Del Floria's Interview with Scherwood

Interviews by Fans
Title:	Del Floria's Interview with Scherwood
Interviewer:	Del Floria (Live Journal)
Interviewee:	Scherwood
Date(s):	April 15, 2012
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 Scherwood 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

If you had to do it all over again, would you and what would you change in the process? I'm not a supporter of changing fics after I've posted them. I don't know why, I just never do it. It would ruin that fic in some way I think, because then it won't be the same fic as when I first posted. And I'm usually quite pleased with my fics when I'm done with them, so why change them at all? I just don't get it, sorry.

What is the story you “dare not write” or the picture “you dare not create”? I would never make the boys go through non-con or dub-con, ever, that's just not me. There's enough of that in real life, so I don't want to write or read about it if I can help it. But I think everything else is okay, because I'm open to most things, and... wait, out of character, that's not okay, ever. If you want to write them like a girl, or whatever, then make them a girl instead of some wimpy boy. Yeah, gender change is okay too. Wait, I think I left the question behind somewhere. Dare not? I think I *would* dare a lot.

How would you respond to a critic who says, “Oh, you write fan fiction? You’re not a real writer.” My answer: Then what do you call those words on my computer, together forming a text? Vegetables? Because to me... it looks like I'm a writer, writing a text. And if you don't think so then I don't care, because I'm happy with what I do. And before you say anything else about me or my writing, you needs to open that narrow mind of your, because if you don't, I won't take anything you say seriously.