The KSA Archive Interview with Candace
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| Interviews by Fans | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The KSA Archive Interview with Candace |
| Interviewer: | Narcissus |
| Interviewee: | Candace |
| Date(s): | January 2000 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Candace was interviewed by Narcissus in 2000 for The KSA Archive.
Some Excerpts
When I was an adolescent I wrote some slash with my best friend. We'd pass it back and forth, each writing a chapter, banging it out on old typewriters. I did a bit of copy writing at a graphic design firm and I write all the correspondence for the president of my company, but until I had the computer it just wasn't a practical hobby for me.
There are two Science Fiction writers that I met while playing an online video game; we beta each others' work, and we're all very different from each other which makes it interesting. KSA is the closest thing I have to a formal group, though. I have one beta who I share stories with at the beginning to brainstorm and then at the end to make sure it all makes sense and look for errors.
Writing for a list is very different from writing with the intent to publish or just writing for yourself. Somewhere in the back of your mind you know that other people are out there reading your work, and it's very tempting to gear the stories to please others rather than just telling your story. I've used the characters Castor and Pollux more than I would have otherwise simply because readers let me know they found them interesting. The desire to please can become problematic, though, and have me questioning myself and what I'm writing, and I get a little stuck sometimes because of it.
The only other fandom I care for is Batman. There are other shows that I do watch, like X-files and Star Trek, but I don't really see the slash in them. I haven't been inspired to write for any others. I think about writing in Gotham and the filthy urbanness of it turns me off, plus there are such limited pairings to explore. I'd rather send my brain to Olympus.