Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with The Pelican
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Lois & Clark Nfic Archive Interview with The Pelican |
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| Interviewee: | The Pelican |
| Date(s): | 2003 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman |
| External Links: | Lois & Clark, Archived version |
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The Pelican was interviewed for the Lois & Clark Nfic Archive.
See that site for others in this series.
The introduction:
This week's interviewee is a relative newbie to fanfic reading, but she has very quickly endeared herself to writers, especially those posting in installments on the message boards, by her detailed and thoughtful comments on fanfic. She's not only enthusiastic; she also makes very helpful suggestions and her posts are valued highly by writers.
Some Excerpts
When did you first discover fanfic? A little over a year ago, actually. Yeah, I know, I'm an idiot who didn't look into it a long time ago. But to be honest, it never even crossed my mind that there might be something such as fanfic out there. I thought I was the only lunatic who continued to re-write movies that I thought had more potential or even TV shows, for that matter. <g> Discovering that I was not the only one doing this was a huge relief, and I never would've imagined it could be this much *fun* discussing stories with other people like me. Checking for new fanfic is the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing I do before going to bed.
What's the very first fanfic you read? Do you remember what your first thoughts were about the concept of fanfiction?When I first came across lcfanfic.com, I didn't know what I was missing. Over and over again, I dismissed the site with a distinctive snort and a, "Yeah, right, like this could be any good".
But then, after reading so many comments on stories, every one of them saying how good they were, I decided to give it a shot. With a sigh, I opened up the file someone had recommended, and began to read. I started out by skimming, but when I reached the middle of the first page, I found myself surprised over how intriguing it was. So I sat up straighter and began to read from the beginning, not wanting to miss a single word.
When I was finished several hours later, all I could say was, "Wow.", and I dug up every story done by the same author, and I stayed up the entire night and long into the morning. I remember that I had been reading for about 16, maybe 17 hours before I went to sleep - and from there it was no turning back: I was hooked!
The author was Erin Klingler, and the story was "When You Needed Me Most". I'm still in awe of that woman!
Can you choose one, possibly two, stories you'd consider personal favourites, and tell us what you like about them?Erin Klingler's "When You Needed Me Most" will always be very special to me, not only because it was the first fanfic I ever read, but for some reason I never tire of it. I can read it again and again any time of the day, even though I always have to pull myself together afterwards because of the labour pains described in the story. <g> If I someday get pregnant, I'll have to try hard not to read it for whole nine months. ;)
And after reading "What It Means To Love You", also written by Erin, I was inspired to start writing again, which I hadn't done seriously in a few years. I don't know what exactly happened, but suddenly I had written about 45 pages within five days, which resulted that I started to attend creative writing classes again.
And I have to mention LabRat's "Masques". From the time I was four years old and screamed my head off when I first saw Santa Clause, the nightmares I had about vampires at seven, the fence pole that cut through my throat in second grade, or the fear of my old neighbour making good on his threat to slice me up as well as my football if he ever caught me playing in the back yard again - believe me, they were *nothing* compared to what this story makes you feel. The angst, panic, terror, fear, whams - personally, I think this is one of the best stories in the archive!