The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Victoria P.
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| Title: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Victoria P. |
| Interviewer: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive |
| Interviewee: | Victoria P. |
| Date(s): | June 23, 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 Victoria P. was conducted in 2001.
Other Interviews in the Series
See The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
I think I began writing fan fiction in my head as a child - when I read "Little Women" and Jo didn't marry Laurie. I was scarred by that. That was just *wrong*, so in my head, I had to make it right.
Much later on, a friend and I tried to write a story based on "Interview with a Vampire." Oh, man, that was such a Mary Sue. How embarrassing to think about it now - her name was Jasmine, she was dying, and Louis fell in love with her and offered to vamp her, but she was noble and didn't want to live forever like that, so she said no. ::shudder::
I tried writing Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel fic, but couldn't get the voices down. I've still got an Angel fic I started last summer. Now that I've gotten more secure in my writing abilities, I'm hoping to finish it. It's a comic "La Ronde" type of thing, almost.
Then I saw X-Men: The Movie. Oh good god, I was hooked. Kate Bolin [goddess of fic!] directed me toward "Safety in Numbers" by Elizabeth, and "Distinction" by Molly, and Kielle's movieverse archive at subreality. I was in heaven. Then I was home sick a couple of days last August, and I couldn't get this scene out of my head -- how I thought Logan would come home and what his conversation with Rogue would be. Thus was "Enough for Now" born.
And I haven't looked back.
After writing X-Men stuff, I've been able to finish a few Buffyfics, three of which I think are pretty good. I'm also working on a BtVS/X-Men crossover, but who knows when it'll ever be done. All I can say is, sparks fly between various members of each group.
I've got more stories based on lines in songs that strike me as L/R-ish. I mean, if you look at the list of my fics, more of them are named from songs or lyrics than I care to admit. Now, a lot of those have nothing to do with the song [the title "Scratching at the Eightball" comes from the song "Bad Luck" by Social Distortion - the song has *nothing* to do with the fic, but the line totally fits].
Sometimes I'll see something on television -- "Their Little Game" came from an episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
Sometimes other fic inspires me. Shana's "Prefect Ring of Scars" and Sare's "No Secret at All" gave rise to "Things Change" - I'd been rereading those two fics, and suddenly Rogue had to tell her version of the L/R/S/J story.
"My Time Is Gonna Come" grew out of my distaste for Jean's arrogance in "All of the Animals" by Jane St Clair - it's a hot S/L fic, but I was terribly vexed by Jean. So I had to fix that in my own head.
Reading is also good. I'm slowly working my way through the cliché plots of the romance novel genre. And fairy tales.
Random things people say can get me started. "Inside Me" was written because my betas and I were discussing how much of Rogue would still be Rogue if Logan kept touching her to heal her. And how much was he in love with her, or was he in love with the idea of molding her and turning her into an extension of him?
Do I think Logan's that much of a narcissist? No. But it was a fun idea for a short fic.
Oh, and don't forget dreams. I woke up with the idea of "Soiled Dove" - literally. Woke up and wrote it down so I wouldn't forget it -- "Logan as Bud White, Scott as Ed Exley -- X-Men do LA Confidential."
Alternate universes are much easier, in that you're not confined necessarily to canon in any way except to make the characters recognizable, but they can also be difficult, when it comes to the mutation aspect of things. Either you have to include the mutations as they are, and sort of fudge why no one cares about it, or create a world where mutants were discovered much earlier than the movie timeline; or your have to get rid of them and make the mutation a part of the character's personality: in Soiled Dove, Logan was a boxer, a fighter who was also a covert ops guy. He didn't have claws but he could outfight anyone who came his way. Rogue was untouchable not because of her skin, but because of her father's abuse. Kitty's constantly slipping and sliding. Bobby's cool under pressure, etc.
Since the mutations are really just another metaphor for differences (color, sexual orientation, race, religion etc.), it shouldn't be that hard to work backwards from them, but sometimes it's a real challenge.