Post by gwynnyd on Nov 7, 2006 12:41:18 GMT -5
I've been around so long, I remember fan fic before slash and when Mary Sue had no name. 
I've been a fanfic reading/editing/publishing fan since 1970 and "Mary Sue" got her name from the Kalamazoo/Lansing, Michigan Star Trek fans around 1973. The first rumors of a Kirk/Spock relationship ran through fandom in the summer of 1971 or maybe it was '72. Things that long ago are getting blurry.
I did my first beta reading/editing/publishing in the Star Trek universe when TOS was all there was. My biggest claim to fame from those days was as editor/publisher of the "Kraith Series" written by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, which had some of the biggest print runs of on-paper-fanzines. I stopped hand-collating the zines when the I started printing more than a thousand copies of each volume in the series.
I also edited/published many Man From U.N.C.L.E. zines over the years.
I read the Lord of the Rings for the first time when I was in high school. My friends were all caught up in the Hobbits, but it was the Men that fascinated me. I had been all hard science fiction (Asimov, Star Trek, etc) before then, but Tolkien lured me into history, languages, anthropology and set the tone for the rest of my education. Finding fandom as fandom went global, I found places like the Mythopoeic Society to be stodgy and inimicable to my interests, which even then leaned towards fan fiction. Except for yearly re-readings and private musings, I abandoned Tolkien for thirty years and played in more media oriented fandoms. Then came the movies.
I started writing my own fan fic in the summer of 2003, when, for some reason, I *had* to write a Lord of the Rings story. To my great surprise, the thirty years I spent editing other people seems to have paid off and it turned out reasonably well, especially compared to my earlier efforts.
I'm good at helping with plots. I've got a decent grasp of grammar and spelling. I know far too many details about medieval life from my other hobby of the Society for Creative Anachronism. And I'm always willing to give an opinion.
I've been a fanfic reading/editing/publishing fan since 1970 and "Mary Sue" got her name from the Kalamazoo/Lansing, Michigan Star Trek fans around 1973. The first rumors of a Kirk/Spock relationship ran through fandom in the summer of 1971 or maybe it was '72. Things that long ago are getting blurry.I did my first beta reading/editing/publishing in the Star Trek universe when TOS was all there was. My biggest claim to fame from those days was as editor/publisher of the "Kraith Series" written by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, which had some of the biggest print runs of on-paper-fanzines. I stopped hand-collating the zines when the I started printing more than a thousand copies of each volume in the series.
I also edited/published many Man From U.N.C.L.E. zines over the years.
I read the Lord of the Rings for the first time when I was in high school. My friends were all caught up in the Hobbits, but it was the Men that fascinated me. I had been all hard science fiction (Asimov, Star Trek, etc) before then, but Tolkien lured me into history, languages, anthropology and set the tone for the rest of my education. Finding fandom as fandom went global, I found places like the Mythopoeic Society to be stodgy and inimicable to my interests, which even then leaned towards fan fiction. Except for yearly re-readings and private musings, I abandoned Tolkien for thirty years and played in more media oriented fandoms. Then came the movies.
I started writing my own fan fic in the summer of 2003, when, for some reason, I *had* to write a Lord of the Rings story. To my great surprise, the thirty years I spent editing other people seems to have paid off and it turned out reasonably well, especially compared to my earlier efforts.
I'm good at helping with plots. I've got a decent grasp of grammar and spelling. I know far too many details about medieval life from my other hobby of the Society for Creative Anachronism. And I'm always willing to give an opinion.