Check in day 16

[disgruntled_owl]

How is your weekend going?

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Today I

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wrote
3 (42.9%)

edited
1 (14.3%)

posted
1 (14.3%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

planned
2 (28.6%)

took a break
2 (28.6%)

dealt with life
3 (42.9%)

When did you first start writing fanfic? What was your first fandom?

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[linaewen]

I dabbled with writing from a young age, but my first fanfic was posted in May 2002. My first fandom was probably Star Trek, but I never wrote any stories for that; it was soon to be swallowed up by my main fandom, Lord of the Rings/Tolkien -- which is still my main fandom, and the one I wrote in and still write in! I was a reader of Tolkien since the age of 12, but I didn't get inspired to write in the fandom until after the first of the films came out in 2001.

The only other fandom I have written and posted in is Major (baseball anime/manga). I also have a number of story ideas for Naruto which I have written down and kept track of, but I doubt I'll ever write them, as there are too many LotR stories to be told.

[brithistorian]

Have you ever drifted over into LOTRiPS fandom (LOTR Real Person Slash)? I know a lot of Tolkein fans consider that as being like "the dark side," but there are (or were last time I was around) a lot of really creative people in that fandom writing some really interesting fics.

[linaewen]

I'm familiar with the fandom, but I've never actually read anything in it. Myself, I'm more a fan of the characters than the Real People who played them, but a number of my online friends in the LotR community (all of whom are very creative writers!) have written in that fandom.

[brithistorian]

My wife got into the fandom and started passing on some of the stories to me. I was just really impressed at the amount of research and worldbuilding that went into some of the stories.