Chronicle X Interview with Suzanne Schramm
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| Title: | Chronicle X Interview with Suzanne Schramm |
| Interviewer: | uncredited |
| Interviewee: | Suzanne Schramm |
| Date(s): | October 1999 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Files |
| External Links: | interview online here; copy |
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Chronicle X Interview with Suzanne Schramm was conducted by the Chronicle X archive.
Some Excerpts
I've never done a fanfic interview before so I'm a little nervous about making an ass of myself. Do I look okay? Is this lipstick too dark?
I've always written stories for my own amusement and sometimes for my friends and/or family. The past seven years or so my writing has slacked off as other things (like a husband and a son) took precedence. I never had much impetus to write anything. When I got Internet access I didn't know what to do with it. Someone showed me how to search (yes - I was that dense) so I put in the XF, just to see what came up. I read a lot of review sites, take-this-quiz sites, stuff like that before I happened upon Paula Graves' web site and, from there, Gossamer. Once I saw what other people were doing I started thinking about the M/S stories I'd had all along in my head. It wasn't long before I starting thinking about actually writing them down.... I got hooked the first season. After shows like "Squeeze", "Ice", "Beyond the Sea" and "Lazarus" I would make up stories in my head about what was happening off camera. But it wasn't until I saw that a few brazen souls were posting stories that actually thought about writing them down.
When I signed up to get free e-mail I picked the moniker "Sister Sue" because that was my dad's nickname for me as a child. What's so odd about that is that Sue is not my name. When I wrote my first story I figured "Suzanne" was a great name for the account and "Schramm" just followed it so well. Say it: "Suzanne Schramm". It rhymes. It's almost musical. I've come to terms with my duality now and answer just as readily to "Sue" as I do my real name.
Being an old married fart I really don't have that many friends I hang out with anymore. My entire family knows (with the exception of my father - God forbid he should ever find out I wrote smut). They're all very supportive, always asking what I'm writing and if they can read it. I'd freak twice and die if my co-workers ever found out.