Inside the Head of Brigid Doyle

Interviews by Fans
Title:	Inside the Head of Brigid Doyle
Interviewer:	Amy Murphy
Interviewee:	Brigid Doyle
Date(s):	January 2004
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Xena: Warrior Princess
External Links:	full interview is here, Archived version
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Inside the Head of Brigid Doyle is a 2004 Xena: Warrior Princess fan interview at Whoosh!.

Series

For others in this series, see Whoosh! Interview Series.

Some Excerpts

I started writing when I was in third grade. I loved to put words together to form pictures and I used to make up stories in my head all the time. My mom read to me from the time I was a toddler and from that I just started making up my own stories and actually seeing them come to life. At three I had an entire story about a zoo that existed in the stairwell of our apartment and I would tell it to anyone willing to listen. It lasted until a friend of my dad's told me one of the lions escaped, after that I moved on to pirates that lived in the attic and an entire tribe of Indians that lived under my bed. But I put pen to paper when I was eight and impressed my third grade teacher who inspired me to be creative. By the time I was a teeny-bopped, I was penning the beginnings of fan fiction for my favorite show at the time, Here Come the Brides. I actually still have all the hand written copies on school tablet paper. It really ate up time in study hall.

[Xena] helped me to see that it's okay to be strong and stand up for yourself. It also helped to teach me that in doing so you needn't be harsh or cruel to others. It taught me that I have many friends who care deeply about me and that I care about them in return. It brought me from a darkness I had surrounded myself in to a light I don't think I ever believed existed. I learned to take a chance. I learned to risk and to take a leap of faith. I learned that my faith had never really left me, but only stood back waiting for my return. It touched me deeply in ways I have no words to describe.

Hated [the show's ending], yep hated it 100%. I watched for six years and never cried once until that gawdawful ending! What in Tartarus were they thinking?!?!?? Killing her??? Leaving only one to go on, leaving so much unfinished and unsolved. The episode itself was powerful and well done, the acting superb, but the story line was dreadful. It left me with a feeling of all that…all they survived…for this????? BUT in my little writer's mind the wheels have turned and devised a new ending, a better ending…a peaceful ending…do I feel a story coming on?