Octaves of the Heart Interview with Dark Star
| Interviews by Fans | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Octaves of the Heart Interview with Dark Star |
| Interviewer: | Octaves of the Heart |
| Interviewee: | Dark Star |
| Date(s): | 2006? |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Buffyverse |
| External Links: | "online here". Archived from the original on 2007-06-08. (scroll down) |
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Octaves of the Heart Interview with Dark Star is posted at the Buffy website Octaves.
For others in this series, see Octaves of the Heart Interview Series.
Dark Star Said
I hadn't written anything since I was at school - more years ago than I care to remember. I was excited to find fanfiction on the web, but at that time, I could only find fluff stories. I wanted plot, and in the end, in sheer frustration, I started writing my own. This was purely for my own pleasure - I never intended to let anyone else read them. My son persuaded me to make a website, and use it to display my stories. I was horrified! Somebody might read them… But, dragged kicking and screaming into the cyber world, I found that I rather liked it, so here I have stayed.
My love is for Angel. No other character intrigues me the way he does, and I just don't want to write for anyone else. I have developed a fondness for the B/A relationship, and many of my stories now lean heavily in that direction.
Writing is a wonderful way to interact with others. It leaves something of you behind, forever, and a friend of mine once likened it to having a time machine. I rather liked that thought. I'm most fond of my story Love Lies Bleeding, because it's the first story I wrote that showed me that others really liked my work, too. A wonderful feeling that was, I can tell you. For the first time - I belonged here.
Who do I admire in the fandom? Oh, I hate that question. There are so many, and normally I won't say because I don't want to offend anyone. But since it was Chrislee who asked… I'm going to give you some of them. Ducks was the first website I came across, and I still get a thrill when I hear she has written something new. Maquis Leader is my favourite writer. Her work has everything I could want; humour, drama, wonderful characterisation. You never know quite what you're going to get with her stories. Jo/The Librarian is a wonderful classic writer who writes with such depth, she leaves me speechless every time. Gia can make me read AU, and make it believable; quite a feat. Yahtzee sadly doesn't write in the fandom anymore; a terrible loss, in my opinion.