Quote:Well, I can't...I was trying my hand at fanfiction, albeit very bad fanfiction, before discovering UF...
Damn... Thats amazing about how many of us can link the start of our fic writing back to Gryph.
...but Gryphon and the Eyrie crew are probably the fic writers I admired the most...at least during their really active period between, I dunno, 2000-2005 or so. Somethin' like that.
See, I think there's something compelling about their stuff. G and his collaborators have this massively epic universe with amazing characters. But it was built on a SI parody thing. And right now, they continue to rope in bits from every possible source, and make it work.
That gives us hope that we can make our ideas work, rather than, I dunno, simply discarding them as silly or unoriginal.
'course, I say this, but I've never really done anything in the way of actual "published" fanfic...like, never thrown anything up on a site or mailing list for widespread public distribution.
(well, aside from the City of Heroes stuff I've posted to the boards here, but that's still 'internal consumption', really)
Hm.
I probably should. I've certainly got the material lying around...
-- Acyl
(on a side note, Drunkard's Walk is actually my all-time favourite insert-type story, so nyah)
-- Acyl