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Post by Hope on Oct 11, 2008 17:46:54 GMT -5
They say you never forget your first. My first Pern character broke every rule...was depressed, religious, blind, and Impressed a hatchling from a secret race of Red Dragons that could turn invisible. Oh, and she was psychic, had flowing red hair, a K name (Karina), and a faire of firelizards bigger than Menolly's. I was 13, had never heard of fandom, and wrote this atrocity for 7th grade English because we were doing A Wizard of Earthsea, there weren't enough copies to go around, and I'd read the book before. Twice. So I read the Harper Hall trilogy instead, and wrote a 20 page story instead of a 3 page paper...what a deal! So...anyone else have a first to confess?
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Post by Hope on Oct 22, 2008 21:49:12 GMT -5
NOBODY? Oh, I am mortified in my singular and lonely guilt....
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Post by Anna on Oct 22, 2008 23:19:44 GMT -5
::sigh:: Let's just say that my first Pern story featured my home town as much as it did Pern, and it was a couple of years before I ever heard the term 'fandom.' Or 'modem.' I dont' even want to think about all the 'rules' I broke.
Hell, it was even a couple of years before I had a computer!
But then my sisters got their hands on my notebook and mocked me so much I threw it away so they wouldn't have it as ammunition.
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Deb
Weyr Representative
Haven
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Post by Deb on Oct 23, 2008 15:53:07 GMT -5
My roommate and I used to write stories years ago but it wasn't until I was in my 30's that I found fandom on Qlink. Since I had loved the Dragonrider books from the beginning, I thought I would try my hand at it for Crystal. Mark Masters and I had already roll played with M'rek and Celina so the rest was fairly easy. Wish I had some of those old stories back. Would be nice to see how I've improved over the years.
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Susan
Weyr Representative
Crescent
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Post by Susan on Oct 26, 2008 11:34:15 GMT -5
My first personas created in 1992 were Karysta (K-name, huh!), a 16-Turn-old holder lass, and her twin brother, K'ryst (twin AND K-name <g>), who was a brownrider at Crescent Weyr. They were natives of Rivers Hold in Crescent Weyr's territory and had a large and sprawling family which has since spread out all over Pern. Laria, one of my blueriders at StarRise, is her younger sister.
My first story, "The Piper" showed up in issue #1 of The Crescendo and I still have the original zine that I jubilantly received through the mail (thanks to Greg who started Crescent and had flyers up at Weyrfest at DragonCon!). I remember getting the zine right before a huge snowstorm buried Knoxville TN for a few days, giving me plenty of time to read it while drinking hot chocolate. I think that was around March 1993.
Things in my life seemed so much less complicated then and I associate that feeling of joy and, I guess innocence, to writing Pernfic. I think I'll go find some hot chocolate and read that zine again.
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Erica
Dragonrider
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Post by Erica on Oct 26, 2008 13:04:34 GMT -5
NOBODY? Oh, I am mortified in my singular and lonely guilt.... I can't.... I'm afraid that my first experiences in writing pern were with Forten....Erin got me into good habits! (and only one K name...LOL)
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Post by JustPlainKitty on Feb 4, 2009 13:42:35 GMT -5
/sigh. My first character was a green rider named Kitiana (Telgar Weyr) who could hear all dragons, had over a dozen fire lizards, long, wavy golden brown hair and I wrote terrible stories about her. I'm so glad I got better as time went on.
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Post by erin on Feb 6, 2009 23:48:28 GMT -5
My first Pern character was Ekithi at ForTen. She was a harper and soooo generic. I still have her, she turned into an artisan and became a ditz. Poor thing.
My second were twin red-heads with K names who both got Searched.
Fortunately I got past some of the awfulness before I actually ended up with many bad stories in the 'zine since I joined up right before #7 was published, and then there was a long-ish break. My first published story was actually for High Reaches 9.
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Trini
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Post by Trini on Feb 7, 2009 0:56:33 GMT -5
My first Pern character was, like Hope's, created long before I knew there was such a thing as fanfiction. She was a Viper pilot from the Battlestar Galactica (named Kara... I am NOT making that up) who crash landed on Pern after getting lost from the fleet and flying through the Thread cloud... and found a gold egg that was (for a good reason that I can't remember right now...) lying in a cove on a beach. She was sort of camped out beside it, and this stuff started falling out of the sky, and the egg started rocking... it was all very dramatic. I was very proud... and only 12 years old. I'm proud to say that she did NOT have red hair.
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Thom
Dragonrider
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Post by Thom on Feb 8, 2009 1:51:07 GMT -5
My rule-breaking character would probably be B'relan at Fort. He's a twin, son of a Lord Holder, journeyman woodcrafter, got Searched at a Gather, Impressed a bronze and ended up as a Weyrleader.
Oh, and his dragon will talk to other people... but only when necessary.
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Post by Chantal on Feb 11, 2009 22:58:31 GMT -5
My first Pern character was Lioren, green Silveth's rider, of Southern Weyr when Galyard ran it. (1985 or so), maybe earlier. I had read enough Star Trek fan fiction by then to know not to make her ridiculous. She was pretty generic.
Aerden is probably my most prima-donna Pern character. Migraine behavior that really should not have been tolerated but was. A deep, dark, secret that he has amnesia about. Brilliant at what he does, etc. What the heck--I adore him, anyway. (g)
I did have a bluerider at Dark Fort who was 1. Not gay and 2. Annoyed at the treatment he got as a bluerider in that setting. Dark Fort wanted to basically take the 8th Pass attitude of the Weyrs and take it even farther, instituting privileged hierarchies within the Weyr according to dragon color, and so forth. It was interesting for a while, but I got tired of it. There are only so many times that you can read the curse word "Feck!" without rolling your eyes.
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Post by katah on Feb 14, 2009 1:07:55 GMT -5
I jumped into writing fandom with a whole host of characters, with want for lots and lots of experience with both writing and roleplaying (heck, our company bought TSR, after all, we wouldn't have done that if we weren't all D&D geeks. I joined Telgar and probably doubled the volume of the output for that zine.
And to make confessions more interesting, someone could ask me about Kitty's characters and I could get creative about my stories.
My real main character was probably R'lain. Quite a turbulant past, ended up at the weyr with a large brown dragon. She was a fairly serious child from the beginning. Her dragon was far less serrious and he would talk to anyone, project to everyone, which was inconvenient for everyone and took a while before it became tactically viable on any level. So, that was probably my biggest breach. Cheers!
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Post by Hope on Feb 16, 2009 22:23:37 GMT -5
Ah, now I feel much better! To know that many of you had similar beginnings in writing Pern does my heart good. Here's to the dreadful stuff we wrote, and all we learned by writing it!
And, Trini--I wish you still had that first story! ;>
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Trini
Dragonrider
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Post by Trini on Feb 17, 2009 21:30:44 GMT -5
Hope -- That would be a hoot. I maintain that the best way to learn to write better is by writing badly first. No one ever improved their skill by thinking about writing.
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Post by ginnystar on Mar 1, 2010 4:07:57 GMT -5
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