The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Deep Salt Water
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| Title: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Deep Salt Water |
| Interviewer: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive |
| Interviewee: | Deep Salt Water |
| Date(s): | April 14, 2007 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Men |
| External Links: | the interview is here, Archived version |
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The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Deep Salt Water was conducted in 2007.
Other Interviews in the Series
See The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
I decided to write fan fiction as a way to get my writing going again. It started off as purely a challenge to prove that I still had it in me. That, and I wanted to write a smutty fic about Logan and Veronica (Veronica Mars). I had started reading various fic online, and just found it a wonderful way to let the fans have a go at creating situations with their favourite characters, or even satisfying particular wants. At the time I wrote Skin on Skin, we were only at episode six of Veronica Mars here in Australia, and already I was into Logan/Veronica. And then of course, there’s getting satisfaction out of a pairing like Rogue/Logan which has never happened in the comics, and only seemed to increase with the films. Until X3, but we won’t get into that.
Well, X-Men has been a fandom of mine for about sixteen, seventeen years. It started with comics and the original animated series. About the only incarnation I haven’t particularly had much to do with is Evolution. I’m still a 90s cartoon girl at heart. Rogue and Wolverine were always my favourites, so it wasn’t too much of a stretch of the imagination to pair them together. Of course, there’s a period from my early high school years I’d rather not remember where I was a Romy ‘shipper…
Once in a while I put up a post on my LJ where the first five people to comment get a fic written. They tell me if it’s Rogan, or Ryro and a setting, or a particular thing they want to see happen. I also usually ask for a genre, just so I don’t wind up writing some PWP for someone who would have preferred angst. If I need more info, then I’ll ask for it. There are few occasions I’ll fulfill someone’s specific request with the story already mapped out. Broken was one of the few cases, and it was necessary and important for my friend to have it written a particular way. I haven’t done it for a long time, but I will now that you’ve reminded me! Mind you, I’m usually okay if people just ask me stuff out of the blue. The only time I don’t take requests is in regards to a series. I get that people want to see certain things happen, but I’ve usually got the series mapped out already and want to do it my own selfish way!