an author?
For me, it’s the freedom of imagining anything you want. You can create something that didn’t exist before, and that feels liberating. To some people, writers – and other creators – may look a bit like lunatics in that sense of ‘what are you doing all cooped up inside all day long? You’re not living your life’ kind of thing. But I believe it to be a sort of escapism that’s hardly equaled by anything else.
What do you think makes up a good book?
It must be the capability to make you suspend all your beliefs and delve in without one look back. If an author manages to help you escape reality while you’re reading their work, the topic doesn’t even matter that much. What’s the key to that specific ability, I’m still trying to find out. 
How did you get interested in manhua?
If I were to talk about 19 Days in particular, it happened because it kept popping on my Tumblr feed. But, in general, manhua, manga, and manhwa – which are just Chinese, Japanese and Korean terms for comics – came into my life via Boys’ Love stories, and yaoi. First, I watched some yaoi anime, simply by accident, then I progressed to reading comics, and I also got into slash at the same time, and it all sort of rolled down from there, just because of the love for the love of boys. I just found the stories coming from Asian creators to be funny, interesting, even intense and dramatic, compared to anything else I had ever read before.
Fanfiction isn’t posted often on GA. What’s the biggest difference to writing fanfiction versus original fiction for you?
I think it must be the fact that it is somewhat easier to write fanfiction. You have all the characters, their motivations, even settings, already made. You’re practically playing in someone else’s sandbox. When you write original fiction, however, you need to be careful not to slip, and make your own characters sound OOC. Keeping things consistent is a real challenge for original fiction.
Do you have a favorite scene in Nude Pics Please?
That must be in ch. 5, titled It Hurts, when Momo almost smiles. It’s right after the boys make love for the first time, and they say their goodbyes until their next time together. Since this is a fanfic piece, I wanted at least parts of it to touch what I believe to be the most significant aspects of the original work. To give a little background, Momo never smiles in the manhua – he really doesn’t – and it can feel hard at times to believe the boys would ever make headway. Then, from time to time, the creator gives us a small glimpse into the future, by drawing cute art, where the boys are aged up and clearly together. Also, often, on top of the panels it is usually written the word ‘someday’, which means that’s a promise that everything will work out. And that practically sparked the scene I’m talking about in Nude Pics Please!
If you had to sum up the story in one sentence, what would it be?
It all started with a naughty pic.
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