Helen wrote...
So, tell me, why does a peerson write it out if they don't care if anyone reads it? As a record of their imaginings? I'm seriously curious.
I starting writing fanfic before I knew that's what I was doing, just to amuse myself. I'm not sure there's a simple answer why though. I write stories I wish someone else had written so I could read them...sort of...
I write them down beacuse while I have a vivid (some might say overactive) imagination I also have a appalingly bad memeory and short attention span and I like to be able to go back to a particular idea without finding it's vanished.
It's only very recently I've put any of my fanfic out there for other people to read.
Leia (My fic is at http://user.totalise.co.uk/~leiafee as we're on the subject)