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The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with D'Alaire
| Interviews by Fans | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with D'Alaire |
| Interviewer: | The Best of Trek Fanfic |
| Interviewee: | D'Alaire |
| Date(s): | April 2001 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: VOY |
| External Links: | An Interview with D'Alaire, Archived version |
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The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with D'Alaire was conducted in 2001.
It is part of a series of nineteen interviews, see The Best of Trek Fanfic.
Excerpts
[What is your favorite series to watch? To write for?]: Voyager's what caught my heart and mind straight off, and it's the one whose characters inspire me to spend countless hours at a keyboard. I'm not sure sometimes if it's because of the delicious little tidbits the show's brought up but never finished, or if it's because the characters just struck my mind just right--probably both. But somehow, even when I wasn't enjoying the show as much as I should have as a regular viewer, I've never missed a week, and have always taken at least something away from every ep. Even if I don't write a lot of it down, that ensemble, those characters and their usual expressiveness, always leave me thinking beyond the episode, beyond the lines. That says a lot in my book.
[What type of fanfic do you like to write?]: I'm pretty staunch on my preference for P/T, and prefer alternate universes to any other kind of fanfic genre. I like to read the canon-based fanfic, but I'm always happier when I'm twisting reality. If I can find another epic poem to mutilate, I'd love to do that again, too.
[How did you get started writing fanfic?]: Killing Game II--and out of pure frustration. (snicker) In short, it was the "gum-cracking, baby-doll" scene (following the rich, beautiful portraits of Bobby and Brigitte) that made Tom look like such a dork, and made me so livid, I sat down at my brand new PC and started writing "Irremission" during the repeat weeks that followed. I purposefully gave T&B everything I thought they might deserve and some of what I'd imagined before but never thought to write. It was a release mechanism.I thought I had it pretty aired out, but then "Vis-a-Vis" aired, and I went off the deep end. LOL! I added to and picked at it for a few more months because of that episode alone.
I never thought too seriously about sharing it, though, until someone challenged me into letting him post it. But I was already hooked. (grin)