Chronicle X Interview with Maria Nicole
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| Title: | Chronicle X Interview with Maria Nicole |
| Interviewer: | uncredited |
| Interviewee: | Maria Nicole |
| Date(s): | December 2000 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Files |
| External Links: | interview is here; copy |
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Chronicle X Interview with Maria Nicole was conducted in 2000 by the Chronicle X archive.
Some Excerpts
As I'm writing this, it's pre-season 8, and unspecified mutterings of discontent are making their way into my little spoiler-free world. Based on those mutterings, I suspect there's a lot I'm going to want to change; I just don't know what yet. Based on my current knowledge, though, I want them to deal with the things that have been done to Scully--the three months taken from her, the fertility taken and given back, the chip in her neck--in ways that don't demean her as either a woman or an investigator.
I started watching the show with a group of college friends mid-season four. By the summer, I was irreversibly hooked on both the show and fanfic. Going home for the summer put me into withdrawal--no fanfic! no reviews! no new episodes! no marathon videotape sessions with my friends to catch me up on the earlier episodes!--so I wrote my own 20 page ending to Gethsemane. Given that there's about one paragraph of worth in there, it's fortunate that I didn't have Internet access and couldn't post. I wrote a few other stories that were solely for friends before working up the courage to post something to Gossamer over a year later.
I would write without it, but it's tremendously rewarding to know that other people are reading. And I've gotten to meet other writers through feedbacking relationships. *Giving* feedback has also been enriching, both because of the friendships that develop and because, when I take the trouble to point out my favorite parts of someone else's story, I start to pinpoint why I liked that part and pick up some very good writing techniques.
Favorite authors. Okay. Some people are consistently good, but Jesemie's Evil Twin is consistently brilliant. Her stories amaze me with their characterization, their language use, their compassion, and their imagination. The authors on the beta list that I'm a part of, Yes Virginia, floor me on a pretty consistent basis. And I also get very happy when I see that there are new stories by Sarah Segretti, Kipler, Dreamshaper, Alelou, JLB, Barbara D., Haphazard Method, Meredith, Ambress, Nevdull, Syntax6, Jintian Li, Michelle Kiefer, or Revely.As for stories, I'm a sucker for a good casefile--Nevdull's Gazzaniga, Ophelia's Any Means Necessary, Vickie Moseley and Summer's The Sound of Your Voice, Justin Glasser's Lonely Nightmare, Revely's The Dreaming Sea, Syntax6's Embers, and Magdeleine's Gutless come to mind immediately. Lydia Bower and Khyber both do lovely longer explorations of the Mulder/Scully relationship in Dance Without Sleeping and Reach.
CazQ does a wonderful job of evoking mood in The Long Lowering Hour, as does Alanna in Burn. The opening lines of Dasha's Fingers are beautifully constructed on a technical level, and the story itself is powerful and haunting. The closing lines of GMD614's Snow on the Vineyard and Forte's Chilled send me back to look at those stories in a new light. I have a certain vision of Mulder and Scully that I like to see: fucked up but striving for emotional well-being, and I find that in Cecily Sasserbaum's Above Minnesota, Toniann's The Story of Our Lives, Pteropod's Touch the Moon, Liz Owens' Refreshment, Fialka's Backstop, Dreamshaper's Luminescence, Haphazard Method's Reading Between the Lines, JET's Relic of Tough Weather, and Sarah Segretti's The Current Temperature in Downtown Washington is 94 degrees.
For the occasional dose of sheer angst, I turn to Alicia K's Lux Aeterna, Kipler's Strangers and the Strange Dead, Jintian's Li's Petaluma, Michaela's Grace Realized, Anne Haynes' Shooting Star series, and Summer and Amperage's Bargains.
Finally, despite the fact that I was drawn into the X-Files by Mulder and Scully, I have a soft spot for stories that take the secondary characters and put them in the spotlight. For the Lone Gunmen and Suzanne Modeski, I turn to cofax's No Time for Dancing. For a fresh view of Samantha, I like Maggie McCain's Ashes and Oatmeal and Marasmus' The Tunnel at the End of the Light. Branwell's Spoiled Children and Maureen O'Brien's A Lady From a Far Country present very different portraits of Teena Mulder, but I like them both. Nikki puts a fascinating spin on Marita in Distorted Mirror Image. Marguerite's Worth Her Weight is one of my favorite views of Skinner; Tara Avery's Proditio is another. And Marasmus brings back my favorite dead Consortium member, Well Manicured Man, in Stand by the Window.
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