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Introduction (01)
Enoon's Head (02-184)
Enoon's Stories
Acknowledgments
Articles
Biography
INSIDE THE HEAD OF ENOON
Introduction
[01] Enoon is a good writer with a great sense of humor. His tales will leave you wanting more.
Callisto wanted more, and look where it got her.
Enoon’s Head
Interviewer:
[02] Why did you start writing?Enoon:
[03] I started telling myself stories when I was younger to get myself to go to sleep. As I got older, my stories would become more elaborate and longer, until I started to write them down on paper so I wouldn't forget a detail or where I left off. I had no idea that I could try to do it for profit.Interviewer:
[04] If you had to do it all over, would you be a bard? Would you write?Enoon:
[05] Yes. Hands down.Interviewer:
[06] Give us a brief day in the life of Enoon.Enoon:
[07] I wake up at 5:45 AM to go to the gym to work out (I am not healthy now, but I am getting there). I leave from there and head to my job as a programming technician for a small communications company. I work there until about 5:45 or 6:00 PM. I come home, open up my e-mail, sift through the spam, eat dinner and talk with my wife. When dinner's over, I start writing and listen to the TV until about 11:00, then I go to bed. Whoo - hooo.Interviewer:
[08] What does gossip mean to you?Enoon:
[09] Just means that people would much rather believe the worst than hope for the best.Interviewer:
[10] Are people easily swayed by 'hearsay'?Enoon:
[11] Unfortunately, yes. I have been the victim and sometimes the perpetrator of 'hearsay'. I try not to do it, but I am human.Interviewer:
[12] What are your feelings about people who use others for personal gain?Enoon:
[13] Not very favorable. I am all for helping someone if asked, or sometimes I'll help someone out of the kindness of my beady little heart. Using someone for personal gain, then tossing them aside is not a good practice. People have been known to hold grudges... sometimes for years...Interviewer:
[14] How do you handle stress?Enoon:
[15] I write!Interviewer:
[16] Years from now, how would you want to be remembered?Enoon:
[17] As a proficient writer, a good husband, and a wonderful father.Interviewer:
[18] What is your pet peeve?Enoon:
[19] Self-righteousness bordering on arrogance.Interviewer:
[20] Who is Enoon?Enoon:
[21] Enoon is a guy who just woke up one morning with a mindful of ideas and say "You mean I can do this as a job, too?"Interviewer:
[22] Do fans expect too much from stars?Enoon:
[23] I think we take our favorite stars and place them on a pedestal far too often. We tend to forget that the actresses, actors, writers, or whoever we admire are people just like us.Interviewer:
[24] What are your feelings on censorship?Enoon:
[25] Funny, I had a friendly argument about this topic with my supervisor at work. Censorship is wrong -- there is no other way to cut it. If there is something that you find offensive on the Internet, the TV, on a bookshelf or on the movie screen -- then don't have anything to do with it. Don't buy, don't watch it, don't read it, don't buy a ticket or the CD. Can you protest? Sure. You can rant and rave all you want against the evils of Product X. Just don't try to wrestle it out of my hands.Interviewer:
[26] If you can cure one disease, what would it be and why?Enoon:
[27] Bipolar disorder. My mother-in-law was diagnosed with it. She's a wonderful woman, but she has to take a dozen pills a day.Interviewer:
[28] Do you believe in capital punishment?Enoon:
[29] I do.Interviewer:
[30] Why?Enoon:
[31] I believe in it for two reasons: One -- we need to show that the most serious crimes will receive the most serious punishments. Two -- no criminal who gets the death penalty commits another crime. Ever.Interviewer:
[32] What is the most sensitive part on your body?Enoon:
[33] As far as the reception of sensory data? The bottom of the arch on my right foot. The area of the body that I am most concerned with? My stomach and the fact it looks like I swallowed a medicine ball.Interviewer:
