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Inside the Head of Wishes
| Interviews by Fans | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Inside the Head of Wishes |
| Interviewer: | Amy Murphy |
| Interviewee: | Wishes |
| Date(s): | November 2001 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Xena: Warrior Princess |
| External Links: | full interview is here, Archived version |
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Inside the Head of Wishes is a 2001 Xena: Warrior Princess fan interview at Whoosh!.
Series
For others in this series, see Whoosh! Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
I started writing poems and stories in Junior High. However, my first audience for my writing came from the Xena: Warrior Princess fandom. I went to the Xena NetForum as soon as I got online. There I read a fan fiction story and realized that you could actually take characters from a television show and weave them into your own stories. This was soon after Callisto was introduced into the series and I wondered what would happen to Callisto after she had been sent to Tartarus. In order to answer that question, I started writing my first fan fiction story, Fair Trade. I didn't even know that you could write the story in your word processing program and cut and paste it to the Forum. I wrote each chapter in the posting window, posted that chapter, and then began the next. I was receiving feedback on each chapter while I wrote the next one. I thought this was wonderful! I stayed up all night to finish writing and posting Fair Trade, and two or three Forum members stayed up all night with me to read it. So I guess it would be fair to stay I started writing fan fiction for attention!
I wouldn't give up any part of my experience as part of the Xena fandom. Certainly I would write fan fiction. Through writing fan fiction, I met many wonderful people, some of whom have become my closest friends. Through feedback and the pure volume of writing I was doing, I also had a great chance to improve my skills. (No, unlike Xena, I don't have all that many skills.) I hope that anyone reading Fair Trade, the first Xena story I wrote, and Principia, my last Xena story, will think I've become a better writer.
There are many different kinds of fans. Only a few expect stars to be at their beck and call. Fans who think they know stars personally worry me. Of course, in a few cases, I've started to give someone my "you don't know these people, and you will never know these people" talk only to find out this particular fan actually is a personal friend of a featured player on Xena: Warrior Princess.