Write an interview between your real/current self and your ideal/fantasy self.
RS: Hello, Indigo. Thank you for coming in to speak with me today.
FS: Hi. Thanks for having me.
RS: So let's get right to it, shall we? You've been causing quite a ruckus lately haven't you?
FS: Well yes, I have been told that. I've barely noticed with all that's been going on. But of course I'm still very grateful to everyone who's been helping me, and showing me support.
RS: Yes, well let's not get too far ahead of ourselves.
FS: Sorry.
RS: That's right, you are. Now it all started with this book your wrote, didn't it? Tell us a bit about that.
FS: Well it was a bit of a surprise for me actually. Writing a book was something I had always wanted to do, and I had all of these ideas but it seemed like I could never make anything work. But this came along and it actually all fell into place quite nicely.
RS: And what is it called?
FS: It's called "One Litre of Life."
RS: And what is that? What does that mean?
FS: Well it's kind of nonsense, clearly, because you can never really objectively measure someone's life. But I wanted to share some personal things in this book, and I knew that no matter how many words or pages or chapters or whatever I wrote, I could never convey the full experience of my life to anyone else. You know? Even my mother or my sister or something, even they have not seen every little thing, they haven't experienced it as I have. So I just came up with some obscure value to represent the amount of my life I would share with others. And that was it.
RS: And you've made some money off this haven't you?
FS: Well more than I thought I would, certainly. But I'm not going to be competing with Harry Potter in this lifetime.
RS: And after that you've done a couple other things, what was next?
FS: I've always loved music, and I've always kind of harboured this secret desire to be a singer. But I was never very good. But once I had the opportunity I was like "Well what the hell, lots of famous people aren't that great" so I got some people together and we made an album.
RS: And you named the band after a song by someone else, didn't you?
FS: Yes, "Gunning Down Romance." It's a Savage Garden song.
RS: It's not a very cheerful song, is it?
FS: No, not really. But neither is the stuff I write, generally.
RS: And the album has actually led to something else, even.
FS: Yes. Well, it's called Me My Misery and I think it kind of stuck out to some people because they were like "Hey... this person wrote a book I read. It has some of the same stuff as the book, that's neat." and then a few people started to kind of look into me as a person a bit more. And that's how it came to light that for a while I had wanted to make video games, and that I had all these unused ideas sitting around. So someone who actually read one of my books contacted me and was like "Hey, let's hear one of these ideas." And we talked for a while and in the end we decided to make it. And they're actually going to make a few more, a whole series. But I'm not supposed to tell you that.
RS: I promise to tell no one but the editor and every single member of the public who reads this. But we're almost out of time so why don't you just give us a short summary of anything else going on?
FS: Well, it's hard finding the time but I'm currently working on a trilogy of fantasy novels, and GDR is working on our second album too. I found my soul mate and we got married and we're about to adopt our third child. We have three dogs, all rescued from shelters, and have adopted a total of 20 other animals to donate to other families. We live in a big mansion with all our best friends and we eat potato wedges every week.
RS: Fantastic. Thank you for all of that.
~ Indigo
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