Chronicle X Interview with Analise
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| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Chronicle X Interview with Analise |
| Interviewer: | uncredited |
| Interviewee: | Analise |
| Date(s): | October 1999 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Files |
| External Links: | Interview with Analise (Chronicle X); copy |
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Chronicle X Interview with Analise was conducted in 1999 by the Chronicle X archive.
Some Excerpts
I don't want to call the things I wrote in High School stories, but there you have it. I guess it was a prehistoric form of fanfic. I did a lot of rambling, nonsensical, self-indulgent scribbling, --filled countless spiral notebooks that I can't bring myself to either re-read or throw away-- stories about my favorite band (Duran Duran..yeah, I'm embarrassed about it now) and Star Wars. I discovered the world of fanfic around about '94 and the first thing I posted was a Babylon 5 fic. I only managed about 4 stories or so over there before I came over to Xfic and discovered the caliber of writing was SO much higher and the fic possibilites were nearly endless. Plus, I was addicted to the X-Files.
... my first real public post was that B5 fic, and I honestly can't remember what made me do it. I think part of it was reading everything that people were doing for a while and then writing, privately, until I figured that I was at least as good as the worst thing I read. I posted it. Got my first feedback letter and decided, hey, I was doing this shit anyway, why not do it and get gratification too?!
My boyfriend is the only one that knows [I write fanfic]. He thinks it's a little silly that I won't write my own stories, but he has read a few of my fics and he's been very supportive and helpful. He's a writer himself, and he tells me he is slightly envious of the fun that I seem to have writing. That's the beauty of pre-packaged, ready-made characters, I tell him. I haven't been able to bring myself to tell my friends and family, just because a)they're not sci-fi-obsessives like me and b) they really, really wouldn't get it. It's my opinion that only fellow obsessives are interested in fanfic. And thats the way it should be. Written by obsessives, for obsessives.<g>