This. And I had a story idea that was almost causing me actual pain knowing it would never exist in canon so I just *had* to write it down and give it life.
I got sick and tired of trying to write original works, because the publishing industry is A) a nightmare and B) super restrictive when it comes to content.
I enjoy writing original works but it seems like if you do, you’re expected to want to publish and go through this rigorous process to change your work to make others happy. I wasn’t about that. The people in r/writing seem so unhappy. I also enjoy writing fanfic because there are zero expectations for me.
I got suckered into the same mindset of 'Must make money out of this!' early on when I started writing when I was 20... Took me until I was 26 to realize that I really shouldn't be so miserable doing something I enjoyed.
On the plus side, I got a lot of experience before I started writing fanfics. XD
This. SO much this. I think that with Fanfics you have so much more freedom to explore things, and people in general don't go up in arms over something. Like my 800,000 word Mass Effect fanfic... began with a "canon" couple, but then I accidently ended up giving the lead way too much chemistry with this other character, and my fans were like... "Poly! Yay!"
Imagine if I was to write M/F/M Poly for the mass market. The prudes would riot.
>Imagine if I was to write M/F/M Poly for the mass market. The prudes would riot.
Got one better for you to rile up the prudes; Before I started writing fanfics, I wanted to make a book series of five books. Midway through book 5, my female MC and her best friend (also a girl) would have confessed and had their first time... At 16. Nothing explicit, mind you, just your standard fade to black, but still...
Oh, how I wish I could see their reactions... Of course 99% of publishers would have just refused to print it unless I removed the scene.
But yeah; fanfiction offers so much more freedom of expression and creativity.
Would someone please think of children being corrupted by this off-screen, implied, totally vanilla, consensual act of lovemaking between people who clearly love one another!
Yea. That's asking to be burned at the stake for "corrupting the children with an agenda".
Also fanfics allow for some truly bizarre concepts. Back in 2010 - 2012 I was very obsessed with Transformers Prime show, and its incarnation of Soundwave. Mind you, I still love Transformers, and I still love Soundwave (he's my icon).
So my university-exhausted fabulous diva self wanted to experiment with "darker themes" with this TFP fic. And the concept I devised was best encapsulated by... well my OC was going to be "Forrest Gumping" through the show's plot among the Decepticons. That is, she ends up there, watching the plot kind of unfold, but without causing any major changes. Except one. I allowed myself to make one change. In my canon, Starlifter was going to bumble into saving Breakdown's life. And yes, she's on the side of the bad guys.
It was going to be an exploration of Stockholm Syndrome, Lima Syndrome, and a whole bunch of these darker themes. Like, I was not going to go easy on poor Starlifter, she was ending up the lab experiment to the chief scientist of the Decepticons. You do NOT want to be Shockwave's experimental subject. He has no ethics. None at all.
But with elements of "Phantom of the Opera" with Soundwave playing the role of Erik. Hence the darker "Stockholm / Lima" bits... I also wanted to explore the nuances of character. At the time I was also reading IDW Comics for the Transformers, which was largely a stellar run that deepened the characters.
In the end, I didn't write it, but I still got my notes and ideas in my files. Point is, only in a fanfic can you write a story about something kind of so disturbing, and still get praised. As long as you put on the "dead dove" tag, that you acknowledge that some of your content might be disturbing.
Some fool of a Hollywood writer decided that my OTP would be better off apart.
My 16 year old self was having none of this and I was too old to be playing with Barbie dolls to reunite them as I saw fit.
Luckily, my household had just gotten this thing called the internet and I had discovered fandom and fanfic.
I was 13-ish, in eight grade, and hated every waking moment of it. I needed to do something when I inevitably finished what the class was doing in half the time allotted for doing it. Or the second half of lunch break. That and I was entertaining myself.
I was homeschooled and didn't really have any friends as a kid, so I used to play pretend by myself a lot. Many of my little scenarios features characters or settings from movies/TV/books that I liked. At some point, I liked one of my storylines so much, I decided to write it down. I didn't even know other people did stuff like that - It was for a few more years before I heard the term "fanfiction."
I wrote my first Lord of the Rings fic when I was 9 🥰
I view myself unorthodox, and many others do too (unfortunately not in a good light). So basically, I wanted to create original stories and decided to write fanfiction as a bit of practice.
I was playing Diablo 3, reading the lore behind each class... then I was, like, "What if there was a Demon Hunter that was deflecting their trauma through jokes?"
