fan fic meme
Fan fic meme snagged from fiwen1010
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?
I'm not entirely sure how I got into writing fanfic, I sort of drifted into it. I'd been trying to write original fiction pretty much since I could write. The earliest stuff when I wasn't even a teen was pretty much a Dickensian style world populated by talking cats in full Victorian dress. The later stuff tended toward being very low magic Napoleonic-esque (think Sharpe) fantasy setting.
I started reading fan fic, mainly Highlander TV series before I wrote any fic. I tried writing a bit of Duncan/Methos fic, but it never got any further than a few disconnected scenes scribbled in a notebook. It was never posted anywhere, and if I went back and read it I would probably find it to be utter drivel, but then it was about 14/15 years ago.
It wasn't until I saw Torchwood that I really started to write fan fic, and actively participated in the fandom side of things, fic, art, writing challenges, icon making, fandom meet ups, even running my own comms.
I suppose the thing that drew me to these series is that they caught my imagination, they provided these whole great wonderful worlds full of possibilities, the incredible and fantastic being there and hidden along side the mundane.
It was the timing too, Highlander was as I first got access to the net at college and a whole new world was opening up to me. And Torchwood was when, well a lot of stuff was going on. But honestly it was Ianto's rant at the team/Jack about how they didn't notice him and that he had clear up all their mess that really got my attention. Stuff at work (the dept I was in rather than the whole company) wasn't going great, they'd just given my husband the sack for too many sick days, the supervisor had gone, the remaining staff wouldn't take any responsibility for organising anything, even their own workload, and we were getting all kinds of hassle from outside our dept to try to get us to work harder, which was making the remaining staff quit. So I was running round trying to pick up the slack, usually working about an extra 10 hours a week to do so with no thanks. In the end I had my own shouting match at the management in the middle of the office about the state of things - so I guess I kind of empathised.
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?
I'm not entirely sure how I got into writing fanfic, I sort of drifted into it. I'd been trying to write original fiction pretty much since I could write. The earliest stuff when I wasn't even a teen was pretty much a Dickensian style world populated by talking cats in full Victorian dress. The later stuff tended toward being very low magic Napoleonic-esque (think Sharpe) fantasy setting.
I started reading fan fic, mainly Highlander TV series before I wrote any fic. I tried writing a bit of Duncan/Methos fic, but it never got any further than a few disconnected scenes scribbled in a notebook. It was never posted anywhere, and if I went back and read it I would probably find it to be utter drivel, but then it was about 14/15 years ago.
It wasn't until I saw Torchwood that I really started to write fan fic, and actively participated in the fandom side of things, fic, art, writing challenges, icon making, fandom meet ups, even running my own comms.
I suppose the thing that drew me to these series is that they caught my imagination, they provided these whole great wonderful worlds full of possibilities, the incredible and fantastic being there and hidden along side the mundane.
It was the timing too, Highlander was as I first got access to the net at college and a whole new world was opening up to me. And Torchwood was when, well a lot of stuff was going on. But honestly it was Ianto's rant at the team/Jack about how they didn't notice him and that he had clear up all their mess that really got my attention. Stuff at work (the dept I was in rather than the whole company) wasn't going great, they'd just given my husband the sack for too many sick days, the supervisor had gone, the remaining staff wouldn't take any responsibility for organising anything, even their own workload, and we were getting all kinds of hassle from outside our dept to try to get us to work harder, which was making the remaining staff quit. So I was running round trying to pick up the slack, usually working about an extra 10 hours a week to do so with no thanks. In the end I had my own shouting match at the management in the middle of the office about the state of things - so I guess I kind of empathised.