It's really not a conversation-starter around the people I know. I've only ever told one person that I'm into fanfic, but he's one of my bigger computer nerd friends. I think his reaction was something like, "You mean you can stand reading on your computer screen for *that* *long*?!"
Maybe one day I'll start printing. But for now, I'm in a group that reads things like Masques in one sittting. (Took me all night, in case you're interested.)
Anyway, I told one of my friends I was into Superman and Lois & Clark, and apparently that's not exactly cool, so I keep my mouth shut. No biggie.
I never even heard the word fanfic til I started surfing the web. I wrote tons of stories in middle school to calm my tv show withdrawls, but it wasn't til I started looking up Lois & Cark right after the show ended that I found people actually wrote stories and posted them on the web.
JD
