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Aug. 2nd, 2003 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
person4I? Am weak. Any challenge I see that interests me I must do, no matter how many other things I have on my plate and completely ignoring that I need to take November off for Nanowrimo.
It's too sweet to resist. Choose either your first active fandom or your favorite childhood book/show/whatever and write a fic. I chose first fandom, which was Fairy Tales. I was six or seven, in second grade, and didn't realise what it is I was doing when I started writing horrible horrible Mary Sues set in fairy tale worlds and sharing them with friends. I still remember my very first fic, mostly because I still have it somewhere and every so often I drag out my ancient writings to laugh at. It involved me going to the library and finding that all the words were missing, then noticed they were being kidnapped by various boy fairy tale characters (the only one that stands out is the Pied Piper leading off a bunch of words with his music) inside of illustrations in their books. Then I joined up with fairy tale princesses to rescue the words.
Really, considering what a huge fairy tale freak I am to this day, it's surprising I never went back to it on my own. I did have an idea once for a Frog Prince slash semi-humor rewrite, which is what I'm going with now, but I (clearly) never actually wrote it. Maybe the memories of my terrible early fics just scared me out of it, which I realise is stupid since at the time I'd only know how to write for about a year and a half so it's stupid to carry any shame over how bad they were.
It's too sweet to resist. Choose either your first active fandom or your favorite childhood book/show/whatever and write a fic. I chose first fandom, which was Fairy Tales. I was six or seven, in second grade, and didn't realise what it is I was doing when I started writing horrible horrible Mary Sues set in fairy tale worlds and sharing them with friends. I still remember my very first fic, mostly because I still have it somewhere and every so often I drag out my ancient writings to laugh at. It involved me going to the library and finding that all the words were missing, then noticed they were being kidnapped by various boy fairy tale characters (the only one that stands out is the Pied Piper leading off a bunch of words with his music) inside of illustrations in their books. Then I joined up with fairy tale princesses to rescue the words.
Really, considering what a huge fairy tale freak I am to this day, it's surprising I never went back to it on my own. I did have an idea once for a Frog Prince slash semi-humor rewrite, which is what I'm going with now, but I (clearly) never actually wrote it. Maybe the memories of my terrible early fics just scared me out of it, which I realise is stupid since at the time I'd only know how to write for about a year and a half so it's stupid to carry any shame over how bad they were.