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Welcome to the forum!

On behalf of the administration team, the staff and the members I'd like to extend a warm welcome to you all.

Come, come; introduce yourselves. How'd you get into writing, what brought you here? Do you have favorite fandoms, styles? Like flying pigs? Let us know .

Except maybe the flying pigs part... that's just strange. lol.

Have fun guys!

*Waves*

Hi everyone! I'm the brains behind this whole operation. Okay, so maybe not ALL of the brains but it was my idea. We wouldn't have a site without Jodie though, everyone she's been amazing!

Many thanks to Jodie and Geni both. I really couldn't have done it without you.

But I'm supposed to be introducing myself right?

I'm LLK or Kathy or Kathryn. Most people just call me LLK.

This whole thing is my brain child. I can't believe we've come this far and that we've been as much of a success as we have. Really though, this wouldn't be here without all the support I've had from so many people along the way!

I'm all over the internet especially when related to CSI and Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Yes... weird combo.

I have a dog, cat, and ferret. I will talk about them ALL the time. I'll also talk about my roomte/best friend all the time too. If I ever have a tough choice to make regarding the FCG, she's probably going to be the one I go to for help. (Other than Jodie.)

And I do not like flying pigs. The only way you can make a pig fly is to toss it and that's not nice.

And uh... well... like I said before. I'd have nothing without the members here so really, truly, thank you!

-LLK

Hey, I'm the first non-administrator to post in this thread!

Okay, so I'm Zelda or Cory, and my fandoms are CSI:Miami, CSI:NY, occaisonally the original CSI, Bones (in the past--I haven't written anythng there for a while, but I still watch the show religiously), and I even managed an Angel fic once. I used to write for the movie Miracle, too. How long have I been writing? My goodness...a long time. I started writing a crime novel in middle school if you can believe that, and that was, well let's just say "back in the day"!

Um, what else? Don't know, but you can always ask. I don't bite unless that particular service is specifically requested

Wee! Second non-Adminy person to post here.

This is a cool looking site. It looks like we're going to have a lot of fun in our new home.

So, my name is Genevieve but a lot of people can't spell it so they go for Gen or Geni.

My fandoms include CSI:Miami, CSI:NY, Supernatural, Star Trek Voyager..er, I think that's it. Of course those are the only ones I've ever written so if there's some way I can take on another fandom, I definitely will. I like a challenge! Which is great, because we're at FCG. Am I rambling? Yep. Thought so.

I don't prefer flying pigs as much as I like David Cook but that's another topic for another time.

I'm LeAnne, and I'm starting to think that I should have used the same username as Talk:CSI. Hehe.

My fandoms are CSI:Miami and NCIS mainly, and I usually only write Miami but I seem to have a bit of a mental block on that recently so I'm also writing NCIS now.

I started writing fanfic back in November hehe but I've been writing poetry for a lot longer. I would write more now, but I have a demon sister who needs the computer.

LeAnne

WAIT! I know this... *thinks hard* *splodes*

Kidding. Hi, everyone. My name is Amanda Ruth... obviously. *facepalm* Of course y'all know that, that's my friggin' user name... DURR! You're not stupid! If you were, you certainly wouldn't have come here, eh?

Anyhow, ya know my name, so I might as well tell you some other stuff, I guess. Hmm... I got into fan fiction because of my friend Ashley, who writes, but doesn't come here... she's a dang fool, too. She should be here... WHY ISN'T SHE HERE?! *splodes*

Dude, I gotta stop doing that every five seconds. I swear, it's so difficult walking around when you don't have any legs, just so you can pick up your scattered body parts! Ah, well.

I write for CSI, CSI: Miami, and CSI: New York, but will eventually write for Bones, Gilmore Girls, and Prison Break. I love writing Angst, but also love ending in Fluffiness. Always, always Fluffiness.

Oh, and flying pigs are fun. I write pigs flying all the time... but they usually end in... never mind. You don't want to hear about my sick, twisted adventures into Original Fiction Land! They never end well. O_o

Anyhow, I'm off. But I'm glad y'all decided to come join this crazy place! I'm glad I did... (mainly because now I'm a MOD! *thud*)

Hey ya'll! I've kinda been absent the past few weeks, but I'm back!

So, I'm Race... it's easier to call me that than anything else, trust me. I've been writing fanfic for the better part of five years, writing CSI for one year. It all started with a little story called "Golden", and unfortunately, all that's left of that is a paper copy (but at least I have one!).

I write all three CSIs, but mostly Vegas. Although, I'm starting to get into NY writing as well. I love writing Greg stories, all the characters of NY (though I'm not that good at it yet). I'm pretty proud of my Saviour/Vegas series, because I love my little OC (even though most don't).

