I have often been asked that question and people are amazed when I say that I am so far out of the closet about writing fanfic it is unbelievable.
It confuses me why people are embarrassed about writing fanfiction?
My brother helps me with ideas and we have written a story together. My dad gives me story ideas. My whole family talks to random strangers about it and their friends (don't ask me how that comes up).
Most of my friends know I write and my closest friends on the internet most of them are writers.
Then of course there is my best friend Kate who reads everything I write.
I babble about it at conventions and signing events and have met some friends who look at my livejournal.
So what about you guys?????? Are you in or out
I announce new chapters on facebook g.
Everyone knows that I write. But no one knows WHAT I write about. Not the kinds of things that are family-friendly.
I'm a closet writer. It's just not something a really share with my friends, they're not into writing and that kind of stuff so I just chose to keep it to myself. It would be kind of awkward talking to my friends about my stories
For the most part in. None of my friends are into writing, so it just doesn't come up.
Out like Lady Macbeth's spot. Have to get my betas from somewhere, after all.
most of the ppl around me know that I write.
I don't hide it. there is a link of my FF account in FB and twiter and myspace accounts and also as a signature in my forum accounts
most of my online friends have either read or know what I write.
Out, i dont do closets. My family really arent bothered, for one thing they have different internet browsing habits. My sisters only interested in her social networks, my mother is devoted to internet comparison shopping and the rest of the family arent interested in fanfics, they arent great readers sadly.
Well, my family know I write fan fiction. They're not interested at all, mind, but they know.
As for my friends... Are you kidding me? None of them are readers by any stretch, and I'm already the geek of the group. If only because my vocabulary extends beyond LOL and LMAO, but I digress. Never mind that no one I know has even heard of Final Fantasy XII(my fandom), or even FF.
That said, I think they're getting a tad suspicious about the fact that I'm always busy, yet I've never done anything interesting when they ask me what I've done over the weekend. At least it's easy to sidetrack them.
The subject doesn't really come up around me, so I guess I'm in.
I'm not embarrassed about it; it is generally unheard between my friends. All they really know is I like writing and I write "stuff." They're not into writing and don't take an interest in my work either, so that doesn't help.
Admittedly, I don't tell my family, especially my mother, for they (wanting to take an interest in their child) would want to proof read. No way. :)
I'm out. All the way. I tell my friends about it, it annoys them but I'll constantly blab onto them about my new story. My friends online will check out my stories and comment and my family already knows about my fanfics too :P
I'm in the closet for the most part. My family know but don't really care - although my brother thinks I'm a total weirdo for it.
My best friend knows but she's never taken an interest in what I write about. My other friends barely know that I like to write.
For me it's a private thing, when I first posted something I was terrified, my writing is an escape and something I always kept to myself. I was scared that my enjoyment would be ruined if people didn't enjoy my work.
But that's just me :)
I tell my RL friends that I write, heck my ffiction is based on me and two friends. None of my online friends know about it. It just doesn't come up^_^
In, but only because none of my friends are into manga/anime or video games, the stuff I write fanfics for. I've never really mentioned it to them. I doubt they'd be interested.
In when it comes to family (my mother loves to read everything I write, I prefer it that she doesn't.) but out when it comes to friends.
My little sister sometimes helps me with ideas when she's not being a little so-and-so. The rest of the family don't know I write A) They're not big on reading, B) My dad would read it, nitpick and tell me to do something worthwile.
My best friend knows I write, and she introduced me to Fanfiction and some of my current favourite fandoms, so meh.
In the closet mainly.
Gotta say I'm both- Everyone knows I'm a writer, and if they asked I'd tell them I write fanfiction without blinking an eye, but it's not like I'm like 'Hi, I'm Nicole and I write fanfiction' lol.
If it comes up in coversation, I'm more than willing to discuss it, but let's face it, most of the time it doesn't come up. There are quite a few peoplke who know though- especially my older friends who got me into fanfiction and wrote stories like I did.
Only my parents, sister and three best friends know. My family don't really care but my two friends read and write. Nobody else knows though, mainly because I'm in embarassed about how they would see my writing. I don't mind gettin critiscm from a stranger but I hate it from people I know.
I'm out far enough that my family know, but not far enough that I've let them read anything I've written. My parents want to, but one of the advantages of your own laptop is you can lock it! I'm a bit shy as regards my stories with people I know in real life, but they know that I write.
