I started a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ---
Wait, that's the story of my birth, not of the beginning of fan fiction writing. My bad.
Just kidding, of course.
I started writing fan fic because I was bored and lonely. LOL I was home schooled and I didn't have a lot of friends, and BSB had become my friends over the years so I just wrote stories about what I'd do and say with them. Then one day I started working on a story called Planet Backstreet. It took me almost 2 years to finish it, but it was so much fun I barely felt that time go by. Then in 2000, when it was completed, I realized it was over 500 type-written pages. (Dude, I just realized it was about the same length as Fix -- weird. Irrelevant, but weird. I dont know why it's weird either actually. I'll shut up now. LOL) So I spent all my allowance printing it pretty much. Well long story short, Planet Backstreet scored me backstage passes from the radio station here in NH (I went to the last meet & greet before AJ went to rehab - literally 3 days before he was admitted) and my mom and I got to go meet the Boys (I've shared this story a billion times so here's the condensed version: mom. purse. Kevin. crotch.).
At that point I didn't know other people wrote stories about BSB. I thought it was a weird thing I did. Then I heard about Oreos for Breakfast, and someone somewhere gave me a link and I started reading that story and spent the entire time thinking that I could totally do this. I'm not sure how I drew connection from Oreos' host site to AC, but probably from one of you guys on LD posting links to stories, I'd imagine... Next thing you know I'm over here.
I posted with a different name originally, I don't remember what it was though, and I deleted all those stories before I went on a hiatus. Then I came back and wrote the Saving the Day for Blondes stories a couple years ago. It wasn't until writing Something Beautiful this summer that I got back into it really seriously.