Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with Rain Elizabeth Day

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Title:	Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with Rain Elizabeth Day
Interviewer:
Interviewee:	Rain Elizabeth Day
Date(s):	2001
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
External Links:	interview is here, Archived version
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In 2001, Rain Elizabeth Day was interviewed for the Lois & Clark Nfic Archive.

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Some Excerpts

I'm basically a lapsed FoLC. I used to be on the loiscla list back when Tara was the listmom, and also on Rhen's fanfic list before it folded. I'm only 25 and I feel like a crotchety old grandmother. Back in *my* day... ;)

Some day I will get around to making myself a website (next time I finish a story, which should be sometime around 2005 <g>)

For those with a multi-fandom bent, I can be found most often these days on the scullyfic list, over in X-Files land. I don't write any faster there than I do here. :)

I'm kind of like a Vulcan, except instead of mating every seven years, I write an LnC story every five. Which really is a better deal for me, when you think about it.

As a child I wrote fanfic for lots of books (most notably Enid Blyton's Famous Five series). The most embarrassing fanfic I've ever written is a toss-up between Cabbage Patch Kids and My Little Ponies. <g> Oh, but the amazing original My Little Pony characters I developed! ;) In my defense, I was 8 years old and My Little Ponies were the coolest things ever. I used to write this stuff surreptitiously at school when I was supposed to be doing other stuff. <g>

As a teenager, I wrote a lot of really bad Star Trek fanfic, a lot of it vaguely Mary Sue-ish. Of course, I didn't know it was called "fanfic" and laboured under the delusion that I would be publishing a Star Trek novel some day. Ha ha. <g>

I've written LnC fanfic, of course, and some X-Files stuff. I recently wrote a Harry Potter fic, because it was begging me to put it on paper, but it's not going anywhere but my hard drive, because it's an nfic between Dumbledore and Prof. McGonagall What can I say. I see some serious sexual tension between those two!

I was attracted to writing fanfic because there were characters I loved, and situations I wanted to see them in, and the authors/writers/producers weren't putting them there. So I did. And it felt great! It's an amazing feeling to realize that you can play with the characters all you want. I think the best thing about fanfic in general is that it makes TV truly interactive, and allows you to take control of the process. Instead of passively wishing they'd have an episode about A, you go ahead and put the characters in situation A and see what they do. I love the fact that it gives power back to the viewers, and puts our contemporary cultural myths back in the collective hands of the people instead of in the hands of for-profit organizations. Fanfic is really very subversive, when you think about it. I'm all for sticking it to the man. <g>