I am just LOLing my friend. I'd never heard of fan fic in 1994 when I got online for the first time. I was ehhh... old enough to have driven to Star Wars in 1977. I began writing epic Star Wars after the ultimate hubris, "I can do better than THAT."
I have conservatively written 1.5 million words since then. Yep. And my husband has no clue. Mostly. He's a little more aware now than he used to be but basically, as the saying says on my LJ, I've been hiding fandom in the underwear drawer since 1977. My spawn is more aware than the spousal unit because the spawn understand the Internet.
When I went back to fic -- Narnia -- in 2009, I didn't tell my old fandom friends about the new fandom friends. I had a tag that said, "It's better that they think you are writing Twilight porn than know you are writing Narnia." I made myself an icon: Doctor Prescribes Hormone Replacement Therapy. Read smut.
At this point, I am FAR closer to the age of retirement than the age of legal drinking.
All this to say, you are not alone, welcome from an old crone, and as to why, well, at any age, we need our creative outlets amidst work and car pools, be it dancing, singing, gardening, baking, playing an instrument, knitting, crafting, or writing. For so many, writing is work. for others it is a joy and of particular value is the community that develops around fic, the modern version of chatting over the back fence.
OK, speaking of, I'm off to the daily sports activity car pool.
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Date: 2014-12-09 08:54 pm (UTC)I have conservatively written 1.5 million words since then. Yep. And my husband has no clue. Mostly. He's a little more aware now than he used to be but basically, as the saying says on my LJ, I've been hiding fandom in the underwear drawer since 1977. My spawn is more aware than the spousal unit because the spawn understand the Internet.
When I went back to fic -- Narnia -- in 2009, I didn't tell my old fandom friends about the new fandom friends. I had a tag that said, "It's better that they think you are writing Twilight porn than know you are writing Narnia." I made myself an icon: Doctor Prescribes Hormone Replacement Therapy. Read smut.
At this point, I am FAR closer to the age of retirement than the age of legal drinking.
All this to say, you are not alone, welcome from an old crone, and as to why, well, at any age, we need our creative outlets amidst work and car pools, be it dancing, singing, gardening, baking, playing an instrument, knitting, crafting, or writing. For so many, writing is work. for others it is a joy and of particular value is the community that develops around fic, the modern version of chatting over the back fence.
OK, speaking of, I'm off to the daily sports activity car pool.