WIP Challenge Day 4, Saturday

[jagnikjen]

Tell us about your writing endeavors for the day. Have you...

~ written
~ edited
~ researched
~ beta'd someone else's work
~ taken the day off to refresh the muse

Discussion question...what was your very first fandom? Not necessarily that you got involved in, but just that show/book/movie that you loved so so so so much. If you did get involved, what form did that take?

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[jagnikjen]

I've been writing/revising today with only about 400 additional words so far, but I haven't been going at gung-ho today. I'm also participating in an online class for the month of September.

My first fandom, hmmm...trying to think back...I guess would have to be Anne of Green Gables. There was no Internet back then and I had just gotten a VCR for my birthday/high school graduation present. When Anne of Green Gables was aired on PBS, I taped all the parts and re-watched often. This was 1986, 1987 folks. :)

More recently, JAG was the first fandom for which I interacted with other people, wrote fic, etc. But even that didn't happen until the mid-years of the show.

[xpaperplanex]

Oh man, I loved the Anne of Green Gables shows. Never got into the books, but they did a really good job on the televised versions. Best gift ever was the proper VHS tapes so I didn't have to keep watching the ancient recorded ones that my brother had taped over parts of.

[littlebutfierce]

Wrote more noodle-y, "this is how I figure out how to get inside a new character's mind" sort of snippets -- this time using some of the master list of prompts at mundane_bingo, which is always a nice way to get me writing!

I dunno what my first fandom would be really! Possibly Mercedes Lackey's Heralds books back in the early '90s in high school. >_< To join the fan club you had to come up w/your own Mary Sue Herald, which I loved doing at the time.

[jagnikjen]

Never heard of the Heralds books, but cool that you were in the fan club. :)

[ficwriter1966]

I took a day off today - got that WIP all buttoned up and put to bed, so today is for reading and watching some TV. And pondering which fic to tackle next!

My first fandom. Oh gosh. I loved a lot of things as a kid, and did a little writing for some of them, but the first thing that really inspired my Muse was Starsky & Hutch. Dug up every little bit of info I could find on the show and the actors, did a TON of writing, found some fellow fans to correspond with - ah, those were the good old pre-Internet days!

[jagnikjen]

Starsky & Hutch--how fun. :)

[linaewen]

I wrote a wordy outline for this month's challenge fic that is basically the gist of the story -- not countable words exactly, though some of the phrases I used in the outline are the forerunners of real writing. I need to research a few things that came to mind as I wrote; after that maybe I'll feel ready to turn the outline into something that counts as a word count!

For TV shows it was Star Trek as one of the first things I really devoted myself to -- I invested myself in Star Trek by watching all the series and reading what other people wrote in the line of ST novels. I never wrote any fic myself, though the thought did cross my mind. I religiously taped as many episodes as I could and carried them with me when I spent some time living overseas. When the DVD's finally came out, I bought them, but only for DS9, which is my favorite of the series. I'm still passionate about DS9 these days! Maybe it's time I wrote something for it...

Lord of the Rings was my real passion, though, from early days. I read everything Tolkien wrote in chronological order once a year, and collected all kinds of stuff related to LotR. However, it wasn't until after the Peter Jackson movies started coming out about 10 years ago and I discovered the internet that I got involved in actually writing LotR-based fic. That's still my major fandom even now, as far as writing goes.

[jagnikjen]

DS9 is my fave ST series as well. Who's your favorite character?

[linaewen]

Chief Miles O'Brien is my favorite -- after him comes Garak, I think!

[jagnikjen]

Oh, I love Garak, too. I really enjoyed his banter with Dr. Bashir.

[lacerta]

Oh, you're bringing back memories of giant drawers and boxes full of Star Trek tapes.

[devilc]

Day of rest.

And, it was the X-Comics, mid 1990s

[jagnikjen]

YAY for rest.

X-Comics--cool. :)

[pkc_creative]

Managed a little bit of brainstorming for what might be my big bang fic, mostly abbreviated notes on my phone but it's something and it'll do me for now. Still need to figure what fandom I'm going to write in for the bb though. have three too choose from.

