Chronicle X Interview with Sarah Segretti
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| Title: | Chronicle X Interview with Sarah Segretti |
| Interviewer: | uncredited |
| Interviewee: | Sarah Segretti |
| Date(s): | May 2000 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Files |
| External Links: | interview is here; copy |
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Chronicle X Interview with Sarah Segretti was conducted in 2000 by the Chronicle X archive.
Some Excerpts
Always, always, always. I once wrote a little story based on my first-grade reader starring Dick, Jane and Oh Jane, whom I mistakenly believed to be a separate person. I also have the required teenage fantasy fic involving a high school teacher and a rock star (my best friend and co-writer got the rock star; I got the teacher), and if anyone ever unearthed all the unfinished Star Wars fic I've got around here, I'd be mortified. (I still like my version of "Return of the Jedi" better.) Oh, yeah, I do have some non-fic work -- one finished script and one unfinished novel, plus a few (probably awful) short stories I wrote for creative writing classes. Outside of that script, and probably the Oh Jane story, XF fic is the only fiction I've ever completed without a professor giving me a due date.
<insert standard continuity rant here> I think it's just sloppy and lazy on the part of 1013, frankly. Don't get me started on the mytharc. But then again, if everything in the show fit together, there would be a whole lot less inspiration for those of us inspired by episodes that don't hang together. <g> Oh, and I'd like a small memory wipe to erase the horrible mental images I still get of the "Dreamland" mirror dance. Thank you.
Feedback was a revelation, since I get very little at work. I will say that I'm grateful that I got a lot of enthusiastic response to my first story. I don't know if I would have kept on going if I hadn't, especially since I didn't have a second story idea in mind at the time. The fact that people wanted more spurred me to write more.Hmm. That sounds like I write for feedback, which is not the case. (I didn't even know feedback existed when I started!) I write because I want to, and I write what I want to -- I posted a post-Hungry story in the middle of the post-Millennium rush, after all -- but knowing that people liked my stuff was a stupendous impetus to continue. I've posted a couple of things that got considerably less feedback than my original piece, but it didn't much matter; any feedback is good feedback.
And I will say, after having been nominated for a couple of 1999 Spookys but not winning, I will never ever again mock actors or singers who say that it was simply an honor to be nominated. Because they're right.
My husband and my sisters [know I write XF fanfic], as do a small handful of my closest friends. I assume all the associated husbands do, too, but I've never asked. With one exception, all of them said, "Hey, you should write a novel!" The exception, my sister the Original Phile (she's been into it since S1), said, "Hey, you should write one of those X-Files novels!" Bless her semi-obsessed little heart.What do they think? I have no idea. My husband is amused and tolerant. He teases me every so often, and I think he was pleased by my Spooky nominations. The others think it's cool I do it, but have never said anything directly about any of the stories. I can live with that.
Is this the place where I can insert a cute-kid story? My children are too young to watch XF, although they know it exists. One day my son, who is in kindergarten, informed me that he knew what it was about: "It's about Scully, and that boy with Scully, and it's dark, and they have flashlights, and they look for aliens." That's the most accurate synopsis of the show you're ever going to get. <g>