Silvermoon Interview with Kenya Starflight
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| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Silvermoon Interview with Kenya Starflight |
| Interviewer: | Helen Vader |
| Interviewee: | Kenya Starflight |
| Date(s): | early 2000s |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Star Wars |
| External Links: | "interview was here". Archived from the original on 2008-02-17. |
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Kenya Starflight was interviewed for Silvermoon.
See Silvermoon Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
Why did you choose your pen name?
I wrote a fan fic years ago telling the entire Star Wars saga from the point of view of a young stormtrooper named Kenya Starflight (don't ask me why I called him that – it just sounded cool). Pretty soon I used that as my chat name and later as my pen name. It's been an adventure in itself – I met a man in a chat room who turned out to actually be from Kenya, and he loved my name. We're now good e-mail penpals.
When did you start writing fanfiction?
I've been making up "fan fiction" almost since I could read. Crossovers were a favorite, though I didn't call them that then. I would make up stories where the Mario Brothers met Clifford the Big Red Dog and had to go save the My Little Ponies from the evil Skeletor, then go to the planet of Tattoine to have dinner with the Power Rangers afterward. You know, that kind of stuff. I didn't get serious about it until I found and read some internet fan fic. It seemed like great stuff, so I wrote my first fan fic, a 250 page novel about Darth Vader being reincarnated as a clone – but a woman clone! "Fall to Madness" was next in line.
Would you agree that fanfiction is a genre dominated by women, and if so, why do you think it's so?
I wouldn't say it's dominated by women. I've seen plenty of male fan fics. At least, I assume they're male. On the Internet it's hard to distinguish.
Are you a woman?
No, I just stuff two grapefruits down my shirt and wear a wig when I go out in public.
This is a site devoted to antagonists. Could you reveal us your favourite Mr. Bad Guy?
The Big V himself! (Imperial March and heavy breathing in the background...)