Del Floria's Interview with Glennagirl
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Del Floria's Interview with Glennagirl |
| Interviewer: | Del Floria (Live Journal) |
| Interviewee: | Glennagirl |
| Date(s): | October 16, 2011 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Man from U.N.C.L.E. |
| External Links: | full interview is here, Archived version |
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Del Floria's Interview with Glennagirl is an interview with a Man from U.N.C.L.E. fan.
It is part of a series at Del Floria's. See Del Floria's Interview Series.==Excerpts==
Are you swayed by other’s reactions to your work or have you set a course and stayed upon it?I like the canon of MFU. I like the men as they were portrayed with just the slightest bit of mystery as to how they arrived there. To me they were and remain a heterosexual pair of men who have a strong emotional bond. The allusions to flirtations are part of the charm, but I would never have assumed it was anything more than very cheeky (nope, no pun) and campy posturing by the two men who played these parts.
I have written exactly three slash stories, the first one in response to the summer solstice prompts. It was playing against type for me so I sought out help for it because it’s not my genre; I felt it was part of the growing up process to at least try my hand at it. I don’t know that I’ll do much more of it, although there is that sequel to The Misunderstanding. It may happen. But, even though a lot of people won’t read my gen work, I’ve decided that it can’t matter; the story is the thing. I hope that I’m sticking to that.
If you had to do it all over again, would you and what would you change in the process?In the process of writing, or the discovery of the genre? I don’t know enough to change what I do. Like so much else in my life, I tend to just dive in and hope for the best. When I started doing murals, it was serendipity playing with me. I walked into a shop and in conversing with the owner, mention was made of a door she wanted painted. I assumed she meant more than just changing the color, and by the time I left I had embarked on a career path.
As for the discovery of fanfiction, more of the same. I just wanted to be a part of it.
How would you respond to a critic who says, “Oh, you write fan fiction. You’re not a real writer.” Well, maybe I’m not a real writer. I suppose that is left for the reader to decide. However, fanfiction is as legitimate as any other creative pursuit, and will, like all things, have its day in the limelight. I think the perception of it will change.