This interview was done by westwingwolf on NS Forums. I’m just re-posting it here 
You can view this thread on the forums by following this link: http://forums.naughty-seduction.net/showthread.php?t=6710.
Thank you to TheAmazingApe for taking the time to do this interview. I found it very interesting and humorous even if you do love the book that spawned the miniseries that to this day still creeps me out if I’m left alone in a bathroom with the lights off. ~ Mindy
Interview: TheAmazingApe
1) If you could visit any place at any time period, where would you go and what would you do?
That’s actually a tough question that comes with its own barrage of questions. Am I just dropped in in my modern clothing with a lot of explaining to do and depending on the kindness of strangers? Eh, I’ll just pick the early thirties. I’ll join a vaudeville troupe and give early Ethel Merman a run for her money.
2) Have you ever met anyone famous?
Several. But it’s only because I’m a once-in-a-long-while working actress and I used to do extra work. But the most thrilling was a random sighting of Dean Haglund (Langley on The X-files) in a bar. He’s very friendly and funny.
3) If you could meet any famous person, alive or dead, who would it be and what would you say/do?
Bette Midler. We’d meet at a bar and do tequila shots and sing showtunes for hours.
4) If you could switch lives with any person, who would you choose and why? If you want to switch with a person who is dead, we’ll assume that you wanted to live their life while he/she was alive.
Bernadette Peters. I’m a Broadway nut and I’d kind of like to be her for a day. Maybe it’s just about having her hair and all her cool friends.
5) Who is your favorite author, alive or dead, and why?
Stephen King. Not every book he writes is a treasure, but he’s one of those authors I can still pick up and reread and still get chills as if its the first time. I just marvel at how possible he makes it seem and how well fleshed-out his towns and characters are. Also, he’s not a one-note author. I’m always telling my friends the more dramatic works he’s done and they always react with surprise.
6) What is your favorite book and why?
God, why don’t you just ask me which of my children I’d kill (kidding. I don’t kill my children. I don’t have my children yet). I’ll have to say Stephen King’s IT. Once again, mostly for how possible he makes it seem and how much history he puts behind it. Also, horror is just a little scarier through a child’s eyes.
7) Who is your favorite singer, alive or dead, and why?
Judy Garland. Every song she sings seems so deeply felt that I just want to reach through my TV and give her a big hug and tell her everything’s going to be okay, even knowing it won’t. Poor, sweet Judy.
What is your favorite song and why?
Tough. But I’ll go with “Once in a Lifetime” by The Talking Heads. It always gives me chills for some strange reason. I’m not saying it’s Mahler, just that something about it always gives me this feeling of urgency, as if I have to hurry on and get my life to where I want it.
9) What is your favorite movie and why?
If I have to pick one… The BBC’s version of Pride and Prejudice. It’s just very well done and I can throw it on any time and still feel engrossed. It always feels like the first time. I just can’t believe those crazy kids will get together.
10) What is your favorite television show and why?
X-files. Nothing has yet reached X-files level obsession for me. It was just very creepy, yet understated and there was such a wonderful unspoken romance at the heart of it.
11) Who is your favorite actor/actress, alive or dead, and why?
Gotta go with Kathy Bates. I like that she started late and stayed chubby. Judy Dench is another idol of mine.
12) What is the one movie/television show that you would never admit to family, friends, co-workers that you watch? Yes, I know asking defeats the point, but spill your guts anyway.
I don’t have much shame about my shows, really. I have a large collection of Frasier and Wings and The Nanny DVDs and I refuse to be ashamed of them. But my Smallville fixation is often met with scorn.
13) Do people in your Real Life know that you are a member of NS?
Come to think of it, no.
14) Do people in your Real Life know that you read/write fanfiction?
Some of my close friends and family know I write fic and post it on forums. But I don’t give out which. I don’t want them reading it as it’s smutty. Could you imagine my father coming across it? *shudders*
15) When did you first start reading fanfiction?
About six years ago. It was way cheaper than books.
16) When did you first get started in writing fanfiction?
Almost a year ago. I’d written two still unpublished novels, but I just decided to jump in and write something where people would read it.
17) Is fanfic writing just a hobby for you or do you hope to go further with your writing?
I’m still trying to go further, but it’s so hard to write real fic when fanfic is so tantalizing. You have that instant gratification of readers and comments.
18) When you aren’t writing awesome fanfics, what do you do and/or want to be doing?
Preferably, at an audition and nailing it. But this is, as I said, instant gratification. I post and I know at least one reader will love it. It’s more tantalizing than anything, really.
