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I've never published or really fully written fic. Mostly I "write" in my head, and if something is really pushy I'll type or write out scenes but never a full story. But now I have this idea and it's been eating away and I've been writing a bit here and there and I'm actually toying with the idea of trying my hand at actualfax writing a story and publishing it. *gasp*

So share with me! What was your first foray into publishing fannish works? Did you dive right in or just dip your toe? What fandom or idea was the push to actually join in the ~~crazy~~ fun?

Doctor Who (back in the '80's, when everything was published on paper and collected in a fanzine, and don't I miss that, some days).

I had friends who were part of a DW fanclub, which had its own fanzine. I wound up becoming friends with one of the editors, and when she published her own fanzine, I was a regular contributor to it, usually with poetry (because I wrote reams of poetry back then).

I dropped out of fanfic until around, uh, '99, I think, when I posted a BtVS fanfic on the internet. And I kinda haven't looked back since.

I first wrote a OC self-insert Naruto fanfic before publishing Naruto stuff on ff.net when I was younger.
I did two drabbles before trying to do a multi-chapter fic, which I ended up never finishing. Since then, I've only done one multi-chapter story (which I at least finished) but I don't think I can handle stories that need more than one chapter to be finished.

My first foray was when my English teacher put out a notebook, wrote the first paragraph of a story and told all of us to pass the book around and write a continuation with one paragraph each.

The story became convoluted as all hell.

My first full fanfiction story was a crossover between Fullmetal Alchemist, Phineas and Ferb, xxxHOLiC, and an OC named Molly Sloan (though I'm sure there were more fandoms...). It all involved CERN trying to create the 'God Particle' but ultimately created a space-time rip with a black hole.

It was also weird as hell, now that I think about it. I wrote the whole story down in a notebook and also drew some parts of the story myself. Sadly, the notebook is back on my shelf at home so I can't show you the drawings, but thanks for making me remember my school days!

That sounds like such an excellent way to introduce/teach creative writing. Kudos to your teacher!

It was/is. It was because of what the teacher did that I got interested in self-made stories, so I searched on the Internet to see if others had done the same.

Lo and behold, I found fanfic!

Unfortunately, the teacher was a trainee and can only teach us for a few months, but almost everyone in the class wanted him as our permanent English teacher. :(

Thank goodness I still have the memories.

^ Oh, I forgot to log in. I was the OP!

I'd been writing fanfic (and drawing fan comics!) since the early 80s, just had no idea there was a name or a "market" for that stuff until I got online in the mid-90s. So naturally as soon as I found out that it was called "fanfiction" and people posted it on their websites (before ff.net), I made a website and started writing stuff in Notepad instead of notebooks, so I could post it online.

That was in Final Fantasy 7 fandom. I remember writing fanfic for Megaman and Ninja Gaiden and River City Ransom back in the NES era, and X-Men and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Dragonlance and Darkover in the early 90s... but if I go way, way back, I vaguely remember writing down my own Scooby Doo mysteries when I was a little kid.

I think either when I wrote shitty Yu-Gi-Oh fanfiction on a forum, or when I wrote a series of back-and-forth emails ("horse mails" i'm so clever) between Iago and Othello for a Language Arts project (which I printed out and proceeded to dip in coffee to make it look ironically ye olde. i was so the cleverest i want to punch younger me)

I dived right into the Buffy fandom when I was 14, a couple of months after we got on the internet at home. I ended up writing a lot more (and longer) about various boy bands of the time (and wrote such rubbish fic that when I think about it now I actually have to physically stick two fingers up at younger!me). I'm lousy at self-motivation so I haven't written in about six years and just "write" in my head now too, but just the other day I managed to write a couple of pages. Hurrah!

Been writing most of my life, but the first fanfic I actually wrote...wait. I wrote a story about a unicorn in sixth grade that had Frodo Baggins in it.
*cough*

Anyway. Um. First fanfic - Harry Potter, posted it on a mailing list thing, can't even remember what you call them now. But - so fun! So very, very fun. I only wrote a few, though, smaller, shorter things. Then - into BtVS and the same, smaller, shorter things until suddenly i was hit by a massive bunny and i re-wrote the entire BtVS series from about season three or something through the end of AtS, one chapter a week for a year. Whooo! That really got the ball rolling. :)

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