Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with CC Aiken

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Title:	Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with CC Aiken
Interviewer:
Interviewee:	CC Aiken
Date(s):	2004
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
External Links:	full interview is here, Archived version
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In 2004, CC Aiken was interviewed for Lois & Clark Nfic Archive.

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Some Excerpts

I am a lifetime fan of super-anything. Loved Batman and Robin as a child. I was Batgirl for a million Halloweens in a row. I watched the old Superman show as a kid when I was home sick from school. Always loved it. Watched the Super Friends - Superman, Wonder Woman, Aqua Man, etc...- on Saturday morning cartoons, never missed them. The Superman movies, check. The comics, check. L&C, of course. And now, Smallville.

You know, my whole life, though it's only recently that I've come to call it that. I have kept a journal since I could write. I wrote my first "story" story in the second grade. `Sam the Ham.' A little ham (not a pig, mind you, a ham) is horrified to learn he is not the family pet, but is rather their planned-for Sunday supper. (I liked angst even then.) For as long as I can remember my head has been full, sometimes too full, of words, words, words...

Though I can see now that I have been writing it, mentally, for some time. I have always watched TV with an eye towards what I would like the writers to do, and how I might do it differently. I am forever pronouncing, "Now, I would write a slow-build love story for THIS couple..." So, in a way I was a fanfic writer, just didn't know it, as I had no idea what fanfic was. I have to admit, lately I've been giving the `Smallville' fanfic a look. An earlier Clark Kent could be fun...

Most of my writing has been academic. I have my Masters of Divinity from theology school. I wrote worship services, prayers, responsive readings, scripture interpretations. You could give me an occasion- "We're going to be talking about baptism this Sunday"- and I would crank you out a service that had whatever elements you wanted.

This, by the way, is where my love of short, choppy sentences and sentence fragments comes in. I learned- by sitting through a service and hearing one of my beautiful prayers turn into one, long indecipherable murmur- that I needed to put LOTS of breaks in there, so people would breathe.

Also, in recent years, I've written plays for local little theatre. This is where I get my love of dialogue. When you have people up there saying the lines you've written, they have to sound like speech, and not like something on the page. This is a big thing for me. I always want my characters to sound like they are really conversing, not reading what I've put down.