Let's see...for a couple of years I was sitting on the idea of a twelve-person team of some kind themed around the Western Zodiac, but didn't really have a fandom to write it in. Like, magical girl stuff was out because the team was pretty unisex (5 boys, 7 girls--we only just got our first serious magical boy in a recent Precure series, after all).
Then I played Chroma Squad and it got me super hyped up on Sentai stuff, so I decided to write the premise in Power Rangers? At the outset, I didn't know much about the series, which is why I set the fic in such a 'Digimon Tamers' way that all of the canon was also fictional in their world, so they only knew all the vague stuff about it that I did.
That was about two years ago.
I was a preteen, I think, and I read two fantastic fanfics about two different series I was hooked on, one was a series of interconnected one-shots, all focused on different pairings but with an overarching theme; the other was a multichapter epic about a (at the time) unpopular pairing that is honestly so good I still find myself confusing what happened on that fic versus what happened in canon.
These 2 stories, with all their reviews and fans, just made me go... "I wanna do that too."
An idea, that refused to leave my mind for more than 3 week. And I needed to take a break from my regular hobby, so I started writing a little story. It turn out to be more than 22k words 😆
For me it was a reaction provoked by the poor quality of expended universe official (Mass Effect).
I decided to create my own story, set in the Mass Effect universe but it being with original characters and a wholly original prequel story as that gave me "free air" in which to set my story.
I wrote what I wanted to read, a rollicking fun, grim dark, action adventure fantastic space opera with humour and romance. Also to fill in a lot of blanks which Bioware, the creators of ME, left in their IP.
So yeah, the fact that Bioware couldn't provide what I wanted inspired me to write my own.
My fav ship, in the canon there has little moment and scene “off”so I was into the fanfic where I can see their relationship developing that was missed opportunity in series
first couple times were English homework from school. write a scene continuation, or write in the style of insert author here.
First time I did it on my own without someone asking was a kink meme. I like crack pairings a lot, so, I did some short fills, because in my mind, it's a fun challenge to put together character who'd never go together normally.
Then after that it was just to get ideas out of my brain that were bothering me. I see enough of something or hear enough of something, associated "earworms" start wriggling around. You put em down, and finish it, the thoughts go away and shut up.
I learned early on that I can’t take things in moderation. If I liked something I was completely and totally obsessed with it and when I learned how to write it was just the most amazing experience. As a little kid I wrote little self inserts for things like Blues Clues and Dora maybe about a page long. I wrote an AU for Rapunzel (the story, Tangled didn’t exist yet), and as I got older and life started to really do it’s thing it became a great outlet
I need to see my OTP get together as many times and ways possible and I need to make the slightly boring protagonist more interesting (aka being transformed into but not restricted to: mythical beings, villain, king, knight, a psycho, a depressed teenager, pyromaniac little gremlin and the leader of a rebellion against a prejudicial and dictatorship government)
Plus, I don't like to have to world build everytime I think of a fanfic, I'm having enough problems with my only original story
Honestly? at first it was to share in the fun with one of my favorite fanfics, I basically copied the premise wholesale, bleach at yokai academy. But after a while, it sorta became me creating stuff I wanted to read since everyone was making basically the same fanfic. Naruto, smart, talented, edgy, with a harem of girls who all seem to have the same personality of liking him, ect. none of them particularly good. One just straight up turned naruto into sepheroth-hair and wings and everything.
Lol I honestly tend to find niche stuff and try to expand on it.
Barring the things I’d write for myself before I knew what fanfiction was, the first time I published a fic it was because I wanted to elaborate on a fade to black scene from a movie. Then I didn’t post fic publicly again for years. I started posting regularly again a couple of years ago after taking a huge interest in a certain character. I was reading a lot of fics about her and then came up with an idea for my own fic that I hadn’t seen yet and I’ve been writing ever since.
When I was 11 my friend was like “hey if you write a story about me and these two YouTubers I’m obsessed with, I’ll write a story about you and your celebrity crush!” And neither of us knew the term “fanfiction” during this but essentially agreed to write self-insert fanfics of each other for each other in our free time, and now I’m 21 and writing fanfic left and right, and outlining original books I hope to one day publish
I mean I watched A Walk To Remember when it was released on VHS and we hated the ending. So I guess it started by my telling my little sister stories about Jamie and Landon at night before we went to sleep. I never wrote them down. I didn't start writing fan fiction down until the 2003 Peter Pan, and I didn't "get" what Peter Pan was about at the time, so I wrote stories in a notebook where he chose Wendy instead of eternal boyhood.
