An Interview with Morgana Starr
Morgana
Starr has been active on site for a long time, and it has been a family endeavour,
you could say. She's most likely to be found on the Sci-Fi beat, although I
doubt there's any hard and fast rule to this. Over the years she's honed her
creativity and plot development skills, and it is with some perseverance that I
track her down to interview her.
When did you first arrive to our online sanctuary, and what brought you to
PanHistoria? What keeps you stimulated here? (What would stimulate you further
here?)
I came to the site about six years ago. I was recruited by my mom, Saoirse Ui
Niall, otherwise known as Her Supreme Redness. The stimulation to keep coming
back to PH is purely mental; I enjoy the fact that it gives me a forum to be
creative and exercise my mind with new and interesting ideas.
Although Morgana Starr is in many novels, how do you envision her overall
personality and character traits? It's evident she's dynamic and not easily
intimidated. Are there personality differences between her novels?
The defining characteristics applied to Morgana in any of her iterations are her
fearlessness and her stoic nature. There are some alterations in terms of minor
details like her motivation and how strongly she may follow any sort of
morality, but at her core she's just your standard badass who does what she
wants, how she wants to.
Which of Morgana's novels is currently your favourite, and why? What's
happening there? Where do you think your character will go, if she can?
I dunno. She's in quite a few, and I can't really pick a favourite. Each version
of her brings something a little different to the proverbial table. It all
really boils down to what I feel like doing at the time, I suppose. In terms of
where she'll go in any of her stories… it depends on where she wants to go.
Morgana is a MoB of New Teen Titans. Your readership would like to
know about your role there, how you guide this adventure in creative writing.
Yeah, NTT died. Interest dropped and the stories started to become repetitive
and drop away from the original idea and I had no clues on how to get it back to
what it was supposed to be. Without enough writers and creative minds putting
their intellectual muscle behind the novel, I just felt like continuing it would
be an exercise in pointlessness. On a related note, though, I've been talking
with friends to see if we could come up with another, different superhero type
story that has a bit more originality behind it than NTT ever did.
And now, something about you, yourself. If there was any place anywhere on
Earth, or away from this world, that you'd care to visit, where would that be,
and why?
Hell if I know. There are lots of places I'd want to go, just because they seem
interesting. I guess one place I'd really like to see is the plane of Alara from
the Magic: the Gathering card game. And yeah, I know. I'm a nerd, but who
isn't on some level?
Well, thank you, Morgana. I'll let you return to your newest endeavours, and
I look forward to reading your future escapades.