How Will It End? Interview with Donna Honeycutt
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| Title: | How Will It End? Interview with Donna Honeycutt (later renamed How Will It End? Interview with donnah) |
| Interviewer: | How Will It End? |
| Interviewee: | Donna Honeycutt aka donnah |
| Date(s): | 2001 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | The X-Files |
| External Links: | How Will It End? Interview with Donna Honeycutt / How Will It End? Interview with donnah (archive links) |
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Donna Honeycutt (later known as donnah) 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
When did you start writing XF fanfic? How did you start?
I started awhile before I posted. After some unexpected surgery, I starting writing as therapy and enjoyed it, but had no idea that I wasn't alone out there - I'd never read any fanfic or even heard of the phenomena. When I returned to work, I brought some with me to fiddle with during lunch. A friend picked it up (she swears by accident) and read it. I was truly mortified, but she loved it and begged for more. So for several months I had one fan/reader. Then an ad for "Missing Voices" showed up on my computer and I clicked on it. I was hooked instantly and after emailing with Miki for awhile, finally posted a couple of things to Gossamer. The rest is history....
You are an extremely prolific writer. What are your favourite classification of story to write? Vignettes, post-eps, casefiles?
My main thing is MSR/angst, and now AU. Nobody can suffer like Mulder, the poor thing, and I love to read it and write it. I've done a few post-eps and enjoyed it. I don't do many casefiles, I'm more interested in the interplay between M/S and tend to wander away from the case.
Where do you find the time?
The time?? LOL - ask my husband, laundry not done, beds not made, dishes in the sink, what's a vacuum cleaner? But he has been completely supportive and wants me to go into writing in a more lucritive way and soon!
Has the series ending affected the way or what you write?
It's given me a drop in inspiration in one way and oh god, do I miss it, but I'm reading more and that has given me ideas, off on a tangent from something that comes to mind as I read.
Is there's anything else you'd like to tell readers out there?
Yes, pressing the send button was probably one of the scariest things I ever did - and one that has brought me more joy, stroking and friends than anything else I've ever done. If I can do it, they can too!