The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Nancy Lorenz

Interviews by Fans
Title:	The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Nancy Lorenz
Interviewer:	The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive
Interviewee:	Nancy Lorenz
Date(s):	February 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 Nancy Lorenz was conducted in 2001.

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My first fan fic was Star Trek, The Next Generation. Embarrassingly enough, I was head over heels in love with both Wil Wheaton and Wesley Crusher. My Mary-Sue was Eleanor Ruddesford, broadsword weilding kick ass bitch from the Farragut, with lots of loathing towards Top-Brass Starfleet life. Thing is, she didn't start out like that, and she was so - well - ick! Nice, flirty, Wesley instantly liked her. She was pretty lame, but I stuck with the whole concept of Wesley going to the Academy, and I'm still writing them today (on and off). I should have the series finished when I'm about - oh - fifty. The reason why I started doing fan fiction was because I missed Wesley so badly, and I thought he deserved to have his tale told. I didn't think they did him enough justice, and saw a lot of potential for fun in this character that they dropped like a hot potato. Star Trek wasn't as much fun for me after that. It lost it's youth, it's vivacity.

After Star Trek came Xena, in which I made quite a name for myself. I was a Gabrielle/Joxer fan, which - well it doesn't have an equivalent really in the X-Men Movieverse. The main pairing everyone followed was Xena and Gabrielle. I found it trite and hamfisted, and I enjoyed the chemistry and subtleties of Gabrielle and Joxer much more. Plus, a male/female pairing had a lot more of a draw for me, because well - I'm pretty much straight (from what I can tell, but you never know). I was shunned, nobody really read my stories except other Gabrielle/Joxer romantics. I used to be really bitter about that, but I figure hey - you do what you do because you love it, right? Right. So - I have a great big backlog of lovely Xena stories if anyone wants to read them. They're not as good as the X-Men ones I think, cause my skills have really come into their element with the X-Men genre. I also am writing a couple of novels that have nothing to do with any fandom. For some reason, I'm only ever able to write about the supernatural. I love the supernatural, and the stories - one is a dramatic/romantic/spooky/coming-of-age tale, and the other one is a parody/jokey story that I haven't fleshed out yet. The first one is called "Kaitlin", and it's about this young guy living in Fremantle (near where I live) who does music in his spare time, but never plays it to anyone except his flat mate Angie. Angie is obsessed with Jeff Buckley, dates awful men, and is an eccentric weirdo (Pretty much me I guess). Every time the guy (Cameron) drives to work (he's works at a fruit juice bar in Perth), a strange apparition appears in the passenger seat of his car. Every day he drives past Karakatta Cemetery (A real cemetery in perth) she appears, and they talk for a little bit each day. It goes on, with stuff happening to Angie and Cameron, tempers flaring, trouble hit, etc etc, and in the end well - when I finish writing it you can read it then :) Maybe I can get it sold or something.

[writing smut]: Man - these questions are reading my mind. Yes it is. Very hard. I usually go about it with some form of relationship facet in mind. Like - there's a *reason* why they're doing the sex, and it's not just because their getting themselves off. With Small Mercies, the sex really flowed (pardon that terrible pun) when I figured that Rogue was so relieved to feel touch again, that all she wanted was to feel it more, and for Logan, he had the chance he always wanted, and all he could do was feel and adore and love Rogue. Remy and Jubes kissing scenes are never hard. It's just the actual *sex* part I have trouble describing. It's really hard sitting there thinking "Okay - what am I gonna call Logan's prick now? Thrumming member just doesn't cut it this time!!!"

Usually I try to get some importance into the sex scene, try to get it 'meaning' something. I can never do out and out sex either. I just can't grab two indiscriminate pairs (Logan/Gambit) and make them have sex. I need to love the two characters involved, feel like they're a part of me, and understand their love for eachother intimately.

All I can say Melanie is understand what's going on in each character's head while the sex is going on. The sexiest thing is what the character is feeling during the sex, in my mind.