Your first fan fic

[theonceler]

My first was when I was in the 6th grade (I had no idea what fanfiction actually was at this point) and it was about a friend of mine and I getting trapped in a toy store only to find that we were stuck in there with Linkin Park. Thankfully it was only a page long and i'm pretty sure I trashed it long ago. But hey, that's better than another friend of mine who used to write Jesse McCartney fanfiction, during his Dreamstreet days! ahahaha.

[Keira]

I wouldn't mind being stuck in a store with Linkin Park. That could be a lot of fun... Lol.

I have this weird thing in which I don't like most of the people around me to know I'm a writer. They'd either make fun of me (in good-nature -- most of them) or make a really big deal about it and want to read it all, and frankly, I don't like sharing that kind of stuff with my family. I'm probably very weird in that respect, and I'll admit to it.

But the funny thing is... I think my mom has always known. She's never actually admitted to knowing, but all throughout my teenager years it wasn't uncommon for me to ask her, "What exact does _________ mean?" when trying to find the right word for a sentence, or, "Would it be used in the right context if..." I also kept (and still do at times) a very messy room and my mom would get tired of it and clean it up for me once every few months. She always put things in a logical place, and more often than not, I'd find a stack of papers I'd pre-written in on my desk. Or my mom would take what she thought were left over notebooks and use them and I'd have to steal them back because somewhere deep in the middle, or end, I'd have things written down.

And then of course there was the time that she told me, "You know, when I was younger, my friends and I used to write stories about us and the Osmonds. They were just fun little stories, though. Innocent and just for fun." I tried my best to give her a very "Uh, okay..." look and left the room.

Yeah, looking back on all the signs, I was so obvious it wasn't even funny. Lol.

[zevie]

LOL, Keira, I'm totally the same way with my friends and fam. No one has read anything I've written since about, age 12. And I haven't confessed to being a fanfic junkie to ANYONE, although my Outsiders obsession is well-documented by my friends - I just so much as *mention* Matt Dillon and all manner of "greaser-lover" taunts come flying my way. Random side-note: my real life name is one letter away from "Dally". I just realized this and it freaked me right out.

Although, I have just recently "come out" as a writer, lol, to my friends at least, who - being all college-age kids - proceeded to also confess to being writers. Mad world.

[theonceler]

I'm the same way! I've never let anyone read anything i've written since I was in elementary school. Once when I was about 11 years old, something I wrote about my dog got put on the SPCA website, and my parents saw it and I was so embarrassed. Never again lol. And no one knows I write fanfiction, I would be picked on endlessly. Though everyone knows about my Outsiders obsession, that's old news lol.

[Keira]

Haha, good to know I'm not alone!

On an almost related note - my youngest brother knows I'm always reading online. I'm not so sure if he thinks it's weird or not, but he's always getting mad that I won't let him see what I'm reading. Unless I'm having a false memory (which COULD be true, though I highly doubt it), I think I told him at one point that my friends write stories and send them to me to read. Lol. I know, such a liar, right? Okay, so it's not a complete lie, but still. Anyway, he accepted that, but still insists on being able to read them. I think I convinced him that he wouldn't like them, though. He loves the Outsiders and HP movies (he watches them nearly as much as I do... usually because he watches them with me.) but he's never read all the way through any of them. He's not a very big reader. At all.

[Des]

I've always been a writer. I started with writing songs for my sister's rock band, and moved to poetry from there.

-laughs-

Let It Be was my first ever Fan Fic since I usually do only original works, so it was sort of a chance in pace to be able to work with another writer's characters for a change.

It sure does wonders for Brain Blockage when you're stuck on a story of your own.

My original characters in my Fan Fics are incarnates of my "real" originals, so it's helped me immensely to try them out in different situations they aren't accustomed to.

And it has improved my use of the English language, too.

[zickachik73]

I think I've been writing fanfics in my head for years, but the first I ever let out made it to writing in November of last year. I'm still a newb.

