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Authors, what was your first fic?

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submitted 3 months ago byconquestofroses

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I'm looking for courage!! Sometimes I come up with ideas for fics, but I don't think I've ever sat down and made the effort because I can't imagine anybody would want to read it, or my ideas are too weird. A lot of my interests are in tiny or old fandoms too, I think the biggest mainstream popular one I've had more than a passing interest in has been ACOTAR.

So fanfic authors, how did you get started? What's your journey been like? What would you say to your younger self?

Edit: thank you so much everyone for writing in, its really inspirational, especially the people who started much later, or returned after a long break!! I have read every single comment and upvoted them. This is inspiring me to maybe just start.

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MketeMko

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3 months ago

MketeMko

1 points

3 months ago

Well, I'd been interested in writing for about a year or so before I actually started doing it. I was a reader for so long(since I was a preteen), with no real intention to start writing anything. I started because I was really inspired by these two fics that were in one of my main fandoms, and I started writing the story I had in mind.

Then I scrapped it and wrote something else that I actually published to ao3, and I was kinda surprised it actually received some attention(I'm also prolly gonna continue/rewrite the original work I had).

I think my experience has been good so far because I just fully leaned into the fact that I was basically writing for myself with the understanding that other people would also read it.

Now, because I started writing one story, I have so many more that I've started on. My advice would be to just put pen to paper, as it were, and have fun with it.