What do your friends think about you writing fanfics? or do they not know at all? I know lots of people write with their friends and I just don't understand it, if my friends knew about this I'd probably being killed which I guess makes me a closet writer :p
So what about you guys?
only a few friends know, and they personally don't like to read it but they don't say or do anything. i don't know i think it;s something i would rather keep from some. like LASER said i would probably be killed.
Oh I'm studying to be an author, they know I started writing fanfics and I still do.
My friends kick ass on this front because they don't care, it's a hobby, a passion if you will, and they accept it. As long as I don't go on and on about it XD.
What is the big deal with any of us being writers? So what if it's fanfiction? We are PUBLISHED WRITERS. That should be a source of pride for us, shouldn't it? Why would there be a need to hide it?
I'm 39 years old and I write Naruto yaoi. Of all my friends, four know the truth; of those, two are male, and both of them have read my fanfiction. One of them is a true creative type and sees past the man-on-man thing to the quintessential structure of what I have created. We can talk about it all openly. I am grateful to God that I am able to do that. Trust me, it goes a long way.
We are all true creative types. This negative stigma that attaches itself to fanfiction sticks in my craw.
one of my friends is also a fanfic writer.
sometimes we do some major random collab thing altogether (some people write the others just read.
and rest doesn't mind ^_^.
but I do know some people how think writers have no life, cuz' we write stories for fun -_-"
That sucks for some of you guys
All my friends know I write, and they love to read my stories and are forever telling me how great they are when I say they are rubbish
At first I was shy about letting others see my work and only told a few close friends, and when I finally let a friend read one she printed it off and took it into my english teacher who read it over and told me that if I keep working on my stories I could be a great writer (I was about 13 at the time) and asked to view more of my work
And my confidence started to build from there
Now everyone I know knows that I write, im kind of like 'Becky the girl thats always writing a story'
although I only let close friends see stories
My fanfics are cheesy and I know that they are rubbish, but its just for fun, my better stories are on fictionpress
if it wasnt for my friends support, I would never have started writing in the first place
xxx
Well, I only ever write Maximum Ride fan fics so far, and none of my friends have ever read any of them, in fact, I doubt they've even HEARD of it. Mainly because they're bigger in America, and, hey, NONE OF MY FRIENDS ARE FROM THERE. Of course, I'm not American either. Maximum Ride was recommanded to me by a girl I know. But she's not one for reading and she's not the kind of person I would see writing her own book. Maybe if I wrote a Twilight fan fic I would tell them, 'cos I've got some friends who are seriously mad about Twilight.
So basically none of my friends know I have a Fan-Fiction account.
My friends know i write fan-fic, partly coz i'm always saying how much i hate writers block in the middle of some amazingly awesome idea i have for a new fan-fic. they don't mind, they know i love to write and i constantly do well in english, writing essays and short stories, so they kinda figured out that i would.
My friends know, some of them think I'm a geek I know, but none of them would ever tell me that I'm stupid becuase they know its a passion for me.
Some of them have read my work, and have said that they like it, and my boyfriend reads all my stuff, even the slash :P
I'm well supported for sure. I love my friends!!!
Only one of my friends knows I write fanfics because I decided to tell him seeing as he's just as random and crazy as I am and we always get into conversations about yaoi (and yet he still claims he's not gay...) There are also two other close friends of mine who know about my yaoi/yuri/hentai and Bleach addiction but not the ff account. My other friends know that I'm a book nerd and constantly get good marks for english essays and such, they think I'm a total geek but they don't mind. I think they would be a little weirded out about the fanfics though, the only book they have ever managed to make themselves read is Twilight and they hate all the essays and stories we write in english.
Closet writer I guess.. it's a shame...
None of my friends know. I'm not open about myself in general, so thats probably why.
Know? Hell, I'm using 'em as my betas, and I think I melted one of them's brain when they got round to the incident with the interdimensional invasion and the weaponised Swahili.
Two of my closest friends know, so I guess I'm not a closet fanfic writer... Honestly, most of my friends wouldn't care because we're an odd bunch anyway. Which is why I'm friends with them. :D
my only friend knows
and i have her read my funny stories [she doesnt like drama and angst and such so my nice funny stories and lemons do the magic]
then almost all my internet friends know about me writing ff
and few of my ex-co-workers knew about it.
