Ask the Author: estrella30
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Ask the Author: estrella30 |
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| Interviewee: | estrella30 |
| Date(s): | May 7, 2007 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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estrella30 was interviewed for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
A little about me. I've been writing and posting fanfiction for a little over seven years. My first fandom was a Yahoo groups list fandom, where I wrote approximately ninety billion pages of horribly punctuated, mary sue, hetfic *g* I posted my first story over there in Feb. of 2000 and hung around the Yahoo groups for a while before getting a code for an lj in Oct. of 2003.Once on lj I was pretty monofannishly in the Due South fandom for a few years. I wrote over fifty DS fics, then poked around a few other fandoms until that fateful Tuesday night in Sept. 2005. Once Supernatural hit, I was done for.
I wrote my first SPN fic - Ghosts And Demons - the night after the pilot aired and posted it in the week between the pilot and Wendingo. After that I watched all the episodes, but didn't get really fannishly involved until January, 2006.... uhm. I've been writing and posting fanfic for just over seven years. and to be honest, I dont know. I love writing fanfic. I already have all this canon and these characters, so I dont have to like, really *build* anything from scratch. I can add to it with my fic, or extrapolate different events, but to me it's a lot easier and more fullfilling *not* to have to make up this whole new universe, so to speak.
also, I love writing. it's my hobby, what I do to have fun, and I worry that if it's something I *have* to do - with money involved and budgets and deadlines - those aspects of it will overtake the fun part and it'll be just like WORK and then I have to find a whole new hobby, you know? *g*
My first fandom was a book based fandom (it was actually a fiction group for fanfic for the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich) which - book based is weird when there's no supporting movie because while writing style is easier to imitate, people's conceptions of the characters - what they look like, their mannerisms, etc - change from person to person. So that was weird.All my other tv or movie fandoms had closed canon. Due South has it's 64 episodes and that's it. You know how it ends, you know what happens. There's no changes from week to week. Same thing with Fast and the Furious. Sure there's always room for sequels and such, but the movie itself is it's own thing, you know?
But in SPN things change from week to week. Season to season. Sure we can write something and call it 'post-series' but how do we *know* how the series will end? We have no idea. And especially with episode based stories sometimes it's a real rush to try and get something in your head, on paper, off to beta, corrected and posted by the time the next week's episode comes on, because anything in that new episode - canon facts, locations, even the tone of the episode itself - can be so drastically different from one week to the next that what you're working on now seems totally off base by the time the new episode airs.
So yeah, having the show still on the air is a HUGE difference compared to every other fandom I've been in for sure *g*