Cascade Library Interview with Red Soprano

Interviews by Fans
Title:	Cascade Library Interview with Red Soprano
Interviewer:	Cascade Library
Interviewee:	Red Soprano
Date(s):	December 20, 2002
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	The Sentinel
External Links:	interview is here, Archived version
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In 2002, Red Soprano was interviewed for Cascade Library.

Some Excerpts

I'd seen the ads for the show, but it didn't really strike me as something that I'd particularly like. I accidentally caught part of a couple of episodes and still didn't get hit by the bug. I think it was "Ice Man" that finally hooked me. Remember the rib-taping scene? Wow. GM was totally gorgeous that whole ep. Just so you know I'm not completely shallow, though, the reason I kept watching was because of the wonderful relationship between Jim and Blair. I adore buddy shows and RB and GM had such a great chemistry together.

I was sitting in front of my computer putting the finishing touches on the third draft of the proposal for my third dissertation topic and it occurred to me, "Wow! I could have been writing fanfic!" As it turns out, my fanfic certainly found a lot more appreciative and supportive audience than my dissertation committee turned out to be. Seriously, I've always wanted to write but never felt I had the talent or the patience for it. I'm also really self-conscious about my grasp of the simple nuts and bolts of writing. I read some really good stuff when I first discovered fanfic (Martha's Ordeal just blew me away.) I honestly didn't intend to try my hand at it, until a plot bunny hatched and started pestering me until I finally wrote it down. I have a couple of lengthy stories from the days when I was just fiddling around, with no real intention of posting. The thing that finally got me going was a Missing Scene challenge by the folks at Guide Posts. Oh to be a Fly on the Wall came from that. I discovered then that I really, really like missing scenes.

[The works I'm most proud of are] JuJuBes and the Art of Male Bonding. I really love stories where the writer gives us this insight into the depth of the friendship between Jim and Blair without hitting us over the head with that whole "he stopped to ponder how his life had changed since this 'bundle of energy'/'hard-nosed cop' came into his life" spiel. Again, I have to give credit to Martha for that wonderful scene in Ordeal where Jim runs across Blair's name in the footnote of an article and ... oh, I can't remember how Martha worded it, but she says something about Jim's pleasant surprise at running across Blair's name in that article, almost as if he'd looked up to see Blair himself standing there. I remember thinking, "Wow. She got it. She let me see what these two men mean to each other and she didn't tell me too much. She just showed me." It was simple, it was elegant, it hit right at my heart. Anyway, with JuJuBes..., I was striving for that light touch, leaving a lot of things unspoken, but still conveying how important these two men were to each other. I'm hoping it turned out okay.