*grins back* you know, you've got me beat. i started writing-- and reading!-- at age 8 (i think the two are pretty connected, so you probably -read- things before first grade forced you to, unlike me, who preferred dancing and drawing and swinging on swings and looking at things and asking questions. i think i always made up stories, i just didn't -write- before eight. which is, i suppose, almost a minor issue, really, considering i couldn't spell beyond my name and like, 20 words, and that's being generous, heh.)
and eeee, that description made me all fuzzy-happy. sometimes ...even in a wide community of people who write fic (and call themselves "fanfic writers", rather than writers, so often), i forget just how -cool- and important and -beyond- fandom (while including it), how life-long and wide-reaching and personal, how tied up with one's history writing can be, and -is- for some of us. it's like... looking beyond the "fandom" or "personal/real life" division and thinking about how truly -personal- and -real- all this really is. *sighs happily*
and, hah! to the "coherent" (i know i'm not, heh) :D but thank you anyway :D
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Date: 2003-02-28 06:00 pm (UTC)you know, you've got me beat. i started writing-- and reading!-- at age 8 (i think the two are pretty connected, so you probably -read- things before first grade forced you to, unlike me, who preferred dancing and drawing and swinging on swings and looking at things and asking questions. i think i always made up stories, i just didn't -write- before eight. which is, i suppose, almost a minor issue, really, considering i couldn't spell beyond my name and like, 20 words, and that's being generous, heh.)
and eeee, that description made me all fuzzy-happy. sometimes ...even in a wide community of people who write fic (and call themselves "fanfic writers", rather than writers, so often), i forget just how -cool- and important and -beyond- fandom (while including it), how life-long and wide-reaching and personal, how tied up with one's history writing can be, and -is- for some of us. it's like... looking beyond the "fandom" or "personal/real life" division and thinking about how truly -personal- and -real- all this really is. *sighs happily*
and, hah! to the "coherent" (i know i'm not, heh) :D
but thank you anyway :D