Sandra McDonald
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| Name: | Sandra McDonald |
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| Type: | writer |
| Fandoms: | Highlander, Emergency!, The Sentinel, Planet of the Apes, The Magnificent Seven, others |
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| URL: | her personal website | 1999 verion of the homepage her Sentinel fiction her Highlander fiction her Emergency! fiction |
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Sandra McDonald is a prolific gen fan fiction writer, and a contributor to Fanfic Symposium with the essay: Why I Hate 1/??. Sandra is also a professional fiction writer.
One story, Florence Ellison, won a Burton Award.
Fan Comments
Sandra McDonald was long ago dubbed the goddess of Highlander fanfiction; her 'Tough Guy' is widely regarded as fan canon. Sandra is very strong on plotting, and it's safe to say she has a particular affinity for the first season 'family' of Duncan, Tessa and Richie, but her corpus defies categorization: it ranges from hurt/comfort to 4th-wall-breaking comedy to science fiction to end-of-the-world end-of-the-Game scenarios. While working to become a professional television writer, Sandra continues to dabble in fanfiction, saying "I love writing, I hate writing, writing is my life, it is my passion, I write because I have to, and Highlander is just a universe that won't stop talking to me. [1]
Sandra is pretty well-known in fannish circles so there are probably very few of you surprised to find her listed here as one of my favorite authors. Her stories tend to focus on Richie and Methos, with more of an emphasis on Richie, I would say...although Methos does get to take center stage in a number of her stories. She's also written several stories which highlight Connor and Duncan is not ignored in her work, either. Sandra's greatest talent lies in description and setting a scene. Her scenes in foreign locales are brilliantly written and atmospheric, really giving you a sense of the time and place where the characters find themselves. Methos fans won't want to miss her World War II trilogy. All of Sandra's stories are suitable for general audiences. [2]
Works
References
- ^ Highlander Fanfiction, accessed 2.24.2011
- ^ from Links to Some Fantastic Fan Fiction Writers