Cascade Library Interview with Becky

Interviews by Fans
Title:	Cascade Library Interview with Becky
Interviewer:	Cascade Library
Interviewee:	Becky
Date(s):	June 21, 1999
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	The Sentinel
External Links:	interview is here, Archived version
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In 1999, Becky was interviewed for Cascade Library.

Some Excerpts

Funny you should ask since I can't really tell you for sure [how I became a Sentinel fan]. I don't remember how I did this, but I found Tigger's page way back in late 96, in December or something. I'd caught a few episodes when they'd first aired (the pilot, Siege, and Flight), but the show had never truly caught on with me. Then I read some fic and decided maybe I'd watch the show. I caught a rerun of Reunion when I was home for Christmas break and the humor of the 'hallway doors' scene just totally got me. And then when I came back to my apartment in January, I watched the first run of Blind Man's Bluff (and taped it very fortunately, as it is my only copy) and that did it. I was sucked in. Soon after that, I joined the Sentries mailing list, got tapes of first season eps, and settled quite happily into lurking in the fandom. Next up was converting Robyn ... which wasn't as hard as I'd thought it would be...

Well...it's sort of a convoluted little tale [of how I started to create and post transcripts from the show]. A couple months ago I started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer since I knew I'd be running out of TV shows that I like to watch. Since I've missed so much of the show, I knew I'd be lost, but I figured I'd catch most of it by context. When looking around for Buffy fanfic that I could read (still haven't found any authors I truly enjoy), I started with the main Buffy archive and from there found the Buffy episode transcripts. I started reading them and thought to myself that maybe this would be something I could for TS since I know there are folks out there who haven't seen all the episodes and haven't been able to get tapes. So....I started them, digging up a few closed captioning texts to help me along for a handful of them. It's a lot of work, but I enjoy doing stuff for the fandom. What can I say? I like being helpful. ~grin~

I wrote the one piece Conclusions in response to the Guide Posts non-owie smarm challenge, but didn't really think I could really write [smarm] very well. So it wasn't until almost a year later that I wrote first Breezes and then Embrace, the latter of which was something I'd been thinking about doing for a while -- describing a hug from the inside out. I knew when I wrote Embrace that I would find myself writing more of this genre. My theory was that I was doing it right when I took a step further than I was truly comfortable with writing. ~grin~ However, that theory doesn't hold true anymore. So I've had to find other ways to push the boundaries and not just write the same stuff over and over again. Most times when I write a smarm piece, I have a particular image, a freeze frame, in mind. I will write an entire story just to get that one shot, that one moment. And usually, that works for me .

[Regarding the first piece of fan fiction I'd ever read]: Uh....well, I didn't know it was fan fiction at the time, but at the very first Star Trek convention I went to, I bought a Trek fanzine. That was in, oh, man, several years ago, before I went to college. I'm not sure when exactly. Probably sometime during high school, 89 or 90, maybe. I don't remember the stories in it anymore other than they were Trek. I think Data was on the cover. Don't remember really.