The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Wildcat
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| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Wildcat |
| Interviewer: | The Best of Trek Fanfic |
| Interviewee: | Wildcat |
| Date(s): | June 2000 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TOS |
| External Links: | An Interview with Wildcat, Archived version |
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The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Wildcat was conducted in 2000.
It is part of a series of nineteen interviews, see The Best of Trek Fanfic.
Excerpts
[What is your favorite episode?]: That's a hard one. To be honest, I enjoy the movies more than I do the episodes, and that's why the majority of my stories are set after the original five-year mission.If I had to pick an episode, however, and I were to pick one that's just all-around good, it would probably be "The City on the Edge of Forever."
If I'm looking for episodes that develop my favorite character, it might be a toss-up between "Journey to Babel" and "The Naked Time," although I'm not certain about that, and if you ask me tomorrow, I might give you a different answer.
There is also a lot of good stuff for Spock in "This Side of Paradise," but I was always too embarrassed when he hung from the tree to completely enjoy that episode. I do love that final scene in the transporter room, however.
[How did you get started writing fanfic?]: For many years, I carried around stories in my head, and I thought that I was the only person in the world who made up these elaborate fantasies involving Spock and the rest of the Enterprise gang. I found the net about four years ago, and almost immediately stumbled across fanfic. Imagine my surprise! One day I told myself "I can do this," and I literally just started typing. There was very little planning involved.
[Do you have any advice for other fanfic authors?]: Write, write, write. If you're stumped or you don't know where to start, just grab a keyboard and start typing. Remember that there's not a right way and a wrong way to do it--as long as you're having fun, that's what matters.