I have a couple of friends who write fanfic too, but I don't hide it or anything. If any of my friends were interested, I'd tell them more about it. As it is, I don't think they're all that bothered
people know I write, but no friends or family understand what's so good about this activity. they don't even read any fanfic. that's why I need my net friends :)
i'm totally in sync with laser.
If any of my friends knew,,,,,,
closet writer all the way.
Shall we re-define the term 'coming out?'
maybe when i'm old enough to buy a car... then i could escape.
:D
wow i think it's so weird that people talk to their friends about it.
It's so cool :)
~E~
xxx
My friends dont know... however ever since i started writing on fanfiction I have made friends on there and they are very understanding (obviously). I guess some people are lucky to have understanding friends... whislt others would find it a little weird with all this stuff.
you guys are so lucky, if I ever want want feedback on a story I have to post it on FF.net and hop someone reviews it
I really wouldn't any of my friends to know about it to be honest, I have a really weird writing style and I can't imagine them being very supportive of it... assholes. I spent the first few months on FF.net super paranoid that someone I knew might find my stories, I'm still pretty paranoid about it actually
Sometimes I can ask my friend (who also watches a lot of stuff) to read them.
I can also read some out (depending on content) in my Creative Writing club.
But I feel that that may be a bit embarrassing so I generally just use ff.net
I 'came out' to my new amazing friend! We were in Waterstones, and I was showing her City of Bones and was telling her about my favourite characters and how they're gay, and she was like 'slash?'.
It ended up with us blocking a isle as we sat chatting about our favourite pairings and websites. I tend to write and post more than her, but it's awesome having someone to talk to about it.
I've only known her for about 2 months but I feel so much closer to her as she knows me more than my other friends do. <333333
(aw sappy post! XD)
lol my friends call me a weirdo beuse Imake stories of things they never heard of =w=
Samurai warriors is one of the many...many stories i have done >_>;
it's very hard to find people who like to read the same kinda fanfiction you do, that is, in real life. like, amongst friends, almost impossible!
I don't think I've come out of the closet to anyone I know - although I've met up with a number of people that I've known online who know about it. That's not really the same, huh?
Their response would probably be 'lolwut? ... ... ...' and then they'd forget all about it/
I'm a very lucky person. From eighth through twelfth grades, I knew six people who had FFN accounts at various points, and even though we weren't necessarily interested in the same fandoms/pairings/characters/whatever (and that most of them were pretty awful), we could at least talk about it. Nowadays, my roommate, while I don't think she actually writes fanfic, at least reads it.
But yeah, in general life, I'm pretty closed-mouthed about it (the fact that my fandom is super-embarassing might have something to do with that). It's strange that fanfic still has such a stigma attached to it. I'm an "out an proud" comic book reader and D&D player, but I don't tell anyone about my fanfic.
Me, I'm very open about it, because, well... when you're writing something that's going to be around two hundred thousand words when complete, what's the point if you can't take a little bit of pride in it? It helps that I can confidently say that I'm not adhering to most - if any - of the fanfiction cliches. I'm just trying to write a good story in a manner that has several self-imposed limitations... in this case, the necessity to adhere to the 'feel' and background of about a half-dozen fictional universes at once.
A couple of my friends know I write stories but they're not really interested in it and so I can't really discuss my stories with them. none of my family know either, they'd probably fall over with shock that I can write more than three pages, lol
Kiki
A have a very understanding frend from America actually, she just moved back from Buffalo. I tell her everythng about my fanficsbut while I have other friends who like anime/manga, I've never told them. Especially since all mine are yaoi.
Not many of my friends do, but since my roommate is also a big fan of one of my fandoms, he's helped me with a couple ideas.
I tell my friends about it, but they don't really get it. I don't share anything about my OCs though. That's embarrassing. Still, I put drabbles and WIPs on my myspace and facebook, so I guess some of them see it.
Only one of my friends know and that came about by accident. One night my mum was drunk and me and him were discussing Naruto and my mum goes "Oh is that the one where they're gay?" completely seriously. The conversation froze and I attempted to dig myself back out of the hole but in the end I told him - it wasn't so bad, he actually said he saw where I was coming from with NaruSasu! I couldn't believe it. But I've never actually chosen to tell any of my friends. Too scary! I don't have many real friends which I can trust with this.