[34] What do you see yourself doing in the future? Any future projects?Enoon:
[35] I am working on a fantasy trilogy and a separate fantasy stand-alone novel, both of them for future publication. As for fan fiction, I would like to make my way through Pardoner's Path and maybe see if I can take some of the secondary characters from it and stretch out their adventures.Interviewer:
[36] How do you handle depression?Enoon:
[37] I usually curl up into a small ball and sleep. I used to drink, but my wife put an end to that really fast. Thankfully, it only comes on certain days.Interviewer:
[38] What was the hardest thing you ever did?Enoon:
[39] Submitted Well Worn Path to the Athenaeum. I deliberated for days over whether or not I should do it. This shows how patient my wife is!Interviewer:
[40] What was the easiest?Enoon:
[41] Sitting down one Friday and writing it.Interviewer:
[42] What advice can you give to future writers?Enoon:
[43] If this is your passion, if this is why you wake up in the morning, then pursue it with every ounce of will and determination. Never let anyone tell you "You can't do this."Interviewer:
[44] What has the show Xena meant to you?Enoon:
[45] It has been a revolutionary show on so many levels, and it has brought me to friends that I never would have met.Interviewer:
[46] How do you feel about its end?Enoon:
[47] Shocked and confused.Interviewer:
[48] What are your dreams? Hopes? Wishes?Enoon:
[49] To be a published and professional writer.Interviewer:
[50] Who do you trust?Enoon:
[51] Only my wife.Interviewer:
[52] What would you say every writer needs?Enoon:
[53] Imagination. if you don't have that, the biggest vocabulary doesn't mean JackInterviewer:
[54] Do you believe in prayer?Enoon:
[55] I do believe in prayer, regardless of faith or procedure -- from the Hail Mary to the Kaddish. I have seen and felt its effects first-hand.Interviewer:
[56] How do you feel about subtext?Enoon:
[57] Subtext is in the eye of the beholder. Truth be told, I didn't see the subtext until I discovered fan fiction, then I started seeing the show in an entirely different light.Interviewer:
[58] What makes your best friend your best friend?Enoon:
[59] Looking over at me when I am depressed, sliding me a beer (when I drank) and telling me to snap the hell out if it.Interviewer:
[60] Have you ever experienced, you or someone else reading one of your stories aloud in the public? How did you feel?Enoon:
[61] Mortified. My social studies teacher saw me writing a short story rather than taking notes (I can't help it if his class was boring me to tears). He picked it up and read the entire page. I wanted to ooze out of my chair and sink below the foundation.Interviewer:
[62] What's the most romantic thing anyone has done for you?Enoon:
[63] When Nancy (my wife) and I were still dating and she was away at grad school, she called me up out of the blue and said, "I wanted to tell you how much I loved you." Things like that still give me the warm fuzzies. Yeah, I'm a three hundred pound teddy bear.Interviewer:
[64] What theme would you like to tackle in your next work?Enoon:
[65] As far as fan fiction? The futility of vengeance. In my other works? The importance of knowing your culture.Interviewer:
[66] What was the last thing that made you smile recently?Enoon:
[67] Bloom County. That comic strip still makes me laugh.
Opus, a penguin, was a denizen of Bloom County
Interviewer:
[68] You now have absolute authority over the world. Omnipotent in all areas.Enoon:
[69] Thank you.Interviewer:
[70] What's your first move?Enoon:
[71] Turning the Sahara into a fertile plain and telling the countries that exist on it to either freely share their new found luck or suddenly find themselves on the top of Mons Olympus, Mars.Interviewer:
[72] How would you categorize your best writing, and give the URL's for them if posted?Enoon:
[73] Best writing that I have ever done? Top five?