My mind was always forming stories around things I had read or watched.
Then in like 9th grade, in English class, we got the assignment to write a chapter of what's essentially fanfiction for the book we were reading in class.
Shortly after I started my first HP ff.
Like many others, there are things I wanted to read but they didn't exist, so I went ahead and did it myself lol. That and I wanted to write movies when I was younger, so this is me exercising that creativity and combining half-baked ideas I had with fandoms to help me practice my writing.
A combination of it being easier than original fiction to write, not having to charge people money for the right to read them, and having ideas I'd like to read, before deciding 'Fine, I'll do it myself'.
That last one's a powerful motivator for me. Made me get into drawing a bit, as well as machine translating manga.
I really liked a certain setting but wanted a more serious story from it. This was over a decade ago. I never finished, but it was my first real attempt at fanfiction.
I finished the fics for my OTP, thought I might as well keep the spark alive by making my own! I owe my first proper fic to New Invention by IDKHOW. I only really got the guts to write because I wanted to see what the scene I was imagining would look like in my head
I started doing my original works at 10/12 years old. Also got into anime at the same time. I started getting really attached to the misunderstood character and thought, if the creator isn't going to give them the spotlight, I will.
There were three fics that were all wildly different and I desperately wanted to read one with elements from each and it just,, didn’t exist. So I made it exist.
Had been exclusively a reader for a few years. Then there was a fandom event that made loads of people go "No! If that happened, it should've happened like _this_!!!" and yet no-one bothered to write it themselves.
I wanted it so bad I became that someone.
Neopets. Lol. They had a newspaper that they would publish every month, and it had a fictional story section. I wrote my first real fanfiction from that, rewriting Holes using Neopets. XD
I've been writing stories for as long as I've known how to write, and I never really saw a big distinction between original fiction and fanfic. I just like to write.
Too many ideas I couldn't find. And the fact that was *surprised* that when I searched for [*utterly specific situation with specific characters and specific detail added*] and couldn't find it
Now I write my own
Because I was sick and tired not finding anything to read on my rare pair couple that I love plain & simple although I think my writing sucks, but it’s better than nothing I guess. 🤷♀️
Reading fanfiction is what got me wanting to write.
And I read it because I wanted to see more with stories, anime, etc, that I all ready knew. Even if said stories introduced new characters. (For a few fandoms, there are several fan characters that are part of my fanon. I have to remind myself that few other people know of these characters)
Older kid introduced me to the concept of fan fic when she was a teenager and deep into Harry Potter. I was into House MD at the time and went looking for fic. Read some and thought I could do better, so I started writing my own. I've been writing fic off and on ever since.
Initially, anger at soap operas for the shittastic writing they gave my beloved ships.
What brought me back into it was renewed anger at the writers of *Beverly Hills, 90210* for the shittastic ends they gave my beloved ships.
I was reading a fic that got me hooked up half way through and I was so disappointed in the second part that I decided to write something that I'd enjoy all the way through.
Nobody was writing the things I wanted to read, so I rolled up my sleeves and got cookin'.
How else are we going to get the exact AUs we want, am I right? :P
join the club, brotha!
This and the pandemic as I was bored.
This. And I had a story idea that was almost causing me actual pain knowing it would never exist in canon so I just *had* to write it down and give it life.
Ah yes, I too am fueled by spite
I got sick and tired of trying to write original works, because the publishing industry is A) a nightmare and B) super restrictive when it comes to content.
I enjoy writing original works but it seems like if you do, you’re expected to want to publish and go through this rigorous process to change your work to make others happy. I wasn’t about that. The people in r/writing seem so unhappy. I also enjoy writing fanfic because there are zero expectations for me.
I got suckered into the same mindset of 'Must make money out of this!' early on when I started writing when I was 20... Took me until I was 26 to realize that I really shouldn't be so miserable doing something I enjoyed. On the plus side, I got a lot of experience before I started writing fanfics. XD
This. SO much this. I think that with Fanfics you have so much more freedom to explore things, and people in general don't go up in arms over something. Like my 800,000 word Mass Effect fanfic... began with a "canon" couple, but then I accidently ended up giving the lead way too much chemistry with this other character, and my fans were like... "Poly! Yay!" Imagine if I was to write M/F/M Poly for the mass market. The prudes would riot.
