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Thirty Days of Fanfiction: Day One
Jul. 1st, 2011 12:41 pmWell, hey, why not? (Not that I've posted anything in ages. I am writing First Class fanfic, but it keeps developing a plot. And inconsiderate customers keep ringing me up in the middle of sentences.)
1 – How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote for? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?
My first fanfic was X-Men comicverse, posted back in 2000. I discovered fanfiction within weeks of getting online in 1997. I don't actually remember whether I found X-Files or X-Men fanfic first. Somewhere in between looking through episode guides and newsgroups, I discovered that some people wrote down their stories about TV and comic book characters instead of just telling them to themselves in their heads. This was obviously the BEST IDEA EVA.
One way another, X-Files fandom failed to hold my interest, but X-Men comics drew me in more and more. Soon I was lurking on OTL and CFAN's message boards and trying to write stories of my own. I spent three years doing that before I actually posted something, which puts the more recent droughts into perspective. The reason for why that fandom and not any of the others probably boils down to the guy in the icon *g*. It was also a lot easier in those days for me to catch up on comics than it was to catch up on television - I'd barely heard of DVDs and I didn't have easy access to a VCR at university. (Avoiding the common room was my other hobby.) On the other hand, I could go to Minotaur and Comics 'R Us and buy piles and piles of X-Men back issues for relatively little money.
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1 – How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote for? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?
My first fanfic was X-Men comicverse, posted back in 2000. I discovered fanfiction within weeks of getting online in 1997. I don't actually remember whether I found X-Files or X-Men fanfic first. Somewhere in between looking through episode guides and newsgroups, I discovered that some people wrote down their stories about TV and comic book characters instead of just telling them to themselves in their heads. This was obviously the BEST IDEA EVA.
One way another, X-Files fandom failed to hold my interest, but X-Men comics drew me in more and more. Soon I was lurking on OTL and CFAN's message boards and trying to write stories of my own. I spent three years doing that before I actually posted something, which puts the more recent droughts into perspective. The reason for why that fandom and not any of the others probably boils down to the guy in the icon *g*. It was also a lot easier in those days for me to catch up on comics than it was to catch up on television - I'd barely heard of DVDs and I didn't have easy access to a VCR at university. (Avoiding the common room was my other hobby.) On the other hand, I could go to Minotaur and Comics 'R Us and buy piles and piles of X-Men back issues for relatively little money.
( The rest of the questions ... )