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alexcat ([personal profile] alexcat) wrote2020-01-19 12:00 pm

Day 10 - Snowflake Challenge

Challenge #10

In your own space, talk About A Creator/Someone Who Inspired You. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.



I don't think I even knew that fanfiction was a thing when I started writing it. I certainly had not read other people's work at all. I didn't read other fanfiction until the Tolkien fandom and I honestly don't remember anyone as an 'influence' there either. I tended to be more inspired by writers like Stephen King. When I read Annie Proulx and later Flannery O'Connor, those were my a-ha moments in writing. Those were the creators I wanted to write like.

Theban Band did some art that was influential in that they inspired plot bunnies.



seleneheart: (beautiful things -theoxymoron)

[personal profile] seleneheart 2020-01-19 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, heck yeah, Theban Band! So many plot bunnies!
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[personal profile] siberian_skys 2020-01-19 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Theban Band. I miss those days.
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[personal profile] spikedluv 2020-01-20 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
A-ha moments are so important! Thanks for sharing this.
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[personal profile] kerk_hiraeth 2020-01-22 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
Depending on what criteria you use the first fanfiction was written something like fifty years ago and, though I was unware of it, I probably wrote my first stories when I should have been paying attention in school about forty-five years ago. I think I was aware of fanfiction by the time I would have been of college age, but the first I read, other than my own; which was Blake's 7 back then, would have been at my first Star Trek convention in the mid-eighties.