Inside the Head of Ah-Ladis
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| Interviews by Fans | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Inside the Head of Ah-Ladis |
| Interviewer: | Amy Murphy |
| Interviewee: | Ah-Ladis |
| Date(s): | February 2, 2002 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Xena: Warrior Princess |
| External Links: | full interview is here, Archived version |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Inside the Head of Ah-Ladis is a 2002 Xena: Warrior Princess fan interview at Whoosh!.
Series
For others in this series, see Whoosh! Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
As far as writing fan fiction goes, I stumbled upon it quite by accident! I was searching online for a Xena website and came across Obsession. Obviously, with a website name like that, how could I resist? When I saw that it was a site to post fan fiction, I thought: "Fan fiction? What the heck is that?" The idea seemed strange to me. Why would anyone want to make up stories based on already established TV characters?After reading them [fan fiction], I soon realized that the possibilities were endless! One could make Xena and Gabrielle say anything you wanted them to say, put them in any situation. Spurned on by the stories I'd read, I made up my first Xena fiction and nervously sent in Part 1 to 'Obsession'. I felt that if nobody liked it I wouldn't have to finish.
About 2 weeks later "Obsession" posted Part 1 of "Make A Wish". All of a sudden, I started getting emails telling me in varying degrees to FINISH it! That was so exciting, and after almost 3 years of getting fan mail, it's still exciting and wonderful for me.
The inspiration I got initially from the show waned about 2 years ago. I hated the direction -- if you can call it a direction -- the show was taking. The obvious negative change in the relationship turned me off to the show completely, so I stopped wanting to write Xena stories.
It was hard to believe that it would end. I knew Xena had to be killed off in some way, though she had been killed and brought back so many times. I wondered how the writers on the show would handle it. But, they killed her off -- not in a well thought out way in my opinion, but they did it so that she'd stay dead. I wish that it had been a better storyline. The whole thing felt awfully rushed to me.