The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Ransom
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Ransom |
| Interviewer: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive |
| Interviewee: | Ransom |
| Date(s): | September 2, 2003 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Men |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Ransom was conducted in 2003.
Other Interviews in the Series
See The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
It's such a cliché answer, but it's true: like a lot of other people who write fan fic, I was doing it even as a child, although I didn't call it that. I had a tendency to get completely obsessed with a particular book or television show or movie for a period of time, until something else caught my interest. I spent a lot of time coming up with scenarios in my head for my favorite characters, most of which included me as some sort of sidekick LOL. I always wanted to be the kid who got to tag along with the hero.As for actual fan fiction, I discovered it about four or five years ago, and it was totally by accident. I was clicking through some websites about Buffy the Vampire Slayer (yes, I'm another one of those X-fans who was a BtVS fan), and came across some stories. The first ones I read did not interest me that much, but as I began to visit more sites, I found some good stories that I enjoyed reading. From then on, whenever something interested me, I would automatically look for fan fic about it. I guess when I like characters, I just can't get enough of them.
I don't think much time passed between my discovery of BtVS fanfic and my first attempt to write my own. I think it was probably only a few weeks. None of those stories were ever completed, and they've never seen the light of day. My interest in writing about those characters was very brief, and when I re-read those stories, I can tell that I didn't have the same passion for them that I do for Logan and Rogue.
Works in progress. What a horrible thing to do to your readers. And I've done it twice now.I *thought* that posting would force me to work on them, and instead it's done the opposite. Failed experiment. I've frozen like a deer in the headlights.
The storylines themselves for my two WsIP have not changed, as they are basically done, in terms of the big events. One of my big failings in my early writing was the "hopping from scene to scene" approach I had to writing. I've got all these things that are going to happen, and they need to be strung together. And the stringing is hard.
I've really forced myself to not do that anymore, to write in a linear fashion, to not jump ahead. Which has been difficult, but at least now the stories that are stalled are stalled at a specific point, rather than missing chunks here and there. It's a much more comfortable stall.
The main problem I find with the WsIP is that if I'm away from them too long, it's sometimes hard to get the same voice back. I usually have to go back and read the story up until the point I'm working on, to get the feel for those characters again. Unfortunately, sometimes by the time I'm done doing that, my writing time is over.