Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with Sarah Luddy
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| Title: | Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with Sarah Luddy |
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| Interviewee: | Sarah Luddy |
| Date(s): | 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 2001, Sarah Luddy was interviewed for the Lois & Clark Nfic Archive.
See that site for others in this series.
Some Excerpts
Well, I've written off-and-on since about the time I first learned how. I used to have these stories in which there would be three pages about the heroine getting dressed in a certain outfit (described down to the last detail, of course). Quite boring. :) My friend Jenny and I would write stories and trade and critique them. My mother, however, says I've been storytelling since I could talk, and she just wishes she wrote my stories down. I used to play dolls all the time and narrate these long convoluted stories, mostly involving orphans finding homes (a topic that apparently fascinated me, despite my having two happily-married parents). I'd even make up stories for my brother's G.I. Joes or for our run-around-the-yard-shooting-each-other-with-toy-guns games, much to his despair. In action stories I was always fascinated with acting out the villain's daughter. Only over the last two or three years, though, have I been writing regularly.
With longer stories, I tend to lean towards Elseworlds. You know how when kids have a paper to write, they like choosing a really unusual topic just so that nobody else will choose it, because they figure they have a better chance of looking good and getting a good grade if nobody else has written something similar to compare it to? Well, I think my writing is kinda like that. I want to write a story that hasn't been told, something different and unusual, because I don't want to be compared to anybody else and come up short. *grin*
I think I always liked to have some guidelines, someplace to start a story. I enjoy writing semi-fantasy stories, and Lois and Clark's universe is great because it gives us a chance to write romance, adventure, and fantasy - without having to make up our own fantasy worlds to write about. I have to say, though, the first thing that led me to think I could write a story was randomly reading stories on the archives and coming across one that made me think, I could write as well as this. Reading the Kerth winners had exactly the opposite effect, of course.