On Writing #2
Okay, a confession: it all started with fan fiction.
It was two days before my 13th birthday. I think my father and I had a fight that evening, and in my anger, I grabbed a blank sheet of paper and my ballpen and wrote in my large, round handwriting, "I hate you!" I yelled... It was my first story about a girl with long brown hair and brown eyes who played the guitar. Her name was January Ann McGill and she lived in Florida. My sense of logic and facility of reasoning was still quite raw at that point in time; she had managed to score the $100 million jackpot because she lived with the Backstreet Boys. (Yes, I admit, I was a fan. And that is the understatement of my entire adolescent life.)
I wrote fan fiction about the Backstreet Boys from seventh grade until third year high school. I have about three large folders at home, filled with my handwriting - anywhere from bond paper to ruled yellow paper to intermediate pads - and spanning roughly two and a half "seasons" worth of stories, excluding all the "special episodes" and crossovers. A friend of mine, Karla Manlangit, also wrote these fan fics, and we used to do a lot of collaborations: I still have the ten-peso notebooks we used to write in. During recess and lunch, we would meet and talk about our plots and characters and agree on the direction our stories were taking. And in the manner of secret agents, the notebooks would be passed from one hand to another. Our "fans" - classmates and friends who faithfully followed our series - would stick small Post-It notes on the pages, commenting on the way we wrote the story. Sometimes, we would even do Mary Janes, including ourselves within the plot. Talk about writing metafiction.
After the Backstreet Boys, I became obssessed with The X-Files fan fiction. As far as I'm concerned, X-Philes are still the best fan fiction writers around: smart, intelligent, and strong writers who knew their characters and their storylines. Next are the Harry Potter writers, especially my favorite, Cassandra Claire, who also did the underground phenomena, The Very Secret Diaries of the Lord of the Rings. I bow down to her.
And now, in my hours of boredom and need, I turn to my old comfort, revisiting and re-reading fan fiction of my old fandoms, feeling nostalgic and borderline schizophrenic all at the same time. ^_^
It was two days before my 13th birthday. I think my father and I had a fight that evening, and in my anger, I grabbed a blank sheet of paper and my ballpen and wrote in my large, round handwriting, "I hate you!" I yelled... It was my first story about a girl with long brown hair and brown eyes who played the guitar. Her name was January Ann McGill and she lived in Florida. My sense of logic and facility of reasoning was still quite raw at that point in time; she had managed to score the $100 million jackpot because she lived with the Backstreet Boys. (Yes, I admit, I was a fan. And that is the understatement of my entire adolescent life.)
I wrote fan fiction about the Backstreet Boys from seventh grade until third year high school. I have about three large folders at home, filled with my handwriting - anywhere from bond paper to ruled yellow paper to intermediate pads - and spanning roughly two and a half "seasons" worth of stories, excluding all the "special episodes" and crossovers. A friend of mine, Karla Manlangit, also wrote these fan fics, and we used to do a lot of collaborations: I still have the ten-peso notebooks we used to write in. During recess and lunch, we would meet and talk about our plots and characters and agree on the direction our stories were taking. And in the manner of secret agents, the notebooks would be passed from one hand to another. Our "fans" - classmates and friends who faithfully followed our series - would stick small Post-It notes on the pages, commenting on the way we wrote the story. Sometimes, we would even do Mary Janes, including ourselves within the plot. Talk about writing metafiction.
After the Backstreet Boys, I became obssessed with The X-Files fan fiction. As far as I'm concerned, X-Philes are still the best fan fiction writers around: smart, intelligent, and strong writers who knew their characters and their storylines. Next are the Harry Potter writers, especially my favorite, Cassandra Claire, who also did the underground phenomena, The Very Secret Diaries of the Lord of the Rings. I bow down to her.
And now, in my hours of boredom and need, I turn to my old comfort, revisiting and re-reading fan fiction of my old fandoms, feeling nostalgic and borderline schizophrenic all at the same time. ^_^
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