1) Bridge Of Cinders
http://geocities.com/enoonerehwon2000/Stories/boc.htm2) Well Worn Path
http://geocities.com/enoonerehwon2000/Stories/wwp.htm3) Dancing Mad series (unfinished)
http://geocities.com/enoonerehwon2000/Stories/dm1.htm4) Darker Hearts Chapter 7
http://geocities.com/enoonerehwon2000/Stories/dh7.htm5) Fey Nights
http://casaloco.com/crysanium/bards/enoon/fey_night.shtmlInterviewer:
[74] What stupid thing did you do as a teen?Enoon:
[75] Ahhh, the list is long and distinguished. I would have to say grabbing a beer from a friend of mine's refrigerator and drinking it down.Interviewer:
[76] What, if anything, can stop you writing, if only for a while?Enoon:
[77] Intense depression.Interviewer:
[78] In your opinion, do you fit your astrological sign?Enoon:
[79] I am a Scorpio and it shows.Interviewer:
[80] What to you is the worst feeling in the world?Enoon:
[81] Being rejected when submitting something.Interviewer:
[82] The best feeling in the world?Enoon:
[83] Typing in the last word of a story.Interviewer:
[84] Favorite song of the moment?Enoon:
[85] She's Just Killing Me -- ZZ TopInterviewer:
[86] What is the first thing you think of in the morning?Enoon:
[87] "I just had a great idea for a story!"Interviewer:
[88] Is there one part of the writing process where you usually get stuck? What have you tried to change that, successful or not?Enoon:
[88] I get stuck in the re-writing process.Interviewer:
[89] Does the best writing flow for you, or does it come from rewrites?Enoon:
[90] The best writing comes during the first rough draft. My mind just opens up and my fingers play catch-up.Interviewer:
[91] Which part of writing do you enjoy most and why?Enoon:
[92] First building the story line and exploring all the options.Interviewer:
[93] How often do you think about a piece when you're working on it and when do you think about it?Enoon:
[94] All the time.Interviewer:
[95] When someone walks into your bedroom, what are the first five things that they're likely to notice?Enoon:
[96] (1) The bookshelves on the wall opposite of the door. (2) The stack of books by my side of the bed. (3) The "Dr. Evil" poster on my side of the room and the Elvis poster on Nancy's side -- that pretty much sums up our relationship . (4) The kukri (head hunting knife) sitting on one of my bookshelves. (5) The soft army of stuffed animals and dolls my wife has acquired over the years. And if it's laundry day, (6) The underwear trying to make a break for freedom.Interviewer:
[97] Do you feel in control of your writing, or do you get carried away by your inspiration or characters?Enoon:
[98] I don't think "getting carried away" is the right phrase. "Hijacked and taken hostage" is more like it. I started one story -- which be came "Bridge Of Cinders" -- and I couldn't get any further than the first three pages, because the characters just didn't want to do anything. So I scrapped it and listened to what The Conqueror had to say. The rest is history.Interviewer:
[99] If you consider yourself to have a muse, what exactly do you mean?Enoon:
[100] I have a second little voice that tells me what would sound good on the paper, or what would be a neat plot twist. That's my muse.Interviewer:
[101] Tell the truth--are you your favorite writer, or in your own top five? Why or why not?Enoon:
[102] I am not my favorite writer. I am number 6 on my top five. I read what I wrote and I can see flaws and stuff that needs to be re-worked. I am never satisfied with what I do.Interviewer:
[103] Would the world be a better place if women ran it or would it be basically the same?Enoon:
[104] It would be the same. We can't say one gender is better than another because we are all still human beings with all the inherent flaws.Interviewer:
[105] What is your favorite spot where you live now?Enoon:
[106] The corner of my living room where my computer is.Interviewer:
[107] What books are you reading now?Enoon:
[108] For writing, I am reading Description by Monica Wood. I can always stand to improve my writing. For fun, I am reading Otherworld by Tad Williams. So far, the story is taking place in three different eras: World War I France along the Maginot Line, Futuristic South Africa, and some fantasy realm not on this world. I am anxious to see how the author ties all of these together.Interviewer:
[109] What would your friends say is your worst trait?Enoon:
[110] Obsessive Traits -- I grab onto one problem and not let up until its solved.Interviewer:
[111] Do you type with your fingers on the 'right' keys?Enoon:
[112] Not on your life. One of these days, my spell checker is going to short out if it picks off the word 'teh'.Interviewer:
