It's interesting to hear other people's journeys to this point!
I've always been fannish, ever since my teens (Starsky and Hutch being a very early influence, as I remember) but my writing was never fanfiction. Then in 2002 I started frequenting a LOTR message board, and discovered fanfiction. Shortly after that a friend on the board introduced me to slash - it amuses me now to remember how I felt about it at first, part squicked and part fascinated in a sort of guilty 'this must be wrong but I'm finding it really hot' way. The rest is history, you know where I'm at with it now... :)
When I write I always know where I'm going. Often the last paragraph or line is what sparks the whole story for me. Then I get the first line, and the rest is a journey to get from one to the other. I have to be inspired, though, which is why I rarely enter fic challenges, because writing to order pretty much doesn't work for me.
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I've always been fannish, ever since my teens (Starsky and Hutch being a very early influence, as I remember) but my writing was never fanfiction. Then in 2002 I started frequenting a LOTR message board, and discovered fanfiction. Shortly after that a friend on the board introduced me to slash - it amuses me now to remember how I felt about it at first, part squicked and part fascinated in a sort of guilty 'this must be wrong but I'm finding it really hot' way. The rest is history, you know where I'm at with it now... :)
When I write I always know where I'm going. Often the last paragraph or line is what sparks the whole story for me. Then I get the first line, and the rest is a journey to get from one to the other. I have to be inspired, though, which is why I rarely enter fic challenges, because writing to order pretty much doesn't work for me.