Well last night was the first time I've known every emotion (apart from anger) to be present in my body at the same time, because my friends in my 'real world' now know the URL for my FanFiction.net account.
I started to read fanfiction about a year and a half ago, with Casualty 'cause Maggie and Charlie were so cute together and there was a forum link to FanFiction.net and then I read stuff for Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Indiana Jones, Princess Diaries + Love Actually. It was around about this time that my Taggart obsession kicked in (I previously liked the show but that grew into what it's like now) and I realised the only stories (which were on a different site) I could find were for Robbie/Michael which I just felt literally sick at, so I felt a need to change that...
So I wrote my first story on the 5th September 2008. It was called Moving and it was for the lovely Robbie/Jackie pairing which I am still majorly addicted to. I never in a million years thought I would be willing to share my stories with people in my personal life, true enough I also never thought I'd meet one of the greatest people I know through it (Helen you rock my world!)
Over the past year and couple of weeks I have grown to be obsessed with the fanfiction world and could not imagine what life would be like without it. I love how there is such a great range of ideas even just for one show. If anyone took fanfiction away from me just now then I don't know how I could survive, and I'm truthfully not exaggerating; it means everything to me.
Maybe if you ask me in a year's time then my opinion will have changed but I still hope to be writing fics and reading brilliant ones curteousy of the wonderful writers on the site *cough* Helen *cough*
Don't get me wrong, I have always been proud of (some of) my stories on the site but I just couldn't have imagined what my friends would think of it if they read quite a bit of it.
So far I have wrote 19 fics, 16 of which are on Taggart, 2 are The Mentalist and 1 is for Princess Diaries (I now can't be bothered which this fandom, so I probably won't be writing more for it) I have my 20th one in the early stages, it will of course be a Taggart one and I have no idea if it will be an incredibly long one-shot or a chapter fic so watch this space.
Hey if anything, my fanfiction has inspired more people to write and we know have 42 Taggart fics on the site, with an ambition to have 75 up by Christmas.
Wow, you're a brave little soldier because I know how much of an issue you had with sharing your url so well done. It's the first step into the big world XD
ReplyDeleteMine is a secret bar Lauren and Davidd (mine) because Lauren is nosey and Davidd has an account. No one else understands my desire to write. They laugh at me and say im crap *hangs head* so I'm envious you have friends you obviously trust. YAY.
I'll thank the stars of that day I decided to read X Files fanfic and noticed that one lone story for Taggart. Good times!
Woo, we'll do it XD
Thank you!
ReplyDeleteAnd I love how we have to say 'mine' when we're talking about Lauren and David, it makes me giggle. Oh and do not believe the people who say you're crap because you aren't!
:) That one lone story spawned so much didn't it?
It's so confusing. What are the chances the people we talk about are called the same thing! lol
ReplyDeleteAnd it did indeed XD