19) How and why did you first get interested in Chlex? What do you like most about the characters? What do you hate about them?
I like that they’re both intelligent and well-read and verbally, able to spar. I never felt any other character was, intelligence-wise, on par with either. And, to me, smart is sexy. I hate that the show had Lex descend into evil with so little screen-time devoted to it. I also hate that Chloe became such a Clark cheerleader, not giving him any shit as in other years. I think they were both served badly by the last season. I also hate that the show never explored Chlex romantically (or even lustfully).
20) How and why did you first get interested in writing Chlex fanfiction?
I’m a Chlarker primarily (as well as a Chlois supporter), but I found it hard to stay away from the naughtiness of Chlex. I read. I liked. I never thought of writing it, really. Then, smack in the middle of a Chlark trilogy, I found myself writing a Chlex scene. It had to do with Chloe using her wiles to ditract him while trying to get information. I found myself loving the writing of it and every word felt dirtysexywrong in the best way. Though it was more of an interlude in that fic, I kept wondering if I should write something even Chlexier. Along comes season 7 and I’m so frustrated with Chloe’s arc that I wonder if she should chuck it all and sleep with Lex. Lo and behold, I wrote Deep In The Bottle.
21) Is there anything while reading Chlex fanfiction that you really like/hate?
I like when it stays true to them and who they are. I mostly like sexy, doomed interludes as it gets me right back to the show and seems believable. I don’t mind Chloe and Lex riding into the sunset happily if there’s enough to make it seem plausible as an obvious departure from canon. I don’t mind Chloe and Lex riding off into the sunset evilly, either. I just still want that bridge to get me there.
I kind of hate when fics make Chloe and Lex band together and talk shit about the other characters because, though I wouldn’t put it past Lex, it takes some of Chloe’s soft heart away. And I think her caring and willingness to believe in people is part of what makes me love her. I think she could descend to that level, but I have to see the journey for me to believe it,
22) What (if any) other fandoms do you read/write for and why?
I used to read lots of X-files. I still read certain fics once in a while. It’s the unspoken Mulder and Scully romance that gets me. They’re devoted to each other, yet the show never let them explore the romance (there’s a precedent to why I’m a Chlarker, obviously). But I also liked to read Scully/Krycek. Though I never thought of them as a romantic pairing, I liked the intensity and heat that a writer could bring to them (and there’s the precedent to my Chlex love).
23) What type of environment do you need to write? For example: extreme quiet, blaring music, subtle background noise, etc.
Usually, extreme quiet. I sometime use certain songs to help me get in gear, whatever fits what I’m about to write. But I write on my laptop, outside, and usually end up smoking more than I should (really want to let go of that last crutch).
24) How do your ideas come to you? Do you always write them or do you let them disappear?
They usually come to me when watching the actual show. They’re “what-ifs” usually. I usually open a new file and type up a bit, then leave it till I can get to it. But they never disappear. The best ones tickle at the back of my mind until I have to write them or die.
25) Do you plan a story from the beginning to end or start with an idea and let the chapters come to you as they do?
I usually have certain moments pre-planned. The ending is, for the most part, there. I just have to get from point a to b, then to c… and so on. But I outline ahead and, when a particular piece of dialogue or a scene sticks in my mind, I write it somewhere towards the end of the file so I remember that it has to be said or done down the line.
26) Do you ever input certain aspects about yourself into the lives of Chloe and Lex? For example: Do you have Chloe listen to your favorite song or have Lex watch your favorite movie?
Not so far in Chlex fics. I did write a Chlark fic where I had Clark constantly reference The Changeling (a truly great ghost movie) and I had Chloe reading T.S. Elliot and Jane Austen and Sylvia Plath. For some reasons, my Chlex ideas don’t take in everyday interests. Both Chloe and Lex are way too intensely focused in them to take a break and read/listen/watch. Maybe that’s because I see them as an intense combination.
27) Do you associate your writing with any songs even if it isn’t a songfic?
I find Garbage gets me in a Chlex mood. Also Nine Inch Nails. Anything dark, angry, and hot.
28) Do you prefer writing easy, quick stories or long, layered stories?
Layered. I don’t think that those short stories are necessarily easy, though. I find them much harder to write than a multi-chapter fic. Any one-offs I’ve written were still very, very long. I’m just not succinct by nature.
29) Which do you find easier to write: dialogue or description or are the equally hard/easy?
I’d say dialogue. Even just thoughts unsaid are easier for me. My descriptions are usually laden with thoughts from whatever character I am writing the POV of. It’s hard to have anyone do anything, for me, without a thorough examination of it. I’m crazy like that.
