The KSA Archive Interview with Shamenka
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| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | The KSA Archive Interview with Shamenka |
| Interviewer: | Jenn M. |
| Interviewee: | Shamenka |
| Date(s): | January 2000 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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Shamenka was interviewed by Jenn M. in 2000 for The KSA Archive.
Some Excerpts
I've been writing fan fiction, of one sort or another, since I was about 14 or 15. And since I'll be 40 this year, well, 25-26 years, off and on, or there abouts. So, no I don't write exclusively within the bounds of the Herc/Xenaverse. I also write in the Star Trek: Voyager (amongst others) frame work. I started out by writing a truly awful Arthur of the Britons story .. way back when. No doubt that is a show no one else will have heard about or even seen. Feeling my age (and my nationality) here. Arthur had this best friend, a Saxon boy his step father had raised as his own, but I was an innocent 14...Slash was unheard of in my world view then! That came years later...Two years later. I was 16 when I first encountered slash fiction, and have been fairly well hooked ever since. I can even tell you the name of that first slash story, though not the author.
I simply don't write much, if any, het. I think that that is because it's nothing special. Well, I'm a heterosexual woman, if I want het action I drag my husband off to bed for the real thing! Reading about het sex does nothing for me either. Sometimes, though not often, I find myself reading some sex scene and find myself wondering if the writer has ever had sex, in any size shape or form involving another living, breathing, actually participating there person, you know what I mean? Though, I hasten to add, this is not at all common with the Herc/Xenites. We all at least seem to have either hands on experience or the good sense to go read up on the subject! It's the physically impossible positions that get me, either in slash or het. So, I'm a slasher at heart, well, I suppose, in a way, it's like het men and 'girly' vids. Two (or more) girls doing each other will peek their interest two or more guys will do the same for me!
Yes, I want to sell a novel. I want to be able to walk into a book store and think 'Shit! I write that!' Selfish and conceited, maybe, but it's a dream I've had for very many years. Maybe one day, huh? I'm currently working on my latest idea, so maybe this time. I don't let my hopes get too high though, makes it too far to fall when they come crashing down. I know, I know, I'm a coward, but cowards live longer, don't they?