Xx..xX
Lol, I'm pretty open about it cus they know its just a way for me to keep writing, to practice the techniques they teach us is uni (cus i actually study Creative Writing) and its only wierd if you get into SERIOUS fandom, like, wearing the clothes, having ALL the posters and the crazy fan things they sell on the net, and you write to tell the world how much you love whatever it is ur into.
But most of the time it doesn't exactly come up in conversation much.
Oh dear, i wonder what My Immortal tells her friends...
>>33 >"Oh dear, i wonder what My Immortal tells her friends..."
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
I know a few people who are into fanfiction, and I talk about it with them regularly. I don't exactly pronounce it to the world, but I'm not embarrassed by it, either.
well, i tell all my friends to go onto FanFAic and read and review some of the awesomme stories i have read and written. i know my friend Hannah actually writes stories :)
I don't think there's a problem with fanfiction, but some of my friends hate it for an incomprehensible reason I shall never even endeavor to understand. My friend Akai-M and I both are crazy over manga/anime, so I found the fanfiction site and got her onto it. I tell my other friends nothing much about it; they know I'm obsessed anyway.
You can try reading either my or Akai-M's fanfics and see JUST how nuts we are over it.
C.
Heh - there's a pair of girls I know who write fanfic, but don't know that I do. I don't know what they write, either, but I'm almost certain that at least one of them is a yaoi fangirl, from the way she keeps trying to get me to play tonsil hockey with her male best friend. D:
I've considered trying to pry the info out of them, and confess about my own scrawlings, but the price may be too high. Imagine if they forced me to write endless reams of yaoi for them when I should be calling people I dislike naughty words in public! Horror!
Most friends know i write fanfictions just not on what lol A few have read them; like the ones who rigth or are closer to me. I know a few who dont get why i do it. "But its not your story, your basically doing stupid things to theirs"
I tell my friends about them, my fanfiction is actually based on me and my two best friends!
my (closer) friends read the ffiction, but they dont seem keen on readin
quick question; i noted the blue names have direct links to their fanfic pages, is that what the 'link' thing on our comment box here is for?
Blindfirekiller, just talking from my perspective, if my best friend was writing fanfiction about me, I would think its a bit wierd, and im actually into fanfiction! This may be why.
None of my friends know I write fan fiction. Though, to be honest, they don't know much about what I do at home.
@Indie - the link boxes can be used to put any link in you want, fanfiction, deviantart, youtube, myspace, facebook etc. although some people use it to let people e-mail them.
My friends and my classmates know I write fanfics. Only my bestest friends know that I write for The Secret Show, but the rest doesn't know what I write. =D I don't really mind it, my internet friends know it and that's more than enough :)
>>41 as long as you put the full URL with the Http:// thing in front of it sends the others to the webpage you have put.
if there is no http:// then it is automatically recognized as an email address by the site
careful the Http:// thing to be one single time in the box
if it is twice the link wont work
so if you have http://http:// then delete the one of them
Most of my friends know I write fanfiction, though it drives them nuts because I talk about it all the time. Me and my closest friend are helping each other out with our separate stories, though apart from that I don't really get my friends involved in fanfiction that much
Some of my friends know I write, most are supportive, some also write, and a few don't understand, but if it makes you happy you shouldn't let other people's oerceptions ruin your enjoyment I feel.
Some of my friends know I write, most are supportive, some also write, and a few don't understand, but if it makes you happy you shouldn't let other people's perceptions ruin your enjoyment I feel.
Only three of my friends know I write Fanfiction, and two of them adore me for it, but the other one can't understand what possesses me to do it.
But then again, she dosen't get what I see in anime boys either ;)
Only three of my friends know I write Fanfiction, and two of them adore me for it, but the other one can't understand what possesses me to do it.
But then again, she dosen't get what I see in anime boys either ;)
My mates dont know i write ff, its not like i think they'd reject me if i told them, its more that fanfic is my personal thing, and i can just turn away from real life and absorb myself in it, and nobody i actually know can interupt and ask stupid questions xD
One or two of my friends know I write fanfiction, some of them I ask to check over my grammar and spelling.
