The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Djinn
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| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Djinn |
| Interviewer: | The Best of Trek Fanfic |
| Interviewee: | Djinn |
| Date(s): | September 2003 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TOS |
| External Links: | An Interview with Djinn, Archived version |
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The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Djinn was conducted in September 2003.
It is part of a series of nineteen interviews, see The Best of Trek Fanfic.
Excerpts
[Tell us a little bit about yourself. How long have you been a writer?]: When I was a kid, I used to write Space: 1999 stories (didn't know it was fanfic back then) and then I would MST them (only I didn't know about that back then either) because even I knew they were that bad. Once school started, I pretty much only wrote stories to satisfy class requirements. In college, I started to write poetry, and stayed with that for years.
[What is your favorite series to watch? To write for?]: That'd be a tie between the Original Series and the last few seasons of Deep Space Nine. I love to watch Deep Space Nine--it has such wonderfully complex arcs! I probably like writing the Original Series the best. Although, my muse likes to swim in all the ponds. Not so much Enterprise anymore though. The mind meld as AIDS ep pretty much did me in. But I liked the show a lot when it started and have quite a few stories to prove that.
[Have you done any other type of writing?]:I actually started writing X-Files fanfic. And I've done some Buffy and M*A*S*H stories. But the fanfic is a pretty new phenomenon, really only since the end of 1999. I've written some original stories for myself. But for the long spell between college and the first fanfic, I didn't write many stories, focused on poetry. It's only in the last few years that I've done this kind of prolonged writing. And it feels great.
[When you're reading fanfic, what are you looking for?]: I like something different. I like when an author takes risks. I read a lot of fanfic and the ones that stick with me the most are the ones that are sort of odd or different in some way. It needs a strong opening, to keep me going, and a strong ending, to make me happy. And good grammar, minimal to no typos, and spot-on characterizations are all key. I like the story to move me in some way. There are some stories that are technically very good, but seem to lack any real spark or magic. I guess I look for the magic.