I tend to write darker, more twisted pieces. I can do fluff, I can do happy, but I love writing angst. I love twisting the characters around and making them recover slowly (like they never do on the show). I subscribe to the Rob Thomas School of Writing: Write out the darkness and you can be happy most of the time. (He said something to that effect on Storytellers years ago... I know, random).

Anyway... I have mostly chapter fics in progress right now, but I'm always up for challenges. And... I guess that's about it.

Hi everyone. I'm Jennifer as you can plainly see. My one and only fandom, at least right now, is CSI Miami. I've been writing stories based on the show for about a year now, although I've written fanfiction for two other shows in the past. On ff.net I'm TexasJen...yes I'm from Texas.

I am a hopeless romantic, so all my stories will have an element of romance, and will always end happily. I don't mind angst, and can write it, but that angst will not be there at the end .

Flying pigs...hmmm...that would be scary, to actually see them that is. I'd wonder if hell was freezing over.

*waves* I'm Kathryn, but everyone calls me Kaz so let's go with that

How'd I get into writing? Well I got into writing fanfic when I stumbled across ff.net a couple of months ago and got doused with several buckets of inspiration. Before that, I probably hadn't written a story for about five years

What brought me here? After being part of the set up at talk, (for like two weeks!) I decided that you're all stuck with me!

Currently I only write for CSI Miami. I just love the angsty/romantic potential that EC have. And I love writing their characters. But that said, I may branch off into other fandoms should I get doused with more inspirational buckets

Flying pigs? Now that would be something...

PS. Jodie I stole the avatar you showed me. Hope you don't mind!

EDIT: I changed it now anyways 8)

kazalene wrote:PS. Jodie I stole the avatar you showed me. Hope you don't mind!

Thief! Oh course I don't mind. But credit Leela

Welcome everyone so far! It's gret to have you on board. I should probably answer my own questions, nobody knows who I am (unless you do - cryptic, much?).

I'm adorelo, or Jodie, or J, or whatever. I've been writing for *does math* nearly five years now but have only been a member of fanfiction.net for three years.

What got me in to writing? Strangely enough, my therapist, haha. She thought it would be a nice way for me to 'express my emotions'. So I did, and I've not looked back since.

Those who do know me know my favorite genre is angst *glares at all who call me the queen of angst*, simply because I find it easy to write. I have dabbled in humor before, but I feel more forced writing that than I do angst. Don't get me wrong, as much as I love to emotionally scar my characters, I do like to give them some lovin' . Fluff is always fun to do, and, more recently, I've given smut a try (only twice, this far).

My fandoms are unlimited, really, but I've only written for Bones, CSI:Miami, The X Files and CSI. I plan to hit Law and Order:SVU, Friends and maybe numb3rs.

Styles? My style is strange, that's about all you need to know . It changes. I honestly don't know what my style is and if anyone knows the answer, please, tell me!

And I think flying pigs are pretty cute.

Wow, this is our new site, huh? Way cool!

So I'd better introduce me, I suppose. I don't use my real name here because it belongs to someone else who's way too serious and has far too many responibilities.

Here I like to be MaryMagdalen (she was such a fantastic woman, my hero!), usually shortened to Leni.

I've been writing (on paper and in my head) since I was a child (so for many, many, MANY years!) but only recently discovered official fanfic sites. I posted my first story in December, and three more since then.

I usually write my absolute favourite CSI:Miami - I just love getting inside Horatio's head - but I've written one New York for a challenge, and quite enjoyed it, so maybe one day...

Looking forward to being with you all on our luvverly new site!

And by the way, all you need for flying pigs is a large catapult and (after working out the trajectory, taking into account the weight of the pig, wind-speed, resistance caused by flailing trotters, etc) a strategically placed crash-mat. Simple really!

Leni

I never did say how I got into writing. Which is partly because I just don't know... I've always been writing for fun. I wrote my frist stage play in the sixth grade. It was performed in the seventh... Wrote lots of poetry, for fun, in both lower and upper elementary school.

I didn't really get in to writing stories stories until seventh or eighth grade. Then, I couldn't stop. My first ever short story was a twenty-one page bit about a wolf-dog. (I'd just read Call of the Wild for the ninth or tenth time) but I don't still have the piece. I MAY have a hard copy on file somewhere, but I wouldn't know where to go looking. That was the same year, I think, that I discovered CSI. But that's a tale for another day.

I wrote fanfiction, though I'm not sure I knew what it was at the time, the first time when I was maybe nine or ten? I wrote the sequel to The Lion King. Totally created the name Katara for it (if you know the show Avatar: Last Air Bender, Katara was MY name first.)

