30 Days of Fanfic meme

I'd already spotted someone else on my friendslist doing this meme and thought it sounded interesting (more interesting than some that do the rounds, imho) but wanted to start it on the first of the month; apparently nakeisha had the same idea...

1 – How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote for? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?

Sheer bloody-minded arrogance, I think. I was reading Stargate SG-1 fic at the time, having stumbled across fanfic as a concept just a few months earlier and then got sucked into SG-1 in a big big way, before I decided I could do much better than a good chunk of what I was reading.

So I started to write, gen initially, and then within weeks of that I found myself collaborating on what was meant to be an on-list slash round robin but which ended up being a two-hander (oo-er matron) between myself and Jennifer Lyon and then I was in the Dark Side proper. Not that this stopped me still writing gen, when the mood struck.

For me I think what attracted me to SG-1 as a fandom was that this was around season 2 when the universe available to write in was pretty much unlimited, with very little having been messed about with by TPTB. Now, I appreciate the wonders of a closed canon and the delights of not worrying about being Jossed at every turn, but then it seemed like an exciting merry-go-round! ;)