This seems like a propitious topic to post my first message to.
This is far from the first on-line community I've joined. I always intend to lurk for a while, but being an opinionated sort of person, as soon as I join up I always seem to find something I just have to put my 2p in on.
The only way to stop me at that stage is to ignore completely anything I say - it's happened to me elsewhere, but people here always seem eager to welcome newcomers.
If I remember rightly, I only joined Zoom's MBs when I'd written about half of All Stirred Up, and was ready to start posting. I think. I already had my utterly wonderful BRs by then
, so I must have joined the fic list earlier to request help with my writing.
And before I started writing, I'd been reading stories on the archive for a couple of months.
IRC only came later, when Yvonne graciously invited me along to a fanfic spoiler session, and I had to hurry to download, install and understand mIRC in time. It took no time at all till I was thoroughly hooked and spending a lot of free time on #lanekent, and subsequently #loisclark. My husband sympathises deeply with Kathy's, though he was never foo... erm, rash enough to push me into it.
Mere