Though I wrote continuations of movies, tv shows (even CSI my first CSI fic happened back in like 2000 early on when Holly Gribbs first died; my first one shot.), and books all the time. (Wrote a sequel to Tale of Two Cities when I was ten and of Pride and Prejudice when I was almost eleven.) I didn't count those as real stories because they were only seven or eight pages long. It took until my very early teen-dom for me to figure out that there was such a thing as detail. Even though, things still really weren't long enough then either.

I first heard of fanfiction.net when this girl I knew (we had a mutual friend) was writing and reading Billy and Joel Madden twincest stories. If you don't know what that is, you're lucky. That was eleventh grade. Naturally, I had a warped idea of what fanfiction was. The next year I was reading/writing Balto fanfiction and actually really liked what I was seeing and writing (yeah, totally do still write for cartoons, sue me) but didn't have the nerve to join. I didn't want to be like the other girl, she was so wierd I was a little afraid of her. (Yes, incredibly wrong of me to be afraid of a quirk, I know.)

By my freshmen year of college I had all of these fanfiction stories. Though at the time it had been mostly RENT fanfiction and finally decided to make an account and get them into circulation. I thought I was good. Boy was I wrong. After spending a year or so writing for Wicked and RENT and occasionally dabbling in to other genres, mostly broadway style, I lost interest in writing for those fandoms. There's only so far you can go with a story that has already been finished... it's not like TV. I waited a while and then re-found my love of CSI and writing for it. Fell even more in love with Warrick/Catherine than I ever had before... yep. And got attached to another 'ship (Greg/Cath) and that's how this all began...

Now I write for all sorts of fandoms though.


Gilmore Girls Jess/Rory all the way! I write them together, all the time.
Degrassi: TNG (Totally absurd show. I love it. Someday I'll own them all on DVD.)
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Haven't actually started a piece for it yet, but I will. Thinking about doing an Iroh/Ozai as boys piece. And, I DO own them all on DVD.)
CSI/NY/Miami: You already knew about that though. (own almost all of CSI on DVD. Still need to get Miami and NY.)
Frasier (Toatlly no shame in my love for this show. I just haven't finished a piece to post it yet. I am a total Frasier/Roz fan and it'll be on ff.net someday.)
Cold Case (though I've never even thought of posting it.)
Wicked (been a while, but I do have a piece in the works.)
RENT (totally considering doing a RENT/NY crossover. Gross, I know. How awesome would it be to have Mark and Danny in the same place though?)
Friends (total Joey/Rachel fan. Yeah, I'm a weirdo. But when he fell in love with her... it was... so cute. Plus I want Ross for me.)

Uh. More... lots lots lots more. BUT those are the only ones I'm even thinking of doing right now.

-LLK

Hi, I'm Jackie. I don't really know how long I've been writing stories (probably forever), but I tend to do that a lot in my head...just compose random thoughts into story form for whatever situation I'm in (or as a distraction...think school!).

I enjoy writing, but writing is, in many ways, a lot like singing: some people are naturally gifted, some have worked for it, some need to work harder, and some are in the middle. The one thing all these people have in common is that it's sooooo revealing to stand solo in a crowded room and sing. I think the same often goes with writing (at least for me). Don't know if that makes any sense, but that's what I've got

Hey all, I'm Nina. I joined yesterday, but I was a slight bit intimidated to post here because I'm not really as big a CSI fan as everyone else is, haha. But I love writing and I've done it ever since I was really young. As of the moment, my fanfiction account is currently dead but I'm planning to revive it once I'm done with a fic I'm working on.

My fandoms are RENT, Moulin Rouge, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Harry Potter (yes, yes, I know), Wicked and a little of CSI Miami. I used to be a hardcore fan of Cats the Musical, but now? Not so much. XD

I started writing at age 4, when I thought, "How do people make books? I want to make one, too." So my mom got a bunch of recycled paper, stapled it together, and I drew all over it and wrote down the few words I know. The very first story I'd ever made was something called "I Love Dogs". It was about a mama dog who throws her son a birthday party. Haha.

I don't think I have a particular style. I'm still trying to develop one for my own. I don't do romance too much, only every now and then, since I've never truly been in love and I wouldn't know how you act or feel. But I'm trying to improve.

Nins wrote:My fandoms are RENT, Moulin Rouge, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Harry Potter (yes, yes, I know), Wicked and a little of CSI Miami. I used to be a hardcore fan of Cats the Musical, but now? Not so much. XD

Dude you have NO idea how cool it is that you A. know what Avatar is. B. like Wicked (my dog's name is Elphie). C. Like RENT enough to call it one of your fandoms.

So cool!

Be my friend?!


Meanwhile... if we get some Avatar fanfiction out here I'll die of happiness. I love Iroh. Did you know we're getting new episodes in like July?! That's not even that long. (It's really like my favorite show these days. I have most of the books on DVD.)


-LLK