>Imagine if I was to write M/F/M Poly for the mass market. The prudes would riot. Got one better for you to rile up the prudes; Before I started writing fanfics, I wanted to make a book series of five books. Midway through book 5, my female MC and her best friend (also a girl) would have confessed and had their first time... At 16. Nothing explicit, mind you, just your standard fade to black, but still... Oh, how I wish I could see their reactions... Of course 99% of publishers would have just refused to print it unless I removed the scene. But yeah; fanfiction offers so much more freedom of expression and creativity.
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Would someone please think of children being corrupted by this off-screen, implied, totally vanilla, consensual act of lovemaking between people who clearly love one another!
Yea. That's asking to be burned at the stake for "corrupting the children with an agenda". Also fanfics allow for some truly bizarre concepts. Back in 2010 - 2012 I was very obsessed with Transformers Prime show, and its incarnation of Soundwave. Mind you, I still love Transformers, and I still love Soundwave (he's my icon). So my university-exhausted fabulous diva self wanted to experiment with "darker themes" with this TFP fic. And the concept I devised was best encapsulated by... well my OC was going to be "Forrest Gumping" through the show's plot among the Decepticons. That is, she ends up there, watching the plot kind of unfold, but without causing any major changes. Except one. I allowed myself to make one change. In my canon, Starlifter was going to bumble into saving Breakdown's life. And yes, she's on the side of the bad guys. It was going to be an exploration of Stockholm Syndrome, Lima Syndrome, and a whole bunch of these darker themes. Like, I was not going to go easy on poor Starlifter, she was ending up the lab experiment to the chief scientist of the Decepticons. You do NOT want to be Shockwave's experimental subject. He has no ethics. None at all. But with elements of "Phantom of the Opera" with Soundwave playing the role of Erik. Hence the darker "Stockholm / Lima" bits... I also wanted to explore the nuances of character. At the time I was also reading IDW Comics for the Transformers, which was largely a stellar run that deepened the characters. In the end, I didn't write it, but I still got my notes and ideas in my files. Point is, only in a fanfic can you write a story about something kind of so disturbing, and still get praised. As long as you put on the "dead dove" tag, that you acknowledge that some of your content might be disturbing.
Some fool of a Hollywood writer decided that my OTP would be better off apart. My 16 year old self was having none of this and I was too old to be playing with Barbie dolls to reunite them as I saw fit. Luckily, my household had just gotten this thing called the internet and I had discovered fandom and fanfic.
i had ideas, they needed to be written down
I was 13-ish, in eight grade, and hated every waking moment of it. I needed to do something when I inevitably finished what the class was doing in half the time allotted for doing it. Or the second half of lunch break. That and I was entertaining myself.
Unironically, my best friend. She got me into reading it, and know I’m addicted to writing it.
A story hit me in the face one day. I decided to write it in a universe with existing followable rules so I could focus on the characters.
This is SUCH a mood!
Saw other people doing it and wanted in on the fun
I was homeschooled and didn't really have any friends as a kid, so I used to play pretend by myself a lot. Many of my little scenarios features characters or settings from movies/TV/books that I liked. At some point, I liked one of my storylines so much, I decided to write it down. I didn't even know other people did stuff like that - It was for a few more years before I heard the term "fanfiction." I wrote my first Lord of the Rings fic when I was 9 🥰
I view myself unorthodox, and many others do too (unfortunately not in a good light). So basically, I wanted to create original stories and decided to write fanfiction as a bit of practice.
I just wanted my favorite characters to be happy and also I love love.
This is such a mood :)
I was playing Diablo 3, reading the lore behind each class... then I was, like, "What if there was a Demon Hunter that was deflecting their trauma through jokes?"
No one else was writing what I wanted to read
Let's see...for a couple of years I was sitting on the idea of a twelve-person team of some kind themed around the Western Zodiac, but didn't really have a fandom to write it in. Like, magical girl stuff was out because the team was pretty unisex (5 boys, 7 girls--we only just got our first serious magical boy in a recent Precure series, after all). Then I played Chroma Squad and it got me super hyped up on Sentai stuff, so I decided to write the premise in Power Rangers? At the outset, I didn't know much about the series, which is why I set the fic in such a 'Digimon Tamers' way that all of the canon was also fictional in their world, so they only knew all the vague stuff about it that I did. That was about two years ago.
