Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with Jessi Mounts

Interviews by Fans
Title:	Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with Jessi Mounts
Interviewer:
Interviewee:	Jessi Mounts
Date(s):	2001
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
External Links:	full interview is here; reference link
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In 2001, Jessi Mounts was interviewed for the Lois & Clark Nfic Archive.

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Some Excerpts

[how long I've been a Superman fan]: Since, I don't know, July maybe of 1998. Even once I was an establish fan of Lois and Clark, it took me a while to admit that I, the mature teenager, actually enjoyed Superman. The first day I wore a Superman shirt to school, I though I was making this brave statement. Now I own five of them and a purse to match. I really ought to wear them all in one week sometime and freak everybody out. <g>

I enjoy fanfic for the same reason I enjoy writing in general. I love playing with words until I find just the right combination that makes a story come alive. The difference with fanfic is that I'm motivated to *finish* a story. Unlike with "real" fiction, I know I have people who will read my story and who care whether it's ever finished or not. And if I ever forget, I can always count on FoLCs to ever-so-gently remind me. (I think someone threatened to send bloodhounds after me at one point. <g>)

"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves just as fiercely as if they had never happened before." Which is, I suppose, just a long-winded way of saying there are no new stories, only new angles, but I had to get *some* use out of that Willa Cather I did last year. <g> I think someone, Tank maybe, said that the great thing about Lois and Clark is that there's no end to its possibilities, and I agree with that. With the group we've got, I don't think we'll ever run out of things to write about.