Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with Tank Wilson

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Title:	Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with Tank Wilson
Interviewer:
Interviewee:	Tank Wilson
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, Tank Wilson was interviewed for the Lois & Clark Nfic Archive.

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Some Excerpts

I have copies (somewhere) of stories that I wrote back in 5th grade. I've always been a reader of fiction, and by extention I periodically went through times when I'd write my own. They would be brief flurries of writing followed by extended periods of non-writing. I've always liked thinking up scenes and characters, but the boredom of the physical act of writing kept me from writing a lot. I couldn't type, and writing everything longhand was a real chore.

I discovered L&C fanfic when I first got access to the internet at my workplace back in '98. Later when I got my own computer, I got involved with Zoomway's message boards. I keep telling Wendy Richards it's her fault that I have written all the L&C fic that I have. It was her 30 minute challenges on that board that gave me the push to write something for everyone there. Then I made the mistake of ending one of those little posts with the words; 'to be continued'. Boy, what a mistake that was! The rest, they say, is history.

I wouldn't call my other writing fanfic exactly. I generally used to ape story ideas that were similar to the type of reading that I was doing at the time. When I was reading the Walter Farley books as a youngster, I wrote my own book about a horse. I wrote sports stories, and spy stories (James Bond has been popular for many years). Later in high school, I was hooked on Alister McLean so I wrote several longer spy/action adventure stories. In fact, myself and a good friend used to both write them. We would use each other as characters in our stories and get revenge for anything that happened in the other's story in the next chapter of our own. Since high school I did very little writing till I discovered the L&C archives and fanfic. (over 25 years!)

As a writer it gives you an advantage to use well known, established characters. You don't have to use up a lot of time reintroducing your main characters to your reader evertime you write them. The Lois and Clark/Superman universe is a very rich one which can allow for nearly any type of fiction story. Most folc writer's choose the romance genre of story, but the characters and their world can just as easily encompass genre's from action/adventure to full blown science fiction. It's fun being able to take your story in nearly any direction you want without the worry that it will be looked upon as not applicable to your character's world. Besides, I just happen to be Lois Lane obsessed and have always liked Teri's interpetation of Lois.