Umm.. I'm not embarrased about writing for FF but the thing is I write some Ms and that would be embarrasing if my parents knew my pen name so I'm a bit of a loner and no one really knows I write on here apart from my mates who do read everything I write. My family know I write on here just not the stuff I write about...
Umm.. I'm not embarrased about writing for FF but the thing is I write some Ms and that would be embarrasing if my parents knew my pen name so I'm a bit of a loner and no one really knows I write on here apart from my mates who do read everything I write. My family know I write on here just not the stuff I write about...
My parents would try to convince me to write my own work. While I am working on my own stuff, it's just too much fun to write fanfiction! So, I try not to make it a big thing around him, but my friends are always updated on what I do.
I went from testing out gen fic to only writing smut. Due to that I'm faaaaar into the closet. My friends and family know I write a lot but I've convinced them that what I write is private. They've no idea I post to several fanfic archives. :D
I feel a little embarrassed about writing fanfics. A few of my friends now I do, but I don't quite feel comfortable telling all my friends about it. Not that I'm ashamed of it, but I don't want to tell them just yet.
Plus, most of my stuff is Harry Potter - Remus/Sirius, and I feel kinda embarrassed about telling people about that :P
I'm not sure really, people know that I write but only a few people know what and who I write about! Family not included! Not sure of my dad's reaction if he found out and I doubt my mum would even care!
bit of both lol my friends know that i write, but only about three of them know that its fanfic and WHICH fanfic lol
my sister knows (we'll be sitting at breakfast and she'll randomly come out with - write blah blah blah)
i also write other stuff and there is noo waay its getting posted. i will never admit to my little sister that i'm still messing about with HP fanfics (her reaction to the HBP poster was bad enough lol)
My friends know I write fanfiction- and they know I write slash- I used to bring in slash fiction and they would read it in maths lessons- very risky.
My parents know I write fanfiction, but they have no idea what slash is. There is this episode of mock the week where Frankie Boyle makes fun of slash fiction, and I nearly spat my drink out- my dad just looked at me weird! Because, you know, it wasn't really funny if you don't know what slash is...
I'm so far into the closet that I live in the frozen wastelands of Narnia. I'm just far too shy to let people know I write and what I write. They know about my original stuff, but they don't know about my fanfic and I'm kinda nervous about them ever finding out.
cloest! People know I spend a lot of time on the computer, but they never know WHAT I do. I've told my family, so they at least know, but when I try to tell them I've accomplished an amazing story in a limited amount of time, they don't listen X(
The only person I know who could possibly write fanfiction- scrath that, only person who I can talk video games with is literally insane! At least I keep my grades up...
so basically no one would understand.
My friends know because they are in too - or they heard me ranting a bit too much. My parents knew every since I got caught writing a PotC on my mother's comp a few years ago.
And peeps in my year know that I write - everyone does, and my mother tells everyone that I also write in English... heck.
Funny thing is... more people know about me being yaoi obsessed than me being a writer. (My father saw some of my manga. XP)
I don't think anyone cares... the only thing is when I told my mother about Nanowrimo. She screamed at me, saying she can't why the hell would I spend a month writing something no one would read.
One of my cousin read one of my fanfic without me knowing it and he started telling me to cut it about gay dudes... I had to fully step out of the closet at that time, in front of the whole family. TT""
Very very in the closet. I'm cool enough as it is.
Why, if people knew, I think I'd become so cool that I would implode with the weight of my coolness. It's such a burden!
I like to listen to my ipod or itunes, I can't work with out music
Everyone that wants to know, knows that I write fanfiction. I don't advertise it, but if somebody asks then i'll tell 'em. ^.^
Well, I don't advertise the fact, but I'll tell anyone who asks.
The main issue is that I'm a big Draco/Harry shipper, and therefore I don't really tell people.
I don't tend to tell people about it because I'm pretty sure none of my friends know what it is! And I know that a lot of people will just add it to the "reasons why Lydia is a geek" list, any wonder why I'm not too keen on most people at my school. I don't think it's geekish personally (obviously) but these are people who probably haven't read a book out of school.
i wouldnt say that i was in the 'closet' i just know that my family and friends would think it was just another weird thing that i do. Plus i hate being critisied by people i know also i havent actually written in a while so atm there is nothing to hide in the 'closet'
My card gaming friends found out very quick XD because I accidentaly let it slip during a game when my friend asked if I liked Yaoi because I "Seemed like the kind of person who would." I went slightly red in the face and was like "Uhm..I uh..."
