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From: Kenjiko2@aol.com
Full-name: Kenjiko2
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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:59:35 EDT
Subject: Re: [FFML] Why Write Fanfics?
To: msimmons@bcgroup.net
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In a message dated 7/20/99 2:54:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
msimmons@bcgroup.net writes:

Why do you write fanfics anyway?
 

	Hmm... now THAT'S an interesting question.

	I do it for the glory and the sheer ego-boost from all my devoted 
fans.  The groupies that throng around my door don't hurt either.  And then 
there's the millions of dollars to be made in the professional fanfic 
industry.

	YEAH, RIGHT.

	Actually, I do it because I think of something I find funny or 
interesting or dramatic or whatever, and I like it.  So I put it down on 
paper to share with others of similar bent.  (Well, I put it down on disk, 
but you get the idea.)  Anyhow, I just started it for simple giggles, but the 
response to my work created another reason-- the pleasure and gratification I 
get from the positive responses I recieve.  (Ok, the Ego-boost part wasn't 
TOTALLY facetious.)

	And it's fun!  Writing strange and deranged FF is fun!  So is writing 
not strange or deranged, too.  If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't do it.

	So, there's my POV on that question.

	Oh, and groupies are accepted with thanks, just in case.

	Kenko