30) Is there anything that you won’t write or feel uncomfortable writing?
Hmmm. I usually don’t write anything below R. I have a hard time staying away from the sex (a girls got to get her kicks where she can). But, as an adult writer, I’ve never wrote anal sex. To be honest, I don’t find it sexy. I can understand why some people might. With the risk and the pain involved, both parties might have to have a level of trust. But I never found it sexy because, as women don’t have a prostate, there is nothing of value in it for the woman. As I’m a woman, I never want my heroine to do anything I myself don’t like. It’s the sexual equivalent of eating liver and beets for dinner for me.
31) What do you do to cure writer’s block? What advice can you give to new writers who might be scared to post their stories?
I usually have a few going at once. Right now, I have two. If I hit a wall on one, I move to the other. Usually, I find myself able to come back fresh to either after walking away.
If anyone is afraid to post their stories… Don’t be. I have found the fanfic community to be warm and eager and ravenous (especially between seasons).
32) Have you ever read someone else’s fanfic and wished you thought of the idea first?
Oh, many times. Or I’ll read it and wish they’d gone in this or that direction instead and I almost want to beg them for a redux. But I don’t. I have my tastes, they have theirs. I can dig it.
33) Have you ever wanted someone else to write your story idea?
No. Not really. I’m very possessive of my ideas. It’s not that I think I’m the best and no one else can do it like me. But it’s about preference. If someone else took my idea and took it in a direction I didn’t want it to go… then I’d feel sort of sold out, I think. Everything I write is something I’d like to read. My ideas are my babies as sure as the execution of them are. Ain’t nobody else gonna raise my baby.
34) Are reviews vital to keep you writing or will you finish a story even if you aren’t certain people are reading?
The reviews are a definite spur. But, once I start, I’ll finish regardless. The reviews just dictate how FAST I’ll finish. Supply and demand and all that…
35) Have you ever had a review that made you think something about your story that you never thought of before? Has a review ever made you want to make a major change to your story?
Sometimes. But you cant let that happen too often. There are times when a review makes you realize the people want more resolution on something you thought was clear. And it’s good to clear things up (as things are often clearer in my mind than they might be to my readers). But my stories are usually written, like scenes from a movie flashing by fast. I know where it will end up. If more smut is in demand, I’ll oblige (but in my own way, a la dream sequence, even flashback), but you can’t please everyone. In the end, you have to write what you set out to.
36) How badly do you want to write for Smallville or at least rewrite some of the seasons?
Oh, I’d do it for free. In fact, I’d pay them… Not much, mind you. I’m a starving artist.
37) Do you see Chloe and Lex or other Smallville characters in different television shows or movies? Meaning, do you watch a movie like Star Wars and start thinking that Lex is just like Han Solo?
Sometimes. I actually see Chloe, Lex, Clark and Lana in that great classic Some Kind of Wonderful. We have an oblivious, shy boy in love with the prettiest girl in school, who, while not a bad person altogether, is in no way right for him. Then we have his best friend with short, blonde hair who quietly pines and acts like everything’s fine. Then we have a bald bad-ass who takes our young hero under his wing in a way. Luckily. the plucky friend gets the guy. Heh! If only Smallville would turn out like that. But I see Chloe and Lex, as a pair, a bit darker. I see it a bit like Unfaithful. It’s wrong and dirty and hot and naughty. And Chloe is, in a way, cheating on her emotional husband (Clark. Who she’s basically married to without the ceremony or the sex). But who can resist the temptation that is Lex?
38) What do you think AM and MR would say about your fics if they read them? How would you feel if someone from the show did read your writings?
Well, they’re smutty. Always smutty. Again, I’m a girl with no sex life and have to get my jollies where I can. So that colors whether they would even touch my fic as Smallville isn’t soft core and is still, though loosely sometimes, family entertainment. But I think Tom Welling would be embarrassed about his voracious sexual appetite in my Chlark fics. That and the way I rhapsodize about his… everything. I think Kristin Kreuk wouldn’t be particularly offended. I’m mostly kind to Lana, if a little condescending. I think Al and Miles would stay far away (there’s obviously not enough Lana). Allison would… I don’t know. I think she would be mildly uncomfortable. In some interviews, she’s said she wasn’t into being a sex symbol. I think MR might get a kick out it all, actually. He has a twisted sense of humor.
39) If you could have any super power, what would it be and why? Would you use it for good or evil?
Teleportation. I don’t know if it counts as good or evil, but I’d use it for convenience. Appear back in Philly to visit the family, then blink back to California for an audition (without the annoying freeways). Heck, I could start the most lauded delivery service in the world.
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