What makes me crazy, and this is not just for history-based fandoms, although common in them, is when fanfic writers can't be bothered (or as you might say, arsed) to do any research and so set all their fic in modern-day AUs.
Yes: that is sheer laziness. Another thing that bugs me are modern-self-insertion-character dropping into settings where that simply isn't appropriate. In something like Doctor Who, it can be made to fit with the universe depicted, but any more vapid "modern girls falling into Middle-Earth" and I will ask Bob if I can borrow the Orcrist to slice and dice 'em!
I also did a lot of early scribbling in my notebooks when I was a kid, and played make-believe in the backyard or in the woods behind my house. Quite a bit of it was proto-fanfic; having adventures in Narnia, etc.
Same here, using old desk-diaries to write in! But I didn't hear the term 'fanfic' until the 1990s, by which time I was in my 30s, and had thought it was just a quirk of mine. (Just as I didn't know until I was in fandom circles online that h/c wasn't just a personal quirk, either!)
I'd like to think it helped me improve as a writer for when I did get online at age 16.
I didn't get online until 1997-ish, by which time I was in my early 30s.
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Date: 2014-03-14 01:42 am (UTC)