#Wakefield outtakes

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Outtake from cover art shoot directed by Peter Saville and designed by Howard Wakefield. The cover model is German actress Nicolette Krebitz. On the front cover, she is holding Sony DCR-PC1 MiniDV camcorder. Juergen Teller took the photo and clothing was Helmut Lang.

New Order “GET READY” 2001

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4, 9, 25, 31

4. Are there any writers that inspire you?

Just about anything I read will inspire me in one way or another. In the course of writing When the Longing Returns I've directly taken inspiration from Angela Carter, Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell. The last was especially influential on Chapter 4.

9. Which Characters do you find difficult to write

So far I've only really written 5 characters (Erik, Christine, Raoul, Meg and Madame Giry) and none of them have been particularly challenging, because I've always known exactly what I want them to do in the scenes they're in. Like they all have their little challenges situationally.

With Erik my main concern is finding the right balance of self-confidence and self-loathing. I determined early on that i didn't believe ALW Erik to be defeatist--somehow he always manages to cling on to hope. So my gauge is "Does he sound too much like Edward Cullen in Midnight Sun? If yes, dial it back.

But I think I would say the one that will be most challenging in the future will be Madame Giry. And there it isn't so much not knowing how to write her, and more just finding difficulty in actually articulating it. There's some big scenes with her coming up one of which I wrote all the way back in Ch. 3 and its one of my favourite things I've written, but it was also quite challenging.

25. Have you ever daydreamed about side adventures/spin-offs from your fic? Tell us about them!

No so much side adventures, more like outtakes--scenes that take place in the universe of the fic birthday just don't fit the trajectory of the story. And they're mostly smutty.

31. Do you have any OCs? Tell us about them!

Now are we talking OC's for a piece of media or Original characters for Original works?

If the latter, not really no. If the former, my OC for Twilight, Ada, is very near and dear to my heart, to the point where I have a whole side-blog for her (@crookdeclipses).

I have always had a self insert for Twilight, but when I first came up with her she was called Audrey and she was very thinly written. I just didn't have a good enough scope of knowledge or emotional experience to come up with a character that add anything to the Cullen family dynamic. She read kind of just there. So when I embraced the Twilight Renaissance, I decided to completely strip her down and rebuild her from scratch. Just about the only thing she retained from the I original incarnation is her hair colour and her car. Audrey Cullen became Adeliza Charlotte Wakefield Cullen (Ada for short). I placed her backstory in Regency England (as I was coming off of a major Jane Austen kick) with the basis of her vampire origin being what if Marianne Dashwood's story ended.... badly? Like, at the foot of a cliff badly?

That background grew to involve her fiancé disappearing in action during the Napoleanic Wars who she then discovers (after she becomes a vampire) was actually alive, and an obsessive vampire creator who's affection she was not ready to receive chasing her across Eurasia (this aspect of her story was added to explain the numerous vampire covens of OC's I came up with back when Breaking Dawn came out and International Vampires became an option). The obsessive vampire creator (he's called Jonathan) was an idea I had because I wanted to explore Stephenie Meyers concept of "vampires can only fall in love once". Namely what happens when you fall in love as a vampire and the object of your affection doesn't reciprocate. Things don't end well for poor Jonathan (my heart goes out to the poor guy. I really feel like I did him dirty.)

Her full backstory and various other details can be read here

Thank you for asking <3

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Fall Bingo~ Wanderlust Outtake

Prompt: Autumn Leaves

Agent Niklaus Mikaelson had spent his fair amount of time in maximum security prisons interviewing the worst criminals the world had ever seen. Staring at pedophiles, murders and sex traffickers had become routine to him in the years he was profiler. It had been some time since he left the FBI and the States, but that part of his life would always stick with him. The memory of Matthew Donovan and his final days in Mystic Falls was sealed into his bones like a plague that would never be cured.

Staring up at Her Majesty’s Prison, even though it was still half a mile down the road, made Klaus nervous. While he spent so much time with the type of criminals that were held behind those walls, none of them were like this one. The autumn leaves lingered on the ground just outside the stone walls that surrounded the prison. The cool breeze of fall flowed around him. He leaned against his car, black take-away coffee in his hand, trying to gather the strength he needed to drive the remaining distance to the prison.

Klaus pulled the coat around him tighter and debated climbing back into the car, to head back to London. It was a three-hour drive from London to Wakefield and Klaus spent the entire drive going back and forth if he wanted to do this. For a long time, he had run as fast and as far as he could from this prison but the changes in his life made Klaus realize that he needed to find closure in his life if he was going to embrace this new role that was approaching soon.  

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