How Will It End? Interview with Lara Means
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| Title: | How Will It End? Interview with Lara Means |
| Interviewer: | How Will It End? |
| Interviewee: | Lara Means |
| Date(s): | 2001? |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Files |
| External Links: | full interview is here, Archived version |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Lara Means was interviewed for the X-Files website How Will It End?.
This was part of a series. See How Will It End? Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
I found XF fic during the summer after Season 6, and started writing it that fall. My first story was posted in November of 1999, a post-ep for "Millennium." I got started writing it because I was really impressed by the quality of the stories I read, and also because I knew it would be my only chance as a writer to explore these great characters. XF is the only show I've ever felt so passionately about. I'm a *huge* TV fan, though, and I watch lots of other shows -- read fic for some other shows too, although not much -- but I can't see myself writing fic for anything else.
With CharlieFic, I'd read several Charlie stories and went looking for more. When I realized there were archives for Bill Scully and Melissa Scully but not Charlie, I decided to start one. Unfortunately, that one's kind of stopped right now -- there haven't been many Charlie stories lately, plus Geocities won't let me update with Front Page anymore -- so while CharlieFic will remain on the web, it won't be updated again until I feel the need to move it off of Geocities. I started XFMU when XFC declared all Season 8+ fic and characters banned. At first it was just going to be a mailing list for Doggett and Reyes fic, but I figured we needed an archive too -- now there are almost 1,200 stories there, and over 200 members on the mailing list.
The only real controversy XFMU has caused was about the time it launched -- a few people on atxc were a little peeved that I'd twisted Mulder's very first ever line on the show ("Nobody down here but the FBI's most unwanted") into an archive name for the new characters (The X-Files Most Unwanted). I felt it was perfect, though, since the reaction of some fic fans was that Doggett and Reyes *were* unwanted.