The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Diebin
| Interviews by Fans | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Diebin |
| Interviewer: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive |
| Interviewee: | Diebin |
| Date(s): | March 19, 2001 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Men |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Diebin was conducted in 2001.
Other Interviews in the Series
See The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
I think the first story I clearly remember was typed up on my family's Commodore 64 when I was seven years old. It was about a Squirrel who pretended he was psychic and got himself in trouble with all the other animals in the forest by scamming them and stealing all of their money. *g* Pretty much from that point on I was writing all the time. When I was eleven we got our first copy of Microsoft Works and that sealed my fate.As far as fanfiction goes--I always say that I have three distinct Fanfic phases. Phase One was when I sat around typing up baaaaad stories based on Mercedes Lackey--stories that I'm pretty sure I have finally destroyed all of the disks for. Of course, at that point I didn't know that what I was doing had a name. :) Phase Two was when I joined the Dragonriders of Pern club (when it was quite small, back in 1996 or so) and participated in the RPG. Once again, I didn't know that what I was doing was most likely fanfiction.
Then came the fateful day when I was crusin' the internet at work in June of 1999 and stumbled across a little page that went by the name of Star Wars Chicks. I joined the mailing list within the day, and two days later had started work on my first Official Fanfiction.
A good hundred and then some stories later . . . here I am. :)
I love writing for writing, for the most part. Fanfiction is just an illusion to make me think that my writing is accomplishing something. *g* For some reason, it's much easier for me to rationalize spending two hours writing a story to share with other people than it is to sit around just writing it to sit on my hard drive.And yes, I admit, the feedback is addictive. *smiles* Anyone who says that it isn't is lying, because there's nothing more uplifting than opening your e-mail after a hard day of real life and finding a great letter from someone who thinks you're swell. It never fails to make my day.
As for W/R in particular . . . I love the people. They're friendly, fun, enthusiastic, and prolific. I'm astounded at the size of the WRFA, frankly . . . and am impressed. Keep it up, lovelies!
These days we've got a thriving fandom, last time I checked the WRFA was approaching 600 stories. So now the challenge is to do something new, something that no one else has done before. And unfortunately, I've found this is making me reach for darker and more disturbing stories, maybe because my mind just tends to swing that way. Maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and realize that we need more humour in the fandom. That'd be a nice change, eh?