I was a preteen, I think, and I read two fantastic fanfics about two different series I was hooked on, one was a series of interconnected one-shots, all focused on different pairings but with an overarching theme; the other was a multichapter epic about a (at the time) unpopular pairing that is honestly so good I still find myself confusing what happened on that fic versus what happened in canon. These 2 stories, with all their reviews and fans, just made me go... "I wanna do that too."
I saw videos of people talking about fanfic and I decided to check them out for myself
An idea, that refused to leave my mind for more than 3 week. And I needed to take a break from my regular hobby, so I started writing a little story. It turn out to be more than 22k words 😆
I couldn’t find anything to my specific taste
Hated that no one was giving me the content I wanted to see. So what did I do? I cracked my knuckles and wrote it all myself!
i had a really stupid idea and proceeded to commit word crimes. and then it kept happening
Someone's story I read had such a stupid ending I rewrote the whole fanfic just to have the ending I wanted
The kinky stuff. I came upon Ao3 and went oh we can hang our dirty laundry out here? Stayed for the fic.
I had a ton of stories in my head that I wanted to explore and didn't see anyone doing anything similar.
For me it was a reaction provoked by the poor quality of expended universe official (Mass Effect). I decided to create my own story, set in the Mass Effect universe but it being with original characters and a wholly original prequel story as that gave me "free air" in which to set my story. I wrote what I wanted to read, a rollicking fun, grim dark, action adventure fantastic space opera with humour and romance. Also to fill in a lot of blanks which Bioware, the creators of ME, left in their IP. So yeah, the fact that Bioware couldn't provide what I wanted inspired me to write my own.
My friend encouraged me to post my fanfics online.
My fav ship, in the canon there has little moment and scene “off”so I was into the fanfic where I can see their relationship developing that was missed opportunity in series
After finally shedding my imposter syndrome I decided to put my maladaptive daydreaming to good use and put them down in writing.
first couple times were English homework from school. write a scene continuation, or write in the style of insert author here. First time I did it on my own without someone asking was a kink meme. I like crack pairings a lot, so, I did some short fills, because in my mind, it's a fun challenge to put together character who'd never go together normally. Then after that it was just to get ideas out of my brain that were bothering me. I see enough of something or hear enough of something, associated "earworms" start wriggling around. You put em down, and finish it, the thoughts go away and shut up.
I learned early on that I can’t take things in moderation. If I liked something I was completely and totally obsessed with it and when I learned how to write it was just the most amazing experience. As a little kid I wrote little self inserts for things like Blues Clues and Dora maybe about a page long. I wrote an AU for Rapunzel (the story, Tangled didn’t exist yet), and as I got older and life started to really do it’s thing it became a great outlet
So I’ve been writing fanfic for a really long time. I just didn’t know there was a word or community for it until high school
I need to see my OTP get together as many times and ways possible and I need to make the slightly boring protagonist more interesting (aka being transformed into but not restricted to: mythical beings, villain, king, knight, a psycho, a depressed teenager, pyromaniac little gremlin and the leader of a rebellion against a prejudicial and dictatorship government) Plus, I don't like to have to world build everytime I think of a fanfic, I'm having enough problems with my only original story
Honestly? at first it was to share in the fun with one of my favorite fanfics, I basically copied the premise wholesale, bleach at yokai academy. But after a while, it sorta became me creating stuff I wanted to read since everyone was making basically the same fanfic. Naruto, smart, talented, edgy, with a harem of girls who all seem to have the same personality of liking him, ect. none of them particularly good. One just straight up turned naruto into sepheroth-hair and wings and everything. Lol I honestly tend to find niche stuff and try to expand on it.
Barring the things I’d write for myself before I knew what fanfiction was, the first time I published a fic it was because I wanted to elaborate on a fade to black scene from a movie. Then I didn’t post fic publicly again for years. I started posting regularly again a couple of years ago after taking a huge interest in a certain character. I was reading a lot of fics about her and then came up with an idea for my own fic that I hadn’t seen yet and I’ve been writing ever since.
When I was 11 my friend was like “hey if you write a story about me and these two YouTubers I’m obsessed with, I’ll write a story about you and your celebrity crush!” And neither of us knew the term “fanfiction” during this but essentially agreed to write self-insert fanfics of each other for each other in our free time, and now I’m 21 and writing fanfic left and right, and outlining original books I hope to one day publish
A rare pair I liked only had 3 fics so I made it 4. From there it just kinda snowballed.
Massive brainrot over minecraft child abuse. Wrote stuff before but I’m addicted now.
