The 30 Day Fanfiction Writing Meme.

The 30 Day Fanfiction Writing Meme. Gakked from shakensilence. :D

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 guess I first realized what fanfic was in about 1995/1996. When you're about 10 years old and just discovering the internet, the first thing you can think to do is search for the things you like. I was very into Sailor Moon, so as I was checking out fan site, I saw a lot of people posting their fanfic. It was all terrible, but it was the only place where people were actually writing Zoicite as a boy (in the dub version of Sailor Moon, Zoicite is female because America just wasn't ready for beautiful gay villains). The first sorta fanfic I actually wrote for myself, however, was Hanson in 1997. It was wacky, very cartoonish PeeWee's Playhouse sort of madcap adventures, involving transvestite bunnies and paintball and pizza parties on the moon. It wasn't so much RPF as little vignettes with illustrations attached. Probably what drew me to do that was because I was 1.) obsessed with Hanson (good music, pretty boys, what's not to love?), and 2.) the boys themselves drew comics and made videos of their crazy lives that made me think that it must be fun to hang out with them, and I just wanted to play around with some of the stories they told. I never showed any of my comics or stories to anyone else on online fandom because everyone else seemed to writing RPS incest torture fics that were... really disturbing, so I tired of fanfic and stuck with the art side of things.

I would have to say that the first full length fanfic with plot I began to write was for Buffy the Vampire Slayer in about 2001. I had already started liking vampire-related things, but I avoided BtVS because I felt like anything with the name "Buffy" in it must be incredibly stupid. I caught the original airing of "Something Blue" on TV and watched because, well, James Marsters is the prettiest pretty boy in pretty boy town and the jokes in that episode are hilarious. It really drew me in, so I started watching and couldn't stop. I read a lot of fanfic to fill in the gaps while I was trying to get caught up with the first three seasons. I didn't really feel the need to write any fanfic of my own for a while. At first I was just writing a lot of flashback fic of the Fanged Four globetrotting, and by the end of Season Six, I was writing some AU (alternate timelines, alternate episodes, in-between episodes, etc.). I posted it on some fanfic sites, but the feedback I got was so hurtful at the time that I took it down and posted it on my own Geocities site... Then I didn't get any feedback at all because I didn't know how to advertise nor did I have an LJ. I got an LJ in 2004, posted my first ficlet in 2006, didn't get really get any responses, didn't post any fanfic until 2007, again didn't really get any responses, and then in 2008 I wrote Automated Utopia and got a lot of responses! I felt like I had found my voice and the right places to share my work, and I've been posting ever since. :D

( Cut for the other 29 questions for the upcoming days... )

The 30 Day Fanfiction Writing Meme.

The 30 Day Fanfiction Writing Meme. Gakked from shakensilence. :D

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 guess I first realized what fanfic was in about 1995/1996. When you're about 10 years old and just discovering the internet, the first thing you can think to do is search for the things you like. I was very into Sailor Moon, so as I was checking out fan site, I saw a lot of people posting their fanfic. It was all terrible, but it was the only place where people were actually writing Zoicite as a boy (in the dub version of Sailor Moon, Zoicite is female because America just wasn't ready for beautiful gay villains). The first sorta fanfic I actually wrote for myself, however, was Hanson in 1997. It was wacky, very cartoonish PeeWee's Playhouse sort of madcap adventures, involving transvestite bunnies and paintball and pizza parties on the moon. It wasn't so much RPF as little vignettes with illustrations attached. Probably what drew me to do that was because I was 1.) obsessed with Hanson (good music, pretty boys, what's not to love?), and 2.) the boys themselves drew comics and made videos of their crazy lives that made me think that it must be fun to hang out with them, and I just wanted to play around with some of the stories they told. I never showed any of my comics or stories to anyone else on online fandom because everyone else seemed to writing RPS incest torture fics that were... really disturbing, so I tired of fanfic and stuck with the art side of things.

I would have to say that the first full length fanfic with plot I began to write was for Buffy the Vampire Slayer in about 2001. I had already started liking vampire-related things, but I avoided BtVS because I felt like anything with the name "Buffy" in it must be incredibly stupid. I caught the original airing of "Something Blue" on TV and watched because, well, James Marsters is the prettiest pretty boy in pretty boy town and the jokes in that episode are hilarious. It really drew me in, so I started watching and couldn't stop. I read a lot of fanfic to fill in the gaps while I was trying to get caught up with the first three seasons. I didn't really feel the need to write any fanfic of my own for a while. At first I was just writing a lot of flashback fic of the Fanged Four globetrotting, and by the end of Season Six, I was writing some AU (alternate timelines, alternate episodes, in-between episodes, etc.). I posted it on some fanfic sites, but the feedback I got was so hurtful at the time that I took it down and posted it on my own Geocities site... Then I didn't get any feedback at all because I didn't know how to advertise nor did I have an LJ. I got an LJ in 2004, posted my first ficlet in 2006, didn't get really get any responses, didn't post any fanfic until 2007, again didn't really get any responses, and then in 2008 I wrote Automated Utopia and got a lot of responses! I felt like I had found my voice and the right places to share my work, and I've been posting ever since. :D

( Cut for the other 29 questions for the upcoming days... )