Then because of my /slight/ obsession with Bison and Vega from SF I got asked "Ohhh, so the reason you get so easily distracted when we mention them is because you always get the idea of them getting it on." and I just turned around and went "Hell yes!"
Thankfully, they didn't mind XD
Out lmfaoXD even though my fanfics are well...okish I suppose Mai Hime;) One of the best Yuri couples ever!!
I'm in the closet :) my friends know I like to read fanfiction's but they have no idea that I write on here. They think its weird because my other friend does it and she's told them all.
I'm in the closet :) my friends know I like to read fanfiction's but they have no idea that I write on here. They think its weird because my other friend does it and she's told them all.
I'm neither in nor out of this closet lol.
I don't openly broadcast it because I don't see why I should have to. But if anyone asks or it comes up in conversation then I have NO problem with revealing that I write/read fanfiction :)
I'm neither in nor out of this closet lol.
I don't openly broadcast it because I don't see why I should have to. But if anyone asks or it comes up in conversation then I have NO problem with revealing that I write/read fanfiction :)
My family knows, my friends know and if anyone asks me I will happily tell them. if they think it's weird, who cares? It's got nothing to do with them, it's what i want to do i like fanfiction and I enjoy readind and writing for fanfiction. It's not embarrassing! I think it's awesome!
I'm absolutely in the closet.
My friend and I write fanfic and share it with each other but not with anybody else. My family knows I like to write stories but doesn't know what they're about and never read them ect. People know that I read it but for some reason I wouldn't like people to know I wrote them myself.
I'm absolutely in the closet.
My friend and I write fanfic and share it with each other but not with anybody else. My family knows I like to write stories but doesn't know what they're about and never read them ect. People know that I read it but for some reason I wouldn't like people to know I wrote them myself.
Only my family know I write fanfiction and that’s only because my sister can't mind her own business and she told my parents, my mother always wants to read my fics but I just find that embarrassing and as for my friends I don't think they even know that FanFiction.net exists.
Some of my family know I write fanfiction, some of my friends, and that is it. I don't really want many people to know about my writing. Most online friends only know my online identity rather than my RL one. It's safer for me that way I guess. It's not that I'm personally ashamed, it's more of a case that other people would get offended or see it as weird and I am in a job where I could be dismissed for being the less than perfect role model.
totally in the closet - fanfiction is a way for me to seperate myself from daily life, so why would i tell anyone i know? its not that im embarressed, its just that my writing's too personal for me to share with anyone in my life (although evidently not too personal for me to share with thousands of complete strangers on the internet, but whatever)x
My friends know I write fan fiction. They just don't know what fan fiction is. Family know I post on ff.net but not the content. (Thank god)
I the closet. I might be a teacher soon...
In the closet. I might be a teacher soon...
In the closet. I might be a teacher soon...
Er... I guess I came out a few days ago. But then they put me on author alert. Ahhh....
I'm in the closet. I'm practically in Narnia. I'm not particularly embarressed by it, but I'm already the geek/nerd of my group, I'm the misfit, if most of my friends knew they would just add it to the list and I'll become even more of a oddball. If my really close friends ask, I'll tell them, but that's only because I know they won't drop me for anything and one or two are a bit geeky too. And when it comes to my family? No. I mentioned it to my mother once, but she's already forgotten. A couple of my friends might reconise me by my online name, which I use for pretty much everything, but that'll be rare.
I wright fanfiction but I'm in the closet about it. None of my friends or family know I wright fanfiction. I'm not sure why I have never told them. I think that I'm already a bit "out there" so I don't think they would understand why I enjoy reading and wrighting fanfiction. To be honest I think I would be made fun of. It's really frustrating to have none of my friends or family to talk about it with to be honest.
I also like to think of fanfiction as a side of me that no one knows. It's my little thing that I can go to when ever I want and escape real life.
I'm out. My family and friends know that I read and write fanfiction and I discuss ideas with a couple of my oldest friends. However, I don't generally let people I know read what I read/write unless they express an interest in it. So most people have no idea what i actually read or write, just that i do. I like it like that, as I don't think everyone would like/understand the ff idea.
