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Doctor Who 3.10: Blink
Jun. 10th, 2007 01:15 pm( Many spoilers under the cut )
Something that came up in the Confidential interests me. How many people on my f-list (or indeed coming to read this from elsewhere) would have become involved with fandom if they hadn't had Doctor Who? DW was my first big TV love, my first fandom. I've had more active involvement with Buffy and Stargate fandoms over the years because they were what was on TV when I started to get involved with the fan communities. But it was Doctor Who that started firing my imagination and making me fall in love with this whole genre. That in turn has hugely influenced what I write and, in some ways, my continuing to write at all. I discovered fanfiction at a time when I wasn't writing much and it gave me an outlet for stories that I hadn't known how to write before. Now I'm moving back into original writing more, but I can attribute that directly to the passion for creating and writing that fanfiction inspired. In turn, that's led me to be more involved with fandom in general and get out there to meet other fans at conventions and events.
If I one day get a book published, it will be largely due to fanfiction re-awakening my love of writing and it's possible that none of this would have happened if I'd not been a little Doctor Who fan watching Peter Davison battling Daleks and Cybermen as a kid.
Something that came up in the Confidential interests me. How many people on my f-list (or indeed coming to read this from elsewhere) would have become involved with fandom if they hadn't had Doctor Who? DW was my first big TV love, my first fandom. I've had more active involvement with Buffy and Stargate fandoms over the years because they were what was on TV when I started to get involved with the fan communities. But it was Doctor Who that started firing my imagination and making me fall in love with this whole genre. That in turn has hugely influenced what I write and, in some ways, my continuing to write at all. I discovered fanfiction at a time when I wasn't writing much and it gave me an outlet for stories that I hadn't known how to write before. Now I'm moving back into original writing more, but I can attribute that directly to the passion for creating and writing that fanfiction inspired. In turn, that's led me to be more involved with fandom in general and get out there to meet other fans at conventions and events.
If I one day get a book published, it will be largely due to fanfiction re-awakening my love of writing and it's possible that none of this would have happened if I'd not been a little Doctor Who fan watching Peter Davison battling Daleks and Cybermen as a kid.
