How Will It End? Interview with Punk Maneuverability
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| Title: | How Will It End? Interview with Punk Maneuverability |
| Interviewer: | How Will It End? |
| Interviewee: | Punk Maneuverability |
| Date(s): | 2002? |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Files |
| External Links: | full interview is here, Archived version |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Punk Maneuverability 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 started writing XF fanfic back in the dark ages of 1997. It was February. Me and my 2400 baud modem were away at college when I got the flu. With nothing else to do in my dorm room, I spontaneously (sort of) discovered fandom. I got on the newsgroups -- atx and atxc -- and soon after that I posted my first fic. It was fluffy and schmoopy and badly out of character, but everyone was very supportive and I kept writing and I got better at it. I'd always considered myself a writer, but for the first time I felt like I was getting somewhere with it because I actually had people reading my stuff. People who didn't even know me!
With a few exceptions, I've always written my XF fics as happening sort of outside the canon timeline. So I have to say the show itself never really interfered in my writing. *g* I totally don't agree with the way the Samantha arc was ended, and that actually did throw a wrench into the big Samantha story I was planning, but I figure Chris Carter changed his mind so many times that I'm allowed to pick and choose which parts of canon to take seriously at any given moment. My main concern is getting the characters right. Mulder and Scully did change over the years, and I try to be true to that more than any specific moment in canon. I'll mentally set a story in a general time, like "sort of in season four" or "post cancer" or "right around 'Chinga,'" more to set the tone of the Mulder/Scully relationship than anything.
I still have a lot of unfinished stories sitting around, and I get them out and stare at them and either change a word or two and then close them again, or suddenly find myself adding entire paragraphs and plotting out new scenes for them. I'd been staring lovingly at the beginning of that bodyswap for years, and one day I just snapped and decided to finish it. I never throw anything away and XF's going to be with me for a long time.