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hey it's that thirty days of fanfic meme
Sep. 1st, 2011 09:29 amI thought oh, thirty days of September, thirty days of meme! And then didn't think about how I'd be at Dragon*Con at the beginning. And yet I wrote some of these answers ahead of time because I was bored at work one day, so they're here for the pasting.
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?
The real answer is that the first fanfic I wrote, I was 13 and writing NC-17 self-insert Duran Duran stories with my then-best friend in which I fucked Roger Taylor with a strap-on. So if there had been an online bandom? I would have been all over that action. (In fact, I still have in my head a musical plot that's half Judith Krantz novel, half jukebox musical, that ties in all the songs from their first three albums and is of course about a female dancer named Rio.)
But the answer I think you want is, I first wrote for Harry Potter fandom, and I got into it because it just seemed to be what people were doing. I read the fic and thought, well, I can write that--despite never having really written fiction before. Piles and piles of essays, yes, but not fiction. I dared because hey, it was all amateur anyway, and also I knew that I could write the kind of light romantic stories that I liked and other people would like them to. When you try to write in school you're so often pushed to write literary fiction, short stories like Raymond Carver, and that's just not the kind of writer I am--so for a long time I thought I wasn't a fiction writer at all. But I was wrong.
It was really the people and the camaraderie that pulled me into fandom. Like so many people who find fandom I was doing through a temporary lonely period, and fandom was not only a great bridge but also, because I live in a big city, was a way into a totally new group of local friends.
( list of questions and links to subsequent days )
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?
The real answer is that the first fanfic I wrote, I was 13 and writing NC-17 self-insert Duran Duran stories with my then-best friend in which I fucked Roger Taylor with a strap-on. So if there had been an online bandom? I would have been all over that action. (In fact, I still have in my head a musical plot that's half Judith Krantz novel, half jukebox musical, that ties in all the songs from their first three albums and is of course about a female dancer named Rio.)
But the answer I think you want is, I first wrote for Harry Potter fandom, and I got into it because it just seemed to be what people were doing. I read the fic and thought, well, I can write that--despite never having really written fiction before. Piles and piles of essays, yes, but not fiction. I dared because hey, it was all amateur anyway, and also I knew that I could write the kind of light romantic stories that I liked and other people would like them to. When you try to write in school you're so often pushed to write literary fiction, short stories like Raymond Carver, and that's just not the kind of writer I am--so for a long time I thought I wasn't a fiction writer at all. But I was wrong.
It was really the people and the camaraderie that pulled me into fandom. Like so many people who find fandom I was doing through a temporary lonely period, and fandom was not only a great bridge but also, because I live in a big city, was a way into a totally new group of local friends.
( list of questions and links to subsequent days )
