Silvermoon Interview with Connor Coyne
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| Title: | Silvermoon Interview with Connor Coyne |
| Interviewer: | Helen Vader |
| Interviewee: | Connor Coyne |
| Date(s): | 2002 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Harry Potter |
| External Links: | "interview was here". Archived from the original on 2008-02-17. |
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Connor Coyne was interviewed for the website Silvermoon.
See Silvermoon Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
Why did you choose your pen name?
My name is Connor Coyne. I either wasn't creative enough to realize I could have chosen a pen name, or I just like my real name enough that I decided to stick with it. From my perspective, I can't really say which. ;-)
Would you agree that fanfiction is a genre dominated by women, and if so, why do you think it's so?
It does seem to be dominated by women. I recall at my high school that more girls wrote creatively then boys, and fanfic community seems to have a large number of 14-19 year-olds. Also, most of the male writers I've encountered in fanfiction are a little bit older. So I think a lot of it connects to the larger question of whether or not women are more engaged in creative writing for men, which I do not know the answer to. Another possibility, though, is that the fanfiction community is a place where someone can be read, and receive positive and critical feedback. Socially, that may not be as available to women as it is to men, through school, friend, and family. Fanfiction, then, might be an alternative source of feedback.
This is a site devoted to antagonists. Could you reveal us your favourite Mr. Bad Guy?
Overall: Macbeth. Both Mr. and Mrs. They start out the play pure and good, but makes the change to evil sooo easily and fluidly, it's haunting. Talk about sexy evil! Ditto for Kurtz in both Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now. Ditto ditto for Carmilla the Vampyere. In Harry Potter: Barty Crouch, Jr. I actually don't care much for most of the HP antagonists, in that, I don't think they're as interesting as the good guys. Crouch is a major exception. Here's a man was intelligent, resourceful, and willing to take exceptional risks for something he believed in, but had no logical reason to wait for. And that performance he put on for the Ministry. *shivers* Scary.