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Carter-Orange:
I'm a late starter when it comes to fanfic!

It was 2007 and I was browsing the internet for Take That stuff when I came across the official Take That website which had a forum.  I'd never even seen them before (I know, I'm slow, lol) and spent ages looking at the pictures on there.  Then I noticed the story section and thought it was fans encounters with the band...I was soon proved wrong!  I was hooked and spent hours reading, never in a million years thought I'd give it a go though.  Then a few months later, I tried writing and found that I enjoyed it, although my first couple of attempts were awful and I'm glad that site has now closed and those stories have vanished off the face of the earth :)

I was looking for BSB stuff one day and eventually found AC in 2008.  I was blown away by the stories here, so much better quality than a lot of the stuff I'd read elsewhere, so I joined up and have never looked back.

FrickingKaos:

Hmmm this is like playing seven degrees of Mare ;) LOL

Pengi:
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.  :P

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.

julilly:
It was a warm summer day in 1999... wait. I'll give some back story first.

Before I actually posted fanfic online I always wrote it. When I was 6 or 7 I used to record to cassette (on a boombox) NKOTB fanfic with my sister and her friend. I stumbled upon those tapes years later but I don't know where they are now :(

Later on my friends and I used to act out stories that I would come up with (circa 1996-97). I lived in Germany then and BSB had just exploded. So we would all play different characters, we even made this scrapbook of who everyone was with models cut out of a catalog and the boys cut out of a Teen Beat mag.

Fast forward to 1999 I had just moved to Canada and had internet at home for the first time ever. Like many people I was looking up pictures and stumbled across some stories, (I don't remember what site) and was pretty much hooked. I joined a bunch of Yahoogroups at that point, met Karen, we started writing/chatting together and the rest is history. I've gone through several incarnations of websites, etc but a couple of years later when I was in college I was nominated for an award and one of the people in the same category as me was Chaos and that's what brought me to AC, which at that point only had Ground Zero posted on it.

Pengi:

--- Quote from: julilly on March 02, 2011, 07:39:42 AM ---Later on my friends and I used to act out stories that I would come up with (circa 1996-97). I lived in Germany then and BSB had just exploded. So we would all play different characters, we even made this scrapbook of who everyone was with models cut out of a catalog and the boys cut out of a Teen Beat mag.
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OMFG!!!!!!!!!! I wasn't going to admit to it, but my nephew and I used to do that too! He was always Nick because he had blonde hair. LOL....  :D Plus I wasn't jealous of the role at that time cos I <3'd Brian anyways.

That's SOOOO funny.

I thought we were the only ones nuts enough to do that.

Nuts in a good way.

*muah*

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