But I don't really tell people who aren't into anime (I (L) anime fanfic ;D) cause they would think I'm a freak, and I can't take being claled names, I'm stressed enough as it is.
However, I talk to some of my friends at school about the friends I talk to only, like Alex, Saa and Dani, so they know I talk to people not in my country XD
My friends know i write it. Out of the five of us i tend to write the most of it.
One of my friends writes it ocasiionaly (although it's lemons) so when two of us read it, the next day is kinda awkward if we mention it.
Two of my mother friends write it and despite only updating every four or so months, i have to say that their writing is some of the best i've read (and i don't say that just cos their friends).
I sent oneof my friends a story because she wanted to read it and now she writes too. Her and another of my friends write and we sometimes do crazy crossovers but we all read each others stuff so it's great.
All my friends know that I write and most write fanfics too. Some in English, other in French, so we can help each other, it's pretty cool.
I actually have a friend I met on FFN - she was the first person to review my first story.
And my mother knows about my other original one and she asked me to read it - though she started correcting it, so I took it back. ^^
Well, most of my friends online or personal know that I write. The ones not online think I spend too much time on it, and that I don't have enough time for them anymore. -rolls eyes-
@ Bola > Tell them to get on the internet!^^
Update, today a friend told me I was a total nutcase because I write weird, sadistic and bloody (that much?...) fanfics. Poor thing, she never saw Mrs. Hyde me.
A lot of my friends know and really don't care. Others get curious and read, they quote them back to me at my own embarrassment, because I go bright red when anything sex-related that I write is mentioned.
Then I have my boyfriend who is my beta-reader XD
My really best friends know that I write fanfictions and they were fine with that. In fact, they think it's kinda funny that I write something like that.
My classmates know it as well, although they don't know I write for a small fandom. Some of them love to read fanfictions (most of them love Twilight) so they don't really care and they are a little bit surprised that I write fanfics as well.
only one of my friends know, and thats only because i found out she did it first. my other friends wouldnt understand my need to read and write dark fics.
Mine just make sure that I put them in it!
Closet writer. Although there are some people who also read and write fan fiction, although I haven't told anyone that I write it but say that I read it! I think that's because it's all seriously weird Harry Potter stuff, like super AU...
Closet writer. Although there are some people who also read and write fan fiction, although I haven't told anyone that I write it but say that I read it! I think that's because it's all seriously weird Harry Potter stuff, like super AU...
All my friends know I write fanfiction, so I guess that means I'm out of the fanfiction closet. At first they were kind of skeptical, but I suppose that's to be expected. My best friend is very supportive though :] Once I'd shown her was fanfiction was really all about she got really into it, and now she reviews my fics and nags me for updates :L x
My best friend knows and reads. (Thank god for her)
My parents don't give a shit and say its a waste of time.
sigh
I have been a closet- fanfic writer and reader for quite a while, untill my puberty came to an end and I gained a little confidence and hell, I think nerds like me are awesome! Although people are still in denial about the fact that I'm a nerd... I keep telling them... they don't believe me. Bastards.
I have always been a writer. first in Dutch then the closet of English opened for me. It was like a dream come true. My best friend Paulina loves my stories and she askes me for help when she wants to write a peom for her boyfriend in English. Sweet right? Now the problem is I want te write everything in English instead of Dutch XD. And I'm the English Nerd of my class. When we have English and the teacher askes something I answer everything. So he told me start reading english books in his class. How cool is that?! I read all of Jane Austen. And Horse Whisperer.
>>67 Haha! I feel your pain. Everything sounds way better in English.
Like this one: Ik hou van je/I love you. I know it's corny, but the latter sounds best, doesn't it??
Or this one: Ik geef je een koekje/I'll give you a cookie.
XD
Sorry... I could go on and on and on
and on.\
And on...
Well, I didn't tell them but they know.
I told them it's another way to use your knowledge of English or whatever language you read/write.
Also, it's fun to be able to share it with others.
Also, for me it's a way to practice stories, to make sure they get through to people like I wanted it.
Still, they're not really enthuasiastic about it, neither am I obsessed with it, so it's just another 'weird occupation' for me like they say!! ^^
ps: they do approve it!!
My best friend and her boyfriend have actually proofread my stories and like it. But most people I tell look at my weirdly, including my parents. They still accept it though. :)