[hopelesslydevoted]

well....i have one chapter up of the first fic i've written that i actually like....does that count ^.^
( the story's title is Remember, There's Always Hope)


i took down all my stories i wrote when i was like 14 out of sheer shame...I'm still only 17 though...and boy do i have along way to go

[missmouse]

Oh dear.

When I was in grade 7, I rewrote the outsiders and inserted girlfriends and made Dally a moochey mooch and Darry a cry baby. I think it's still in a closet somewhere, I should burn it.

Then I wrote a fanfiction where Johnny and Soda's parents hated them and traded.

[texaskid]

yikes if you must know it was a crossover of ronin warriors and sailor moon back before i knew fanfic existed but my first outsiders fanfic is from greaser to country girl and back. My baby even though it may need a bunch of editing.

[Maddiecake]

<sup>I started fanfiction when I was in sixth grade after reading the book... so that was three years ago. Of course, I was in love with Johnny so I thought I would be "original" and write a story in which my best friend and I went into the past and hooked up with Johnny and, because she loved him oh-so-much, Ponyboy.

This is the fic with the infamous (infamous meaning I think Tens might have mentioned it like, once) scene in which two girls go clothes shopping with Mrs. Curtis.

Then everyone was telling me I was fantastic except one person... iluvthecheat or something like that, and she/he told me it was awful so I got angry and sent them a scathing reply which they dismissed. Actually, THAT story was deleted from my computer when we got a new one. Still, the thought of it makes me cringe.

As for my writing being known, before I moved all my friends knew I wrote. One of my best friends wrote and we talked about our stories constantly, and nobody asked to read anything I wrote... unless I was in English, and then my teacher made me read little snippets of things I would write for various assignments. Now that I'm in a new school, nobody knows a thing about me and I plan to keep the writing secret because the people I've met so far... they strike me as the kind of people who would say "oh my gosh can I read it?!'</sup>

[Keira]

I'm EXACTLY the same way, Maddiecake. Of the people I know in the flesh, there are three people who know I write, or have written in the past. Allison (Rock), her husband, and now my little brother. Everyone else is the, "Oh, can I read it?!" type who would make a big deal out of it, and I just don't want it to be known about me. *Shrugs* Maybe some day I'll be more open about it, but for now I'm happy keeping it within a tight circle of people.

Though, sometimes I think my mom knows I write. Often times I'll have notebooks go missing (with very "critical" information) and I'll find them in her possession, being used by her... there's no way she could miss the hand written scenes, or have no cause to wonder why I used to constantly ask her how to spell things or if a word was being used in context if you said it in a certain way... but she's never said anything to suggest she knows.

[sharpshooter]

Ugh, I'm so lucky I started writing fanfiction before I got into The Outsiders, because let me tell you, you think my writing is bad now, the stuff I wrote when I was like... ten and I'd just discovered FF.net, that was some scary crap.

I found my first couple of stories for a fandom really suck, because I'm still trying to get a feel for all of the characters. Like, any of the stories on my FF.net account right now are in drastic need of being taken down since I wrote them two or so months ago when I was still trying to figure out the characters. Not saying any of my recent writings are a great improvment, but I like them better. -which is saying much, I get really embaressed and overally critical when it comes to something I've written myself-

MC; They go shopping with Mrs. C? I don't think I've ever read that scenario before...

[Maddiecake]

<sup>Do you mean you haven't read it on this site? I don't remember where exactly it was mentioned but it was somewhere.

As for it being used on ff.net, I took it down and the reason that my friend and I went shopping with her was because she was still alive (obviously) and we'd just arrived in our pajamas in the middle of their living room.

Ohhh, and then we got jumped by Socs. Can't have a Mary-Sue story without a good ol' fashion jumping.</sup>

[Nittanylizard]

I just wanted to say that I think it's great you guys are admitting that some of your early stuff was cringe-worthy - partly because you kept at it, partly because it means you've gotten better (since you recognize earlier mistakes), and partly because you can have a sense of humor about it.

We all started somewhere, some of us just a bit later than others . I don't even want to know what kinds of stuff I would have come up with if fanfiction had been around when I was 12/13, hahah.