The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with TriplePirouette
| Interviews by Fans | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with TriplePirouette |
| Interviewer: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive |
| Interviewee: | TriplePirouette |
| Date(s): | June 7, 2006 |
| 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 TriplePirouette was conducted in 2006.
Other Interviews in the Series
See The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
I think my first real "fan fiction" was in 6th grade. My science teacher gave us a "fun" assignment: a writing prompt about some kind of science experiment gone wrong in our school, and we had to finish the story. I wrote about 4 pages where Mulder and Scully from "The X-Files" came to our school and helped investigate with our teacher and principal. I still have it around here somewhere.
Right around the same time I started writing quite a few "Mary-Sue" X-Files fics on our family's Brother Word Processor. They're cute, but not quite worthy of publication. EVER. Those slowly evolved into actual fics. My best friend, Melissa, who got me into X-Files, would occasionally print out fan fic for me, but I didn't really know what it was until we got the internet in my house and I found some of the archives. It was then that I realized that I wasn't crazy and that a lot of other people were doing what I was, and publishing!
I wrote a lot, but eventually I started posting with a longer X-Files piece, first under my real name, then when I got some sense into me, under my pen name. Though I haven't written for the X-Files fandom in a few years, it still holds a very sacred place in my heart. I also write for CSI: Vegas and now X-Men.
Several of my close friends know that I write fanfiction: my mother, three or four of my closest friends, and my college roomate. I'm not embarassed by it, and I'd never deny it, however, it's not really something that I advertise.
Well, I'd been writing extensively for X-Files and CSI at the time I discovered X-Men, so writing for a fandom just seemed like a natural extension of my love for the characters. The earliest X-Men that I published was "Generations," and the ones I haven't published that were early didn't really deal with the films or their chemistry- those were just givens in my work. My first X-Men piece, which I haven't posted here but I will post on my site (because while it is L/R, it's also vaguely L/Other) is called "He Wonders" and it is basically an internal dialogue where he wonders about this ghost of a memory of a woman, and how she effects him in the here and now. I guess if I had to characterize it, it would be more of a void... I feel like there's so much more to these characters than we see, and I feel the need to explore that. What happens when Logan outlives his great grandchildren? How does his past really fit in? What would Marie really do for him? X3 especially left a lot of questions for me, and I like to find a way to answer those in my fic.