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Purpura Lipstick:
I actually got started writing fanfic first.  Carried around a notebook in high school that my friend and I would write parts (I wasn't allowed to write scenes with me and vice versa) it was fun so when I started CYDMR my friend convinced me to give writng an actual fanfic by myself.  I did and I knew there were other writers out there, I didn't read much fanfic until I started my awards turned review site. 

RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: Carter-Orange on August 02, 2012, 02:24:14 PM ---Yes, Brian is hotter than Mark.  Hmm, for Jordan what about Zachary Quinto?

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I could see that.  Poor Sylar with bot flies in his brain LOL.

RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: DelphinaCarter on August 02, 2012, 04:59:48 PM ---how about this: When did everyone get started in fanfic? Were you more of a writer or a reader, and how much has that changed since then?

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I discovered fanfic during the summer of 1999.  I'd been a fan since early 1998, but the Millennium era was when I really got obsessed and started looking BSB up on the internet and stuff, and that's when I stumbled onto my first fanfic.  I read a ton of it that summer; I couldn't get enough.

I originally couldn't see myself writing it at all, but that changed when I got an idea for a story and gave it a shot, sometime over that winter of 99/00.  I started one story that I never finished, but then later rewrote from scratch and posted (Years of Grace), but the first story that I finished (Heartache) I got hosted on a site in I think February of 2000... and by the end of April, I had started my site and was writing a chapter a day and a novel a month LOL.  Back then, I read and wrote in equal amounts - a LOT of both!!  We still had dial-up internet, and my mom was always on my case about tying up the phone line, so I did a lot of copying and pasting of stories into Word to save and take back to my own computer to read offline.

Nowadays I'm probably more of a writer than a reader.  I do still enjoy reading fanfics, but I mostly just follow a select few in-progress fics and read the updates on them when they're posted.  I don't find myself seeking them out as often as I used to.  If I scroll past a summary on the Most Recent page that catches my eye, I'll check it out, but I don't find myself actively searching for new stories to read.  I think about writing a lot, though, and try to do at least a little every day (or every weekend, during the school year).

RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: Rose on August 02, 2012, 06:23:20 PM ---I don't read comedies that often. Not that I don't like them, it's just not many people write them and write them well for that matter. I'm really picky with them LOL. A lot of the ones I like are old school, like Mig Witch Project LOL. (I'm sure Julie has the link for that somewhere).

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Mig Witch Project!  http://www.angelfire.com/bc/BackstreetComedy/Blair.html

People who have not read this story before are probably going to think it's very stupid, but I was literally ROTFLMAO reading this story the first time I came across it (back in about 2000, from the days when Blair Witch Project parodies were still relevent LOL - it's an oldie!!), and it still amuses me.  It's one of those humor stories that definitely makes fun of the Boys a lot.

RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: Rose on August 02, 2012, 06:26:02 PM ---I have this tendency of talking you into new stories :P LMAO. Cause if I remember right you protested Undead at first too.  :D

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I didn't protest; I just thought we were joking until I realized we weren't LOL.  But I love how we can take a joke and turn it into an actual story!

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