Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with Judith Williams
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| Title: | Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with Judith Williams |
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| Interviewee: | Judith Williams |
| 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, Judith Williams was interviewed for the Lois & Clark Nfic Archive.
See that site for others in this series.
Some Excerpts
I've never really been a fan of Superman. He's always been just a character in the comics to me. When the strip first appeared in newspapers back in the thirties, I could not yet read, and a `Dutch Uncle' read the `funny papers' to me every Sunday. I don't think I read the strip regularly after I was about 4 and reading on my own. I preferred comics that made me laugh.
Because I have a vision problem and have to print everything to be able to read it with a magnifying glass, which makes rather slow going, I don't read a lot. I would be hard put to name specific stories, but anything that has the name Sheila Harper attached to it would be my top choice. The first Fanfic I ever read was by Zoomway from an old board of her work that I just stumbled across. I spent hours one Saturday night printing and for weeks afterward immersed myself in her delightful stories. I love most of the work done by the TUFS, S5 and S6 writers and always read anything from them when it shows up. There are many recent good writers, but I'll only mention two Nan Smith who always has something intriguing and Judith Tylke, an inventive writer who seems to have gone away, but who I wish would return.
Reading all the different kinds of stories inspired me to give it a try. I wanted to find out how I would stack up and I just wanted to help keep the L&C saga alive.I like to explore what L&C's relationship might have become as they had children, and lived together through the years. I'm also interested in righting some plot wrongs that I really didn't like in the series.
Every now and them I go to the hardware store, picking up one of the many gadgets found there, turning it upside down around or sideways trying to figure out some use for it other than the one that was intended. In the same way, I like to turn L&C sideways or upside down or slightly askew, uncovering different facets of their lives or personalities, shining a light on them that caroms off in a new direction. I try to do this; I don't always succeed...but then who does?
My writing seems to be very visual because I visualize the story before I write it. I will sometimes deliberately not show thoughts because I want the reader to think and make choices about what has happened. Everything is about what the reader sees and how the reader imagines the characters are affected. I want my readers to be active creative participants in my stories.