I only recently outed myself to my uni friends and almost regretted it. But they ended up being fine about it, which was good.
I'm a bit of both. my family/friends know I read fanfics, but I don't really let people read them, not that they'd care. They don't really understand the point of it and it confuses them. I've tried to get people into it but...there just not interested. Also, if they read my ff.net profile, my parents would have a heart attack! They would find out I'm a yaoi fan! They have nothing against homosexuals, just against there underage daughter reading it on the laptop they bought her... he he he. I love fanfics, its an escape for me, a new way to improve my writing. Hell, I don't know how they'll react, I mean I haven't even told them I'm Bi! I'll probably let them know that when they catch me making out with a girl or something...Anyway, oof topic. I'm half-way in. In fact, I'm stuck there. With super glue. Permenantly.
I'm not realy in the fanfic closet, some of my friends family know that i write it, but its irelavent as under no condition are they alowed to read any of it. I guess i'm just shy.
Sort of half and half. My friends (and Grandma) know that I USED to write fanfiction, but only my parents know that I still do.
I wouldn't tell people I don't know very well. Personal thing. They'd have to get past the whole "I'm a 21-year-old who still loves Pokemon" thing. Again, personal.
Sorry. Meant to say "They'd have to get past it FIRST." Lol.
Totally in. No-one I know knows that I write it. Not even my mum, who I tell pretty much everything to. Partially because a lot of my stories are basically porn, and partially because I don't want her to worry about my slight obsession with it.
Absolutely in. Most of my friends and family know I want to be a writer but none know I write FF. That may be because my parent might not actually get what it is, even if I did explain, so ...
But a lot of my stories are M rated. Very recently a friend has just confessed she writes fanfiction but she was very reluctant to let me read any of them, so I'm surrounded by in the closet fanfictioneers. :S
It took me ages to come out of the closet... I've been writing for seven years, and gradually as I got better, I let more people read them :) I think it happened as I grew more confident in my writing.
It's a bit weird my parents reading my stories about child-abuse though :P They end up worrying it's about them lol!
I basically have one leg sticking out of the closet... and maybe a little of an arm as well. Most of my friends know as they too enjoy writing and reading fanfiction, although a few do not. It's not that I'm embarrassed to tell them or anything, it's just that the majority of my published work so far is... shall I say not for kids? That would definitely be the reason my family doesn't know.
I would have no problem telling the rest of my friends about this, it just doesn't seem to have come up in conversation as they aren't readers/writers themselves.
My family know; my mother beta reads my fics for me and my sister's always giving me ideas. Only two or three of my friends know, though. I don't know why. I'm not embarressed about it, I've just never felt the need to inform them, as most aren't into writing themselves.
The people who do know are fine about it though, there's no reason for them not to be. A friend and I even wrote something together once.
Completely and utterly in. No-one knows at all about me reading or writing fan-fics, probably because I'm embarrassed, there, I've said it :P
Most of my friends think its geeky (so I don't know why I haven't admitted it because they already think I'm a total geek)
And my family would probably just say its a waste of time :S
I once asked a friend if she'd ever read fanfiction (one that I thought was most likely to accept it) and she looked at me like I was stupid. So yeah, definitely in :P
I'm out. All my friends and family know. But I don't brag about it. Some of them are rather shocked, since I never took a liking to writing a few years ago, now I can't stop! So, yeah. I'm out!
Everyone in my CLASS knows, never mind family. I mentioned that I've got some stories on the internet and BOOM! They all want to know about it.
They're just an over-excitable bunch!
I read and write in fanfic in secret. Family know i read online fiction. and they knew as a child i used to write my own stories. but i think they think i outgrew it. its not that i'm embarressed or ashamed but this is my world and i don't want their input. Yeah, sounds crazy but the people i want input from are those that read my fics. they are the people who will tell me what they really think, they'll tell me when my grammer needs improving. not what they think i want to hear. i've had that for to long.
For me, it's mainly because I'm writing a pretty romantic fic, on an Anime, which isn't exactly masculine. I doubt I'd get a great reception from people I know knowing I write.
Well my mum knows, and my brother knows and my best friend knows. I wouldn't tell anyone else. My mum is so annoying though, she goes on my laptop and starts reading my work. I hate it.
