![]() But at least nobody who was judging me knew my real name.) Fandom gave me a place to explore all that where I wouldn’t be questioned or judged. I had a rough year right after college…lots of depression, lots of panic attacks. There were about three years in college in which I didn’t participate in much fandom activity (aside from clutching cheap beer while feverishly reading the weekly updates on my favorite fic)-but after graduation I fell right back into it. But I will say that I wrote actual millions of words in this fandom, and got in approximately as many arguments about the source material and whether we should romanticize the antihero and if it’s even possible to divorce politics from fannish discourse. I won’t say which fandom ended up being my main home (because my identity there will quickly become obvious). I became an active player in several HP role-playing communities, where I developed a reputation for always (always, always) writing the villains. ![]() I produced tens of thousands of words of fic about Luna Lovegood and various OCs for Harry Potter. ![]() A year later I was committed to fandom: I had cornered the market on Rosiel fanfiction (for the manga Angel Sanctuary). It was a Sailor Moon spin-off about a new and obviously self-insert sailor scout named Sailor Libra. ![]() I wrote my first fanfic when I was eleven. How writing fanfiction got me a book deal Victoria Lee shares her personal experience with fanfiction and novel-writing in this exclusive guest post. ![]()
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