[113] What is the longest any plant in your home has been with you?Enoon:
[114] I have no plants -- my thumb is black, not green. My wife has a plant that has defied the odds and has been alive for one year.Interviewer:
[115] Do you have any particular bedtime rituals that you follow every night?Enoon:
[116] I drink a glass of juice before I go to bed.Interviewer:
[117] If you find a spider in the bathtub, do you help it out or squish it?Enoon:
[118] Help it out. Spiders are good luck, but I can't get my wife to see that.Interviewer:
[119] What was the last thing you bought that you really didn't need?Enoon:
[120] The DVD The Killer -- I'm a huge fan of Chow Yun-Fat.Interviewer:
[121] Have you ever smoked cigarettes?Enoon:
[122] Nope, I am an asthmatic. Cigarettes drive me nuts.Interviewer:
[123] Who is your favorite Greek God?Enoon:
[124] Dionysus. The Greek God of Wine, Fertility and Madness -- the Jim Morrison of the Pantheon.Interviewer:
[125] Why do fools fall in love?Enoon:
[126] Because a fool is an eternal optimist.Interviewer:
[127] Do you keep a diary?Enoon:
[128] No diary. Nothing in writing that can be used against me in court. I've seen Matlock.Interviewer:
[129] How has online writing affected your life and how you see yourself, your goals?Enoon:
[130] It has given me the chance to have near-instantaneous feedback and correction. More people are reading my writing and in turn, are giving me advice to improve it.Interviewer:
[131] What skill would you like to have that you don't have now?Enoon:
[132] I would love to be able to learn how to program in HTML, so I can make my own websites.Interviewer:
[133] Who is your real life hero and why?Enoon:
[134] Ed Wood of Plan 9 From Outer Space Fame -- this man made the worst movie ever (and granted all of my knowledge of him comes for the movie Ed Wood but he went at it with a confidence and a drive that bordered on insanity. The man was knocked down, but he got back up, dusted himself off and said "I have this movie idea that will drive the kids wild!"Interviewer:
[135] What fan fiction story touched you so much that you still remember it vividly?Enoon:
[136] Fear Of Eights
http://www.xenafan.com/fiction/content2/eightfear.htmlInterviewer:
[137] If you could only choose a single climate with no variation would you prefer it to be sweltering hot or freezing cold?Enoon:
[138] Freezing cold -- much to the consternation of my wife.Interviewer:
[139] What is the first thing you notice about someone when you meet them?Enoon:
[140] Their use of language.Interviewer:
[141] Have you ever done something that accidentally caused something really bad to happen to someone?Enoon:
[142] I accidentally forgot to re-tune about 300 pagers a few months ago that were sent out to various customers. We got them back and John (the owner of the company) told me that whatever money we could have made on the sale was eaten up by repair costs. I apologized profusely, which he accepted and he told me that I was going to repair every single pager. I did and finished it two weeks later. Thankfully, John didn't fire me. He did, however, inform me that if I wasn't careful, he was going to terminate me, but that was late November of last year.Interviewer:
[143] How is $25 well spent?Enoon:
[144] On a good book and lunch at Penn Station.Interviewer:
[145] Would you rather live in a sociable suburb, or alone in the deep woods?Enoon:
[146] Somewhere in the middle. Deep enough in the woods to be alone, but close enough to any sort of mall or shopping center so I can get supplies if I need to.Interviewer:
[147] What literary character did you most identify with as a child?Enoon:
[148] Bink from A Spell For Chameleon.Interviewer:
[149] What is the source of your inspiration?Enoon:
[150] The question 'what if?'Interviewer:
[151] Where do your ideas come from?Enoon:
[152] Everywhere.Interviewer:
[153] What do you find most satisfying about your job?Enoon:
[154] The people I work with.Interviewer:
[155] What are the three things you enjoy most about writing?Enoon:
156] (1) Letting my mind run free for an hour at a time. (2) Building a fictional world and populating it. (3) Creating a history for a story and having it intermesh with real history at key places.Interviewer:
[157] What were your favorite book, TV show, and movie when you were a teenager and what do you think of them now?Enoon:
[158] Book: A Spell For Chameleon by Piers Anthony. I loved the concept and the characters, but now. . . the puns are killing me.
TV Show: The Twilight Zone on CBS, when it enjoyed a regretfully short-lived Renaissance. I would love to have some of the episodes on tape. That show introduced me to the power of REALLY good writing.
