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I meant to ask earlier, did you put your finished fic on the Archive? And Moments... did it go too?

And WiP's should definately get posted. *Especially* if it means we can nag, er ask nicely, for you to finish them.

Loriel (who would have checked the archive but is afraid she'll get sucked in!!)

Yeah, it's up there - thought I mentioned that in the forward to MoI, but I've been out of it most of today, so I might have forgotten.

As to the other one - I got about 9 parts posted to Truth or Consequences and then hit a brick wall with it. Left it for so long that now I think I'm just going to have to rework the whole damned thing, or at least the last part or so. So once I have a working plan made up, at least, I'll start reposting it. I think that was part of my problem before - I was writing 30 minutes at a time, not really planning where the story was going, and then posting whatever I had written in that time. (It began life as a 30 minute challenge fic - those shorties were *fun*, and you should go read some of them...)

Anyway...

Melisma (crawling back under her Rock to do some more research, if she can )

And it's now 9 parts long?!! That's some 30 min challenge!

I read a whole stack of the 30 min challenges as they were posted to the list a while back. I was completely amazed at what people can do in 30 min, I mean it takes me that long to open Word and write the first sentance. And that's only after I've thought over my idea for the past 3 months. I was totally in awe when soemone posted a challenge and almost 30 min later there were stories coming in! (Well, maybe not 30 min, but I'm sure it was no more that 24 hrs! )

Loriel (in awe of all fanfic writers!)

Well in the case of Truth or Consequences, I'd had the first part of the story worked out, but I'd had no impetus to try to get it on paper (on the computer, whatever). So when the 30 minute challenges came along, I figured that I would write in 30 minute increments, but each one would be part of the story. And yes, it took me to 9 parts...

Melisma (grinning under her Rock)

It's been so long ago...

It would be a toss up between Debby Stark's and Margaret Brignell's Swap Meet(s) and Chief Pam's wonderful President Kent series.

I am a HUGE fan of Alt's, What If's, Time Travel, and the like, if you have any doubts, just read some of my stories....

James

Another fan of "alomst anything SF&F" here.

And (on topic), I realized something last night. I actually read one bit of what might loosely be called L&C fanfic way back in the 80s. It was the first thing I ever read re Superman that didn't make me cringe.

It was the infamous Niven essay.

You mean that's not fanfic?

/me ducks and runs

no, the niven essay isn't fic, but it has been the inspiration for a fic or two, including one of my own WIPs (which may well never see the light of the boards).

Paul

You know, I thought about this and realized I had absolutely no idea what the first fic I'd read was...I think I've read just about everything on the archive at some point in time. This stirred my curiosity, so I had to go try to figure it out...

I was pretty sure that I'd found the Archive during the first couple months that I was working in my research job back in college - so summer of 1999. That was the first time I really decided to start looking for Lois and Clark related stuff on the internet. For some reason it had never occured to me that there might more L&C nuts out there, and that I should go look for them...

So, summer of 1999...and I was pretty sure I would have just started checking with the new posts around that time, so I checked the date and looked at the stories that were uploaded around that time. And it hit me - Fear of Discovery - uploaded July 25, 1999!!! I'm pretty sure that was it! So I can blame Yvonne for the last 4 years of my life? <g> (Just kidding, Yvonne, you'll never know how glad I am that I found the Archives and everything else in FoLCdom - so THANK YOU!)

P.S. Totally cool topic, Kathy!!! I haven't even thought about this in years, now I need to go back and re-read FoD!!! Yay!!!

Hmm... in comparison to the most of you, I'm just a newbie here... I've been a member of the FoLCs community just for 4 months.
However, I've been a Fan of Lois & Clark for much longer.
The first fanfic I ever read was "Before and After Clark Kent" by Raquel Guimaraes. Raquel was the one who found me, became a friend of mine, told me everything about the fanfic stuff and, by the way, told me she had written something. So I went straight to read it.
And that made me love fanfics.
Thanks Raquel!

I would also like to congratulate Kathy, for reminding us such perfect times... the first time we met the other FoLCs, the first time we read a fanfic, the first time we decided to post a reply, the first time we deicded to write our own fanfiction... all these first times are closely connected one to another, and they guide us to many beautiful memories.
Thanks Kathy!

Anna_B.

Anna, what a sweet sentiment. And one I heartily agree with!

Nothing like a bout of nostalgia to increase the waff factor.

LabRat

What a fun topic!

Since it was some time in... oh, '98 or so, I don't remember my first fic. It was probably Dawning, stumbled on by accident, read on Debby's ftp site. Which directed me to Margaret's website. Which had a link the archive, which was an ftp site at the time too. And then the fic list, which I mistakenly assumed was for sneak peaks at upcoming archived fics. I joined just as a massive OT thread began about street names, and nearly unsubscribed. Good thing I stuck around, huh?

Sigh. Happy memories.

Hazel

Hummm, I think my first was Back to the Future, from S5. I was looking for any fic that followed Family Hour. And I stumbled with the Archive.

Jose

Interesting thread! My first fic...er...it was "Conscience Loops" and it rests in the archives. You can find it here , but I hardly suggest you forget about this URL, you'll be deceived, really!

The first thing I read was a story where Lois was pregnant but she was advised to stop tyhe pregnancy. She chose not to because she wanted to have CK's baby and at the end she has a baby (or was it two? I can't remember.) but dies. ANyone know the story I'm talking about? Because I can't remember...

Cris

The Unaired 5th Season was the very first fanfic that I discovered. I remember reading into the early morning hours eventually printing out every episode. I was hooked!

When I eventually discovered the archive a couple of months later I was ecstatic.

Tricia

Oops!

Now I realise my single neurone wasn't connectec when I posted my reply ...ok, the fist fic I discovered was "Star player, star reporter" by Stopquitdon't.

I haven't read it, but I think it was on the ballot in the very first Kerths... Try checking this one: Nine Months of Life or Death by Lily
or maybe it was When You Needed Me Most, by Erin Klingler...

PJ

Well, she didn't die in Erin's story, Pam. I'm wondering if it's a story I GEd, called I Will Always Love You, by Juliana Nozue (if I have the name correct).


Wendy

Hmm, maybe... I've not ever read any of them <g> so all I have to go on is hazy memories of *hearing* about the story... someone must have loved (or disliked) it, to talk so much that I'd remember it years later <g>

PJ

I'd decided to keep my post short, but since most people are giving detailed explanations, I thought I'd give mine.

Btw, thanks Pam and Wendy for trying to put a name to that first story. I really can't remember and the truth is I really didn't like it. Not because it wasn't well written, which I believe it was or I wouldn't have made it all the way through (I seem to recall it being long, but I hadn't read any, so long might not be that long after all...) but because it made me really sad...

Anyway, I'd never had access to the net until the summer before my last high school year. I expent a month in Charlotte (NC) on an exchange and the first thing I searched for when my American 'family' explained to me how internet worked was, oh surprise, L&C. A penfriend had given me a link to what she saiud was a fifth season written by fans, but I never found it and stumbled on the mentioned fic instead. Back home I didn't get access at home until a few months later (April 2001, I believe) and again searched for L&C. Finally, I found TUFS and became inmensely hooked! I read most of the eps but never finished (though I've finally gotten back to the three or four I had left) becuase I found the archive and later, as I decided to post my first fic, the MBs (Thanks Tricia, btw, for telling me about them)

I've read a lot ever since and hope to continue for as long as I can (which ahd better be very long, lol)

Cris