First taste of fandom was Simpsons when I was about six, and most weekends we'd watch the show at each other's houses. Back then, around 1990 it was only on sky in the UK.

The first fandom to get me truly involved in was X-Files in 1994 when I was about ten (I feel so old now ;p) and when we got internet I started going on the few sites there was and reading the fic. Never really wrote much XF fic though. That show also helped me through some very rough times when I was growing up.

[jagnikjen]

Oh, I love XF as well. Only ever wrote one fic for it.

[lacerta]

Editing and a little bit of research for a few cracky lines. Not sure whether the amount of research it would take to do this properly is worth it, but I am fond of the idea.

Star Trek TOS. I loved it so very much and learned all the episodes by heart and collected every little bit of information I could get my hands on (which wasn't much because I was a 10 year old kid without internet). I never wrote anything for it, though, which is rather relieving.

[jagnikjen]

It's really hard for me to get into ST:TOS...because it's so old and cheesy, I have a hard time not laughing. But I so understand the importance of it's role in fandoms and fanfic today. :)

[lacerta]

Cheesy just doesn't mean the same thing when you're 10 ;) But yes, these days I have a hard time not laughing, too.

[rebecca2525]

Star Trek:TOS! My second fandom after Babylon 5, and the first one that got me into fanfic! I still love it; it will always have a special place in my heart.

[lacerta]

Same here!

I've never seen Babylon 5, but I keep hearing exciting things about it, so maybe I should change that. Does it need chronological watching or are they mostly stand-alone episodes?

[rebecca2525]

For the most part, you should stick to the chronological order. What makes Babylon 5 so great is the overall story arc, the character development etc. Since season one is the weakest season with quite a few flaws and mostly standalone episodes before The Story Arch fully starts, you can (and maybe should) skip parts of it. See this meta for more info about which episodes are important. (For minimal spoilers, read the first two paragraphs and skip to method 4.) S1 is much more enjoyable, it seems, if you are re-visiting it with the knowledge of what's about to come.

[lacerta]

Oh thanks, that's very useful info.

[bay_alexison]

Very busy and distracting day today, but I was able to get some edits my beta suggested done. There's actually quite a lot of edits I need to go through, so tomorrow hopefully I'll be able to get through the rest of the edits.

As far as I can remember, Pokemon. Back when it was really, really popular my friends and I would trade/play the cards, talk about the show and games, and show each other our Pokemon stuff. A lot of my real life friends aren't into Pokemon anymore and I feel off from the fandom for several years, but then I got back into it after playing one of the new games. I also then was able to find some Pokemon friends online and friend them.

[jagnikjen]

My kids loved Pokemon, too, but I think I was a little too old for it. :)

[rebecca2525]

I tried to stay away from the computer this weekend because my arm hurt and needed a break from mouse/keyboard. So no editing done. It feels very meh because most of the stuff I want to do involves a computer.

It's hard to pin it down, but I think Babylon 5 would count as my first fandom. I taped the episodes, bought a model of the station, and I probably would have read the hell out of Delenn/Sheridan if I'd had internet. *g* A little later, I discovered Star Trek:TOS and loved it. A biography about Shatner I read back then had a throwaway line about Kirk/Spock fanfic, and after a few miliseconds of Huh? I was all Whoa, I want that! and I started my own huge Kirk/Spock WIP. It died together with my hardrive before it ever got finished, which is probably a blessing. When I finally had internet access at university, I searched for Kirk/Spock fic (only that I didn't know the proper terms at first; the biography I had read was in German and not very specific.) The longer stuff I saved to floppy disk and read at home... Floppy disks! I feel old now.

[jagnikjen]

We have boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of floppy disks!!!

[lacygrey]

First internet fandom would have been Sprited Away. Someone asked me if the film had a sequel and I went searching. When I drew a blank I started reading fanfiction.

I knew fanfic existed but I'd never taken an interest.

So, there's nothing like an open ended canon...