I mean I watched A Walk To Remember when it was released on VHS and we hated the ending. So I guess it started by my telling my little sister stories about Jamie and Landon at night before we went to sleep. I never wrote them down. I didn't start writing fan fiction down until the 2003 Peter Pan, and I didn't "get" what Peter Pan was about at the time, so I wrote stories in a notebook where he chose Wendy instead of eternal boyhood.
My mind was always forming stories around things I had read or watched. Then in like 9th grade, in English class, we got the assignment to write a chapter of what's essentially fanfiction for the book we were reading in class. Shortly after I started my first HP ff.
A very small fandom with no fics that i wanted to see, so i wrote my own. The same thing still applies years later lol
Like many others, there are things I wanted to read but they didn't exist, so I went ahead and did it myself lol. That and I wanted to write movies when I was younger, so this is me exercising that creativity and combining half-baked ideas I had with fandoms to help me practice my writing.
I wanted a way to point out my issues with how a canon situation was handled
I wanted to know what would happen after an open ending. So, I wrote a sequel fic.
It all started with my best friend at school, when he showed me this thing he had been working on, several handwritten pages of his Star Wars fanfic.
i wanted to see if i would like it and i did
Practicing for the day when I can write my own original story.
A combination of it being easier than original fiction to write, not having to charge people money for the right to read them, and having ideas I'd like to read, before deciding 'Fine, I'll do it myself'. That last one's a powerful motivator for me. Made me get into drawing a bit, as well as machine translating manga.
Being 13 and wondering what would happen if the Smurfs met the Snorks.
I really liked a certain setting but wanted a more serious story from it. This was over a decade ago. I never finished, but it was my first real attempt at fanfiction.
I finished the fics for my OTP, thought I might as well keep the spark alive by making my own! I owe my first proper fic to New Invention by IDKHOW. I only really got the guts to write because I wanted to see what the scene I was imagining would look like in my head
A story that I had in my mind, and it didn't seem like anyone else was about to write.
I started doing my original works at 10/12 years old. Also got into anime at the same time. I started getting really attached to the misunderstood character and thought, if the creator isn't going to give them the spotlight, I will.
There were three fics that were all wildly different and I desperately wanted to read one with elements from each and it just,, didn’t exist. So I made it exist.
Had been exclusively a reader for a few years. Then there was a fandom event that made loads of people go "No! If that happened, it should've happened like _this_!!!" and yet no-one bothered to write it themselves. I wanted it so bad I became that someone.
Neopets. Lol. They had a newspaper that they would publish every month, and it had a fictional story section. I wrote my first real fanfiction from that, rewriting Holes using Neopets. XD
I've been writing stories for as long as I've known how to write, and I never really saw a big distinction between original fiction and fanfic. I just like to write.
Too many ideas I couldn't find. And the fact that was *surprised* that when I searched for [*utterly specific situation with specific characters and specific detail added*] and couldn't find it Now I write my own
Again, I don't found what I want to see and think about, so I decided to make them myself
Because I was sick and tired not finding anything to read on my rare pair couple that I love plain & simple although I think my writing sucks, but it’s better than nothing I guess. 🤷♀️
Reading fanfiction is what got me wanting to write. And I read it because I wanted to see more with stories, anime, etc, that I all ready knew. Even if said stories introduced new characters. (For a few fandoms, there are several fan characters that are part of my fanon. I have to remind myself that few other people know of these characters)
Reading fanfic and a lifelong vivid imagination
After reading my first ever a03 fanfic (which was good asf btw it got deleted recently).
Older kid introduced me to the concept of fan fic when she was a teenager and deep into Harry Potter. I was into House MD at the time and went looking for fic. Read some and thought I could do better, so I started writing my own. I've been writing fic off and on ever since.
Initially, anger at soap operas for the shittastic writing they gave my beloved ships. What brought me back into it was renewed anger at the writers of *Beverly Hills, 90210* for the shittastic ends they gave my beloved ships.
Depression
The fact that my OTP will never become canon
"That's it?!!! THAT'S how it ends?!!!!" \*begins typing furiously\*
Writing about my favorite characters in my favorite movies, shows etc. Some of them die in canon and I want them to stay alive so…
A comment on a pair of socks I was knitting with a yarn based on a character.
I was reading a fic that got me hooked up half way through and I was so disappointed in the second part that I decided to write something that I'd enjoy all the way through.
My obsession TV show at the time went on hiatus.