Del Floria's Interview with Ladysmith

Interviews by Fans
Title:	Del Floria's Interview with Ladysmith
Interviewer:	Del Floria (Live Journal)
Interviewee:	Ladysmith
Date(s):	February 10, 2013
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 Ladysmith 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

Do you feel as passionate about your creativity now as when you started? Why/why not? Oh, definitely! This is my lifeblood now -- everything that I learned writing fanfiction now comes into play with my original works. And I still write fanfiction. It gives me a break from my own worldbuilding to go play in someone else's sandbox for a while.

What do you consider your weakest piece of work and why do you consider it so?

The ones under my bed, written back when I had no idea what I was doing. Mary-Sues, contrived plots, self-insertions. If you have a bad-fanfic Bingo card, I think I hit them ALL. Which is why they're under the bed.

Now, if you mean in MfU fandom, that would be the Dynamo Room Round Robin I ran. By the time we wrapped it, I had to kill off the Innocent. I had to. She was such a damned Sue that if I'd let her live, she'd have ended up running UNCLE inside of six months. I liked her when I created her, but by the time the story ended I was "PLEASE, let her die!"

How would you respond to a critic who says, “Oh, you write fan fiction. You’re not a real writer.”

"Oh? Have you see my Amazon author page?"

And right now, with the swell of interest in what is essentially fanfiction with the names changed (50 Shades of Gray -- which was originally Twilight fanfiction), fanfic writers are getting a heck of a lot more scrutiny! I don't think the disparagement will last very long. But that might be wishful thinking on my part.