Chronicle X Interview with CazQ

Interviews by Fans
Title:	Chronicle X Interview with CazQ
Interviewer:	uncredited
Interviewee:	CazQ
Date(s):	November 1999
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	X-Files
External Links:	Interview with CazQ (Chronicle X); copy
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Chronicle X Interview with CazQ was conducted in 1999 by the Chronicle X archive.

Some Excerpts

....until I discovered XF fanfic, I hadn't written anything except rather bad poetry in a fair few years. When I was younger, I was lucky enough to have some exceptional teachers who recognised that I loved to write, and encouraged me to write short stories. Then I grew up a bit more and got to that dreadful stage in my schooling where no-one had time to encourage me to write because they were so busy trying to drum the basics of things like trigonometry into my head for exams, and I didn't have time to write because I was so busy struggling with my trigonometry homework :P. I've always loved reading fiction, though, and since I was a kid I've had this tendency to walk out of a cinema after a film or shut off the TV at the end of the night and continue the story in my head for my own amusement. I suppose fanfic was kind of an inevitable step, once I knew it was out there.

I suppose I liked the fact that in amongst all the monsters and bees and oiliens were these two very believable, appealing characters, who gave the Quest a human face: as a fic writer, that makes the job much easier <g>.

Most of all, I got frustrated that the relationship between Mulder and Scully was often so static: earth-shattering events one week, but no apparent emotional repercussions the next week. While in some ways you can excuse that with "but that's necessary for a serial show", it still annoyed me enough to want to go away and explore the relationship between them a little more.

I think really it's just a fun world to write in, because you have openings for so many different angles and types of story, be it angst, MSR, UST, slash, casefile, post-col, whatever, and such complex characters to play with.

The first [XF fanfic I read] *ever* was one of the rather bad ones that you can dig up in Gossamer when you don't really know what you're doing or what you're looking for. I stumbled on Gossamer completely by accident, before I ever knew there was such a thing as fanfic, let alone XF fanfic, and was intrigued enough to open up a story. It wasn't a *good* story, but it was one where Mulder and Scully <gasp!> actually *talked* about their feelings for once! Then one day, still ferreting around in Gossamer, I came across Stephanie Kaiser's 'Merry Christmas, Scully', which is the first one I can *remember*. <even bigger gasp!> Mulder and Scully had *sex*! After I picked myself up off the floor, I somehow found my way from there to the Haven archive. I was hooked, well and truly :).