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How Did You Discover Fan Fic?

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Sakabelle:
I thought that we had this topic before but I couldn't find it. Also I figure there's enough new people now to make it worthwhile.

Basically how did you discover BSB (or other) fan fic?

I found it when I was searching online for BSB pictures in 1999. There was a section on this site called "stories" and I thought it was fan encounters, so I clicked on it. It turned out to be fan fiction and I was addicted right away. I started writing my own right away as well and that site hosted me. It was way cool.

I moved on to fanfiction.net when I discovered how easy it was to get feedback on that site. When they removed the music groups section I stopped writing BSB fic since I was moving on to anime in my high school days anyway.

I don't remember how I found AC, but I think it was through a message board. Either way I'd been off and on trying to find a new site similar to FF.net and also one with a way to chat with other members so this place was perfect for me :)

Anyway, how'd you guys get started?

FrickingKaos:
Wow considering I have been writing for over ten years now....I have No idea how I started fanfic. All I know I used to be on Fanfiction.net and my screenname was supergirl64. I had written only one or two stories there...but when ff.net removed the music section all my stuff got lost and deleted. I went on a 5 year hiatus from writing, and then I was reading some fanfics randomly online when I joined AC. The first fanfic I read here was one of Mare's. I started reading more of other people's stuff and got hooked. I didn't post anything on here until maybe 2009 when my friends on twitter suggested I share my writing...and here I am LOL. 2 years later and over 12 stories to my name...I love it and I would not leave ac for anything.

kevmylove:
Good question...wow I haven't been on here for a bit.  ;D

Well ever since my friend introduced me to the BSB music, we started writing little stories and then we wrote a long one together. One day I was looking through the net for something (don't remember what) and I came across some type of BSB Fan Fiction Archive. I clicked and got all these stories, man I went nuts reading them, of course back then a lot of them were really corny BSB meets fan and falls in love with her instantly. I was a bit too infatuated with Kevin to care! lol. Then I (don't laugh) realized, oh wait, what I've been writing is fan fiction. I found AC and posted my first story. Which was terrible...no spaces, broken paragraphs...e tc. That's how I discovered fan fics.  :shrug:

Rose:
When I got my first computer for Christmas at 13, so...like 1999, I started surfing the net, visiting BSB sites and such. Like with Steph, I clicked on a section named "stories" once and realized people actually wrote fiction about them. In the links section of that same fansite I found fanfiction.net . I already wrote original fiction in my spare time then, and so I was like "well if these people can write stories about BSB, I can too!" So I went for it and posted my early works on ff.net and bluecloud/Stephanie's old site cause she hosted me back then.

When ff.net stopped allowing real person fanfic, I kept writing and having my stories hosted on Stephanie's site. Soon after my friend Jamelet, who I met on ff.net told me about AC and how we could post a story her, myself, and Anastacia were writing together there. That was like 2003 lol. Been here ever since. Thank god there's no surviving copies of my beginning stories from ff.net still on the internet LOL. It's definitely Mary Sue/cliche lmfao.

Luckily I've grown as a writer since I was 13 lol.

Chrissy:
I don't quite remember how it all started, but I would sleep over at my cousin's house a lot when I was young, and they had internet (dialup!!!!). When I was in junior high she and I would surf the web for Nick Carter stuff, and somehow, around that time I stumbled across fanfiction and started printing it out for my friends at school. This was around '98-'99. I did try my hand at writing fanfic as a tween, but rather than posting it online my friends and I would write it in spiral notebooks and share it with each other that way.

In high school, I followed a lot of those fanfic mailing lists on yahoo groups, where people post their updates chapter by chapter and you get them in your e-mail. I did a lot of fic reading but never any writing, except for the first chapter of a story that I posted to the mailing list. The rest of the fic never got off the ground.  ::)

I also had a small Nick fanfic archive site, and while looking for stories I liked to add to it, I came across Mare's work, which eventually led me to AC back in 2003.

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