The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Donna Bevan
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Donna Bevan |
| Interviewer: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive |
| Interviewee: | Donna Bevan |
| Date(s): | July 9, 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 Donna Bevan was conducted in 2001.
Other Interviews in the Series
See The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
I've been writing *forever*. I can remember making up stories in my head before I ever learned how to hold a pencil. Then, in second grade, I wrote my first story for Mrs. Ferguson's class. It was a myth, really, written to explain how bullfrogs came into being. LOL I guess that was where it started. I've been writing ever since, for school, work, and personal amusement.My fanfic writing started early, too. I saw "Gone With The Wind" when I was six, like every good Southern girl should, and I despised the ending. So I ranted to my grandmother about how *I* would have written the ending, complete with snippets of dialogue and staging directions. ;) But I really started writing (i.e., *sharing*) fanfic during the second season of the X-Files. There were such wonderful storylines, such complex characters... I wanted to share in it, wanted to be a part of it. So I started writing.
Writing fanfic may be a hobby, but it's often a consuming one; the time and energy fans put into their work... It's almost unreal. Being involved in various fandoms has given me so much satisfaction and entertainment. It's also allowed me to know so many wonderful people. I'm insanely grateful for that, and I always will be.
I've been writing for years. I've done a number of short stories, some *really* horrendous poetry, and a novella or two. I even have ideas for a few screenplays bouncing around in my head, but nothing committed to paper or disk yet. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I've always known that writing is what I want to "do with my life"; now, it's sort of a matter of finding my style and voice, and learning as much as I can. As far as other fandoms, I've posted work in Roswell and X-Files. I also have unfinished or unposted stories in a number of others - Buffy, ST:V, That 70s Show, Dawson's Creek, My So-Called Life, N Sync slash (yes, you read that correctly)... The list goes on. And on... :)
Oh, man. Angst is my thing, totally. It depends on the story I feel I need to tell, of course, but angst seems to come easier for me than anything else. I think it may be because I see stories where people have written foof and humor and smut, and they've done it so much better than I ever could... :) Or maybe it's because I am a cynical creature by nature, and I love the pain. LOLI run in cycles with my fanfic, though. It's almost like I have a relationship with the fandom - in the beginning, everything is rosy and beautiful. The salad days, if you will, and I churn out foof by the dripping buckets. Then the "new" starts to wear off, and that's when I start to delve deeper, when I try to focus on how things might go wrong. That's when the angst starts to flow.
Ask any of my ex-boyfriends. LOL It's just how I operate.