{meta} Oh Femslash, how I love thee...

[ariestess]

I've been writing femslash since 1995. Early June of 1995, if memory serves correctly. It may have been earlier than that, but I don't think so. I know that the vast majority of my first femslash story, Keep It Precious, was written after Memorial Day 1995, because that was when my first ex-gf decided to completely psychotic on me and break up

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[shaych_03]

mine start oh, around nineth grade when i started working on my first original fic with a couple of lesbian characters - basically it was a way for me to fictionalize me and my girlfriend at the time. the story never saw the light of day. then xena came along and that was all she wrote, so to speak. I wrote my first fic, "mortal dilemma" because i had a story in my head that wouldn't go away. over the years, i've returned to it a few times to tighten up the grammar, but haven't done anything else to it

[ariestess]

I've mostly gotten a thick skin over the people who choose to demonize me over concrit. For the most part, they're the same people who don't tend to do any kind of editing/beta work and their immediate argument to any kind of feedback other than 'MOAR PLZ U R GR8!" is to say "Well, it's JUST fanfic and JUST for fun, so stop being such a meanie poophead." *rolls eyes*

[shaych_03]

to which i just want to headdesk because how many so called "fanfic" writers have gone on to write and publish?

[ariestess]

I know! And how many published authors/writers moonlight with fanfic, too? I mean, I get that there are people who want to just write and don't care about anything else, but to use the "it's just for fun/fanfic" excuse is lazy.