The Les Miserables Fan Fiction Index Interview with Lonely Gamine

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Title:	The Les Miserables Fan Fiction Index Interview with Lonely Gamine
Interviewer:	LMFFI/Abby Goutal
Interviewee:	Lonely Gamine
Date(s):	posted 24 February 2001
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Les Misérables
External Links:	an interview with Lonely Gamine interview index
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In February 2001, Les Mis fan writer Lonely Gamine was interviewed for The Les Miserables Fan Fiction Index.

Interview Series

• The Les Miserables Fan Fiction Index Interview with Amy
• The Les Miserables Fan Fiction Index Interview with Arlene C. Harris
• The Les Miserables Fan Fiction Index Interview with Laura Waterstripe/Quiara
• The Les Miserables Fan Fiction Index Interview with Lonely Gamine
• The Les Miserables Fan Fiction Index Interview with Ponine Enjolras/Jenelin
• The Les Miserables Fan Fiction Index Interview with Stefanie
• The Les Miserables Fan Fiction Index Interview with Ursula

Introduction

Meghan, better known as Lonely Gamine, lives and attends school in the West. She is the author of A Test Of Will, The Wanderers, and other fics, as well as the webmistress of One Day More! and Sun and Moon: The Unofficial Rona Figueroa Site.

Some Experts

Q: What got you interested in Les Miz?

A: In 1998 I went to see the Third National Touring Company, being completely new to musical theater at all, but Les Miz especially. It completely blew me away--I don't think I breathed for the entire three hours. About a week afterwards I read the novel, and I was gone. Les Miz really got me into musical theater as a genre, and it's still an incredibly amazing thing to me.

Q: Do you tend to base your stories on the novel, or the musical?
A: Both, really, because the characterizations are so different that some I like and some I don't. For example, I tend to write Eponine like she is in the book--but I always write Marius as the musical writes him--he's unsufferable any other way. :-) It really depends on the mood of the piece, and my mood of course.

Q: What kind of fic do you tend to write the most (humor, romance, vignettes, crossovers...)? Why?
A: Drama, mostly, and slash, but I try not to write all slash because there's only so many angsty pairings of the Amis you can have before they get repetitive. I get a perverted pleasure out of throwing the characters into horrible situations and running with it.

Q: What story have you gotten the most feedback about?
A: "A Test of Will". I got lots of feedback commenting on the originality, but I greatly enjoyed the few I got berating me on my horrible disfigurement of Eponine. I really do adore flames, feel free to send me some.