Getting 2 Know Darcie Friesen Hossack

 

photo by Lori-Anne Poirier

Q: What is your favourite thing about writing?

Darcie Friesen Hossack: People don’t always believe me, but I find writing incredibly difficult. Stories rarely feel like they’re inking themselves onto the page. I write, rewrite, rewrite the rewritten rewrites, throw out more than I keep. But then there will be this moment when I feel all the elements come together. The landscape becomes a real place. Characters and metaphors become part of their world. It begins to feel like memory instead of story.

It’s like working on a ball of string that seems hopelessly knotted, until I suddenly pull on the right loop and everything becomes straight. That’s my favourite thing. When the knots come undone.

Q: What do you think readers would be most surprised to learn about you?

Darcie Friesen Hossack: I’m hopelessly smitten with Sci-Fi and fantasy TV and movies. Star Trek, Stargate, Firefly. When I can’t seem to write, I have a Firefly marathon, finishing with Serentity, the movie. A pox on Fox for canceling Firefly in the middle of its first season!

Then there’s Lord of the Rings. My husband and I have an annual Hobbit Day, when we watch all three extended edition films and prepare seven Hobbit meals: Breakfast, Second Breakfast, Elevensies, Luncheon, Afternoon Tea, Dinner and Supper. It’s the best day of the year.