Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with Carolyn B. Schnall

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Title:	Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with Carolyn B. Schnall
Interviewer:
Interviewee:	Carolyn B. Schnall
Date(s):	2000 or 2001
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
External Links:	full interview is here, Archived version
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In 2000 or 2001, Carolyn B. Schnall was interviewed for Lois & Clark Nfic Archive.

See that site for others in this series.

Some Excerpts

Since about the age of ten. I was writing one-page fanfics based on the Man from U.N.C.L.E. before the term "fanfiction" had been coined. I know that dates me but it turns out that I may have been one of the earliest writers in the genre without knowing it! My Master of Arts is in Creative Writing and I also have written some STTNG nfics... I believe my first archive story went up late in 1997 and the first nfic was around the same time, so I probably I began them mid-autumn 1997.

After I finished my 1983 Master's thesis (a Star Warsian type novel) I only wrote a few stories, notably the STTNG nfic (1990) that are carried with my L&C nfics thanks to Joyce/Debby and Anne. It took L&C to end my fanfic drought of eight years (did a ton of writing for work). I might add that L&C and FoLCs have helped me enormously at a time when I really needed to be inspired. My parents were ill, I had to change jobs and my opera company had died. I just find it another form of self-expression where I can tell stories not developed for TV. It is also really wonderful when someone else reads my stuff and likes something in one of my stories.

L&C made me remember some important life issues that I had been too busy to think about before (running an opera company, taking care of sick parents and working more than full-time is like having three careers and no life). Clark reminded me of the man I had been seeking and the teasing relationship between him and Lois is like the marriage I would like to have.