Cascade Library Interview with Sealie
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| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Cascade Library Interview with Sealie |
| Interviewer: | Cascade Library |
| Interviewee: | Sealie |
| Date(s): | September 27, 1999 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | The Sentinel |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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In 1999, Sealie was interviewed for Cascade Library.
Some Excerpts
[How I became a Sentinel fan]: This is somewhat convoluted. Basically, I wrote a due South story called Crowded Room. The mountie, Benton Fraser, was at a party and he was having an absolutely dreadful time because he couldn't filter out the noises and smells et cetera. A friend asked me if I had made Fraser a sentinel. I asked a few questions and thought that it was a nice idea. I then went on my ecology field season up north. There was no tele at the field station but there was internet access. I started reading the fan fiction, devouring everything that I could get my hands on. The rest, as they say, is history.
I don't enjoy writing any one character more than any other. I think that is one of the things that attracted me to The Sentinel and due South, in that all the characters are interesting and have their own story to tell. When I was little I happily wrote many stories based on TV series, but I was usually pretty much concentrating on one character at the expense of the others. I always felt that there was something out of balance in those stories (they're in the loft at home festering, BTW). In The Sentinel and due South I came across a patchwork quilt instead of a plain blanket.
[The first fan fiction I'd read was] a Kirk/Spock story. I can't remember the specific story. Apart from the fact that I was very surprised by the content.