Meg Wright

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Meg Wright was a UK Star Trek and Professionals fanwriter.

Much of her fiction is here.

Self-Description: 1982

How do I get ideas? So many different ways I can’t possibly list them all. Sometimes I visualise just one tiny moment and then have to find out what was going on and why, sometimes I start with a setting and decide what will fit into it; and often a casual remark from someone in general conversation sends me scrabbling for my notebook.

As New Wine grew out of the fact that I was tired of Spock always being the one who had to cover his ears - simple as that. Hoops of Steel I wrote because Spock at the beginning of the movie hurt so badly I had to make sure he wasn't going to go away again. 'The Tribe of Jen-Wae? Well, would you believe I wrote the scene on page 37 first of all, though in a slightly different form? That's what I mean about having to find but what was going on.

As for judging my own writing, I find it quite impossible. I'm always willing to listen to criticism, but I do write primarily for my own enjoyment so I won't write things I don't enjoy - like death stories. I'll agree, a few are beautiful, even though many are horrid, but all of them hurt me, and and I 'feel' everything I write. I'm a little nervous I might accident ally bump myself off if I'm not careful.'

I love the way Trek bridges age barriers, I find that wonderful. I've made new friends of all ages from eight to eighty at cons.

Lastly, if you ever want a good laugh, button-hole one of my daughters at a convention and get them to tell you all about the eighteen month ban their unfeeling mother imposed on a certain new science-fiction programme.

Fan Comments

1990

I am mostly interested in the relationship between the characters, and especially the triumvirate. There is so much to say about them. That is what makes the original Star Trek so special and so dear to us. No other science fiction, not even TNG, reach such a depth of perfection, due in a large part to the actors. So naturally I prefer zines with deal with this relationship with a touch of adventure and suspense, of course. For that reason [one of] my favourite authors is Meg Wright.

I like her style, her choice of vocabulary, and the way she describes the interaction of our heroes. I love As New Wine and With Hoops of Steel. I am reading just now her short stories in Reprint II, which I bought from Lynette Muir at Frontiers. They are wonderful.

Back to the subject of Doyle's first kill (again?): the best treatment of the topic that I ever came across was "First Person -Singular" by Meg Wright. Very good indeed, for a straight story; I highly recommend it.

Sample Fiction

• Leila (1978)
• A Man Will Tell His Bartender (1980)

Zine Contributions

Pros

• The Small Print

Star Trek

• Alnitah
• As New Wine
• Captain's Log
• Closer Than a Brother
• Communicator
• Enterprise Log Entries
• Enterprise - Personal Log
• Federation Outpost
• The Female of the Species is More Deadly Than the Male
• IDIC Newsletter
• Log
• Orbit 30
• Reprint
• STAG Con Zine
• Star Trek Action Group Newsletter
• The Tribe of Jen-Wae
• With Hoops of Steel
• Zenith
• Zenith Collect