Be Gentle With Us Interview: Katy Deery

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Title: Be Gentle With Us Interview: Katy Deery
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Interviewee: Katy Deery
Date(s): 1992
Medium: print
Fandom(s): The Professionals
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Be Gentle With Us Interview: Katy Deery are answers to a questionnaire.

The answers were printed in Be Gentle With Us #8 and #10. It's possible that there were more replies printed in #9, #11, and #12 as well.

The Known Participants

The Twenty-One Questions

Which of your stories do you like best?

Conversely, any you cringe about now with hindsight?

Are you inspired by external factors, such as music?

How much research do you do?

How many drafts do you write before submitting the story?

What makes you write slash?

How do you react to editor's criticism or reviews of your work?

Do you keep a piece of writing to yourself until it is finished, or would you seek the advice of others at a fairly early stage?

Do you worry about plagiarism?

How do you feel about another writer rewriting the end of your story, or writing a sequel (with or without permission?)

Do you prefer to write about the characters in the CI5 setting or is any universe/time fair game?

Do you keep rigidly to the characterisation used in the aired episodes?

Do you ever deliberately change the characterization, or does it happen unconsciously?

Do you work on more than one story at a time?

Do you write sex scenes to titillate the reader?

How do you go about writing sex scenes? (Resort to strong drink and let your imagination run riot?)

Would you like to be a professional writer?

Were you a writer before you discovered fandom?

If you were a writer before discovering fandom, has the experience of reading fan literature changed your own writing?

Have other writers in fandom or stories that you have read influenced your own work?

Have you been influenced by writers or writing from outside of fandom?

Some Excerpts

Which of your stories do you like best?

Probably a B7 story that I haven't sent to be published yet. It's a bit darker than any I've done before, and I enjoy writing about these two characters.

Conversely, any you cringe about now with hindsight?

Some STAR TREK stories I wrote a few years back I'd change. Usually it's not so much the entire story I dislike as certain

What makes you want to write slash?

If you like to write anyway, which I do, then you tend to want to write the sort of stuff you would enjoy reading, in my case slash. Also, it gives the writer a chance to exercise control over characters that they are particularly fond of, so that they act in the way they would wish them to act.

How do you react to editors' criticism, or reviews of your work?

I don't suppose that I could honestly say that I enjoy criticism, I doubt whether most people do, but I think it is very necessary that someone should be able to look objectively at your work and point out things that should perhaps be changed. Others can often see what the writer cannot, and another's views can stop the writer from making an error or just generally improve the story. Of course, just saying that you think a story is rubbish isn't very constructive, and might well put the author off showing their work to anyone in future.

Do you worry about plagiarism?

Not so far, but I think I would be upset if I were to read a a story that was obviously a complete rip-off of something I had done. I'd probably be inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt, and think that it was just coincidence unless the exact text were copied.

How do you feel about another writer re-writing the end of your story, or writing a sequel (with or without permission)?

I feel that permission from the author should be obtained if possible when an ending to a story is re-written, but I don't feel this is absolutely necessary for a sequel to a story. I would think it a compliment that someone would even make the effort to write a sequel. Sometimes, though, a sequel or re-write can simply be because the reader was unsatisfied by the original story, and wishes to change the outcome. I wouldn't mind that either, particularly, but I'd prefer a sequel in this case, where they would write their own story rather than a re-write of my ending.

Do you write sex scenes to titillate the reader?

I must admit that I probably put the sex scenes in because most readers will want one, rather than that I particularly like to write them, so I suppose I am putting them in for the readers titillation.

Would you like to be a professional writer?

Yes, but I probably haven't got the dedication to sit the required amount of hours doing the work and typing it up afterwards.

References

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