Movie: Batman It was the first time that someone had taken one of my favorite comic book heroes and made him the way he was supposed to be in the comic -- not the campy version from the TV. I still like it and I still watch it when I get the chance.Interviewer:
[159] What's your idea of a perfect world?Enoon:
[160] A world where our worth is judged by what we do to enrich the lives of others, not by the numbers of left hand zeros in our bank accounts.Interviewer:
[161] How real is your fiction to you?Enoon:
[162] Sometimes I hear the characters talking to me, telling me about their day, their lives and their stories.Interviewer:
[163] What Disney character do you most identify with and why?Enoon:
[164] Baloo from The Jungle Book. He's laid back and concerned with only today. A lot like me.Interviewer:
[165] Who do you read for inspiration?Enoon:
[166] Steven King and Harry Turtledove.Interviewer:
[167] When you were a kid what did you want to be when you grew up?Enoon:
[168] A chemist. . . a football player. . . an actor. . . a physicist. . . a rhythm guitarist. . . a writer.Interviewer:
[169] What are the limits in sacrifices for true love?Enoon:
[170] If there are limits to true love, then the love isn't true, it is?Interviewer:
[171] If you could interview your favorite author, what questions would you ask? And, WHY?Enoon:
[172] To Steven King: Over the years, your horror has been shifting from the Supernatural to the more mundane horrors of everyday life. Was this a conscious choice, or do you believe that you've dried up that particular well? Why? Because I liked his earlier works and I am curious.Interviewer:
[173] What makes a great kisser?Enoon:
[174] Enthusiasm.Interviewer:
[175] What have you learned from your animals?Enoon:
[176] Be friendly until given a reason not to be, then hold nothing back.Interviewer:
[177] Does our society glorify violence to the point we have become desensitized to it and the consequences?Enoon:
[178] Yes.Interviewer:
[179] What is your motto?Enoon:
[180] "From one thing, know ten thousand things" -- Miyamoto MusashiInterviewer:
[181] What do you think we take too seriously as writers?Enoon:
[182] The whole craft at times. If you feel the need to suffer for your art, maybe you should try something else. Writing should be approached the same way a child approaches play time -- with unrestrained joy.Interviewer:
[183] If you were given the choice of having to ghost write for a famous person and receive lots of money, or to write under your own name, but work in obscurity and for nothing, which would you take?Enoon:
[184] Either one -- as long as I am writing something, I am fine.
After the decline of his television career, Casper became less friendly,
took a correspondence course, and became a writer.
Enoon's Stories
Enoon's e-mail address: enoonerehwon@hotmail.com
Enoon's website: http://www.geocities.com/enoonerehwon2000
The following can be found at: http://www.geocities.com/enoonerehwon2000
The Pardoner's Path Series
Well Worn Path
A coup d'etat throws the Conqueror out of power. Under her advice of her deceased lover, she begins to work on absolution.Bridge Of Cinders
Gabrielle finds herself among the Amazons. Will they administer their justice, or can she convince them that the rumors are true?Darker Hearts
In the World Of Darkness, the Kindred play their power games among unknowing mortals. What happens, however, when love stirs among a cold heart?Dancing Mad
Gabrielle is seduced by the Maenads, leaving Xena alone and confused.The following story can be found at:
http://casaloco.com/crysanium/bards/enoon/fey_night.shtmlFey Night
An argument sends Gabrielle into the arms of the Fair Folk.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Kamouraskan for the beta.
Articles
L. J. Maas and Murphy Wilson [Amy Murphy].One Step Beyond ... Uber, That Is. WHOOSH #49 (October 2000)
The "Inside the Head of..." series in Whoosh issues #58, 61-66,68-71
Biography
Amy Murphy
Thirty-one-year-old Amy Murphy resides in Indiana, and is an avid reader of Xena: Warrior Princess Fan Fiction. If it exists in the Xenaverse, chances are she has read it! Murphy has also tried her hand at writing fan fiction, turning out two very nice pieces that reside on a couple of web sites throughout the Xenaverse.
Favorite episode: IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE (24/124)
Favorite line: "I Have Many Skills" Various episodes
First episode seen: TITANS (07/107)
Least favorite episode: LYRE, LYRE HEARTS ON FIRE (100/510)
