Inside the Head of Archaeobard
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| Interviews by Fans | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Inside the Head of Archaeobard |
| Interviewer: | Amy Murphy |
| Interviewee: | Archaeobard |
| Date(s): | October 2001 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Xena: Warrior Princess |
| External Links: | full interview is here, Archived version |
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Inside the Head of Archaeobard is a 2001 Xena: Warrior Princess fan interview at Whoosh!.
Series
For others in this series, see Whoosh! Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
I started writing stories and poems when I was 16. It was a way of me dealing with my mother's death, I suppose. I penned hundreds of poems and began to write fantasy stories. I think the first thing I wrote was a huge trilogy called The Singing Sword. I threw it out a few years ago, now I wish I hadn't. I started writing Xena fan fic basically because I was bored when I was working overseas in the United Arab Emirates in 1999. I was sharing a house with a bunch of English archaeologists and they asked me to write a sex story. So I wrote my first Janice and Mel story, Decisions, and ran from there. I had been browsing Xena fan fiction for a while and thought I could do the same, and the Brits gave me the incentive. Strange to have a PWP [Plot? What Plot?] story read out to a group of sex deprived archaeologists in the middle of a desert, though.
The show? [What it means to me?] Not a great deal. I enjoyed watching it. But as a concept, it helped me meet some wonderful people, some of whom I have loved, some of whom I love, and some of whom I don't get on very well with. Being associated with those people helped me become the person I am today.
[The show's ending] doesn't bother me, because the friendships I have made through the Xenaverse will hopefully last a lifetime, and after all, they are the things that truly matter, not a TV show.
[Could you or have you ever experienced, you or someone else reading one of your stories aloud in the public? What did / would you feel? ]: Yes, the first Janice and Mel PWP story I wrote. I knew it was going to be read aloud when I wrote it, so I had no problem with it. Although it was funny to hear it read by a woman who sounded like Ringo doing Thomas the Tank Engine.