The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Skybluerae
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| Title: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Skybluerae |
| Interviewer: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive |
| Interviewee: | Skybluerae |
| Date(s): | August 8, 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 Skybluerae was conducted in 2007.
Other Interviews in the Series
See The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
I stumbled across the WRFA via a Harry Potter fan site called 'Leaky Cauldron' in June of '06. There was a message board topic on Leaky re: X-Men 3 and several of the posters were carrying on about the unjust treatment of the Wolverine/Rogue arc in the movie and Rogue's role being painfully small so as to not interfere with the supposed Wolverine/Jean love saga. I thought to myself, "'oh my gosh - lots of other people notice all that mad Wolverine/Rogue chemistry that I love so much, too?!" (yes, plenty of you are thinking DUH! right about now) So I did a google search to see if it was true. Lo and behold, there was WRFA; an entire site dedicated to shipping a pair that I'd shipped since 2000, before I even knew what shipping was! I was so excited that there were others like me (lots of others!) and mad at myself for not waking up and finding this sooner! I read and read and read; all the classics, the prolific writers, the angst, the foof, the smut - I couldn't get enough. However, since it was just after the release of X3, there weren't many post X-3 fics and a lot of the writers had grown silent over the years. I realized that I had something to say about our pair and how things should've gone in the movie. That is how my first fic was inspired; basically a need to salvage my 'ship.
There's no limitation with AU. I enjoy reading and writing canon, but with AU you have more freedom to alter things that might otherwise be too far out for any other 'verse. I find if I'm writing a post X-2 or X-3 fic, I try to strictly follow canon. I don't even like to tweak it a bit. So if I want a Rogue that can touch, it's got to be AU. A Rogue that can fly, AU or Comicverse. A Wolverine that would hook up with a circa X-1 young Rogue and have no regrets, AU. We could only be so lucky if it were canon!!!
The experience of writing continues to surprise me. It makes me so ridiculously happy to write. It is at times therapeutic and emotional and other times it is just fun. I'm a late bloomer to writing. Sure, I had to write in high school, but I was a biology major in college so I left creative writing behind after my freshman year. The only writing I did after college was in a personal journal, but I wrote in it every day. I'm not one of these that wrote stories from the age of 9 up until now. I have always imagined stories though; I realize that as I look back. Being an only child I used to create stories in my head to tell my friends (real and imaginary), my stuffed animals, my parents … since I'm a talker, I would weave elaborate tales that I insisted they listen to. I always had fiction in my mind, but I guess I was what you'd call an oral story teller. I enjoy the creativity of writing the most, being able to take the players wherever you want to go. There is no limit. It's not like in dancing where I'm stuck with what my body will do; my mind can go pretty much anywhere. The only thing I don't like is when the muse leaves me. It happens and I know it's normal, but I don't like it when there isn't some story churning in my mind.