Sorta i and out as only y family knows about my writing but on parents night at school my mum always brings it up - English teacher of course ad I must admit that I do get a little embaressed but I think its alright when my friends and mum read
I guess i'm out, my twin somehow managed to let it slip in an english class and now my teacher is hell, she reads all my fics and asks me about plot lines and stuff right in the middle of class
i am almost completely in the ffcloset; the only person who i know personally to have seen or read or talk to me about my ff is my best friend... she gives me a lot of feedback before i post and gives me idea's too.
I'm really in the closet about fanfiction. I mostly write on my iPod, and sometimes my friends ask what I'm doing, but I just tell them I'm writing stories, nothing specific. I read at night or on the bus, so no one really notices. I talktgo my (few) reviewers online, but in real life, my lips are sealed. I sincerelg don't know what my parents would think if they knew I wrote fanfiction with, you know, yaoi and stuff... For now, I'm quite fine like this, but I really do wish I had someone to talk to about fanfiction.
My mom and a few close friends know that I write fanfiction, but for the most part I don't broadcast it.
My sister also writes, so she knows, but we don't collaborate much as we write for totally different fandoms.
I'm out about the fact I do it, but the ones that I'm out to (generally) don't know where on the Internet to look, and I don't brag to them about it or ask for help. There is exactly one exception. And when he found out where my fics were and read them, and even complimented me on them and gave ideas while having me submit critique to him... well. Yeah, that situation is still 20x weirder than it would've been if he read my original fiction instead.
I'm definatly out. I try to convince my friends to read what I write and my Twin and my ex-boyfriend both support me in fanfiction. My sister is a writer two and I know several kids in my school from talking to them about their own stories online. My mother doesn't like that I write fanfictions though and doesnt like us talking about it.
I hide waaaay in the back of that closet, mostly because I write for fandoms that my friends don't even know exist. For the most part, I get "what's that?" when I mention anything I write for, so I've just stopped bothering with them. (Internet friends are the exception here, because most of them I met /through/ my writing.)
With family... they know I write fanfiction, but I pretend I keep it all in Google Docs for the most part (my sister is the exception, since she's my beta/editor). My mom would FREAK if she read anything I've written (just because some characters' mouths are not as clean as she'd like mine to be... not to mention YAOI).
All in all, I'm pretty secretive about it. There are some ideas I just don't like sharing, and others that I want to keep hidden until I know what I'm doing.
Way out. Even people in work know about it XD.
If the topic of hobbies comes up with my classmates or something then I'll say I write it, but I don't go out of my way to tell people. If my teachers overhear then they haven't mentioned it, and although I talk to my family members about it ("Oh, so I updated one of my stories the other day! Blah blah blah") none of them are overly interested. My mom sometimes pesters me about how I should be writing something original instead, but that's as far as it goes.
Its not like I write anything terribly shameful anyways, so I don't really mind if someone asks to read my work. Most of the time the reason I'm against it is because many people who ask aren't familiar with the shows/books I write for and wouldn't understand what's going on. I do have some M rated stuff, but its more romantic than graphic and I am turning 22 years old this year so who cares ^^
I find that I'm kind of stuck in the door frame ^^' It's not that I /want/ to be, I just am. All my friends know I read it frequently (I read the most of it from my friends, some even call it my "porn" from a bit of a misunderstanding earlier in the year). Some even know I write for it, they just don't bother asking so I don't bother telling them. None read in the same genres I do, anyway.
As far as family goes, my mom is a hairdresser so she talks to everyone who sits in her chair (that was a bit of a hyperbole) and pretty much anyone she talks to. My sister is a dabbler in writing, and she isn't ever on FF.net, so that explains that.
@CherryBerryB Same.
I've been reading fanfiction since I was 11 or 12-- and I never told anybody. But then one day, about a year and a half ago, my younger sister discovered fanfiction, and she's totally "out of the closet" about it. She talks to my parents, her friends, everyone about it. It was kind of awkward for me, because here I'd been keeping it a secret for years, for apparently no reason. :/
Ever since she became open about it, I have slowly crawled out too. I'm a lot less open about it, and it still makes me uncomfortable sometimes how open my sister is about her stories-- she reads them right out in the living room-- but I'm probably just jealous. I should have been more open earlier. You know?