I live in the UK and I've written quite a lot of fanfiction - mainly Man From Uncle although having finally been bought The Matrix Trilogy as a birthday present my first uploaded story seemed to write itself. Having said that there are loads of other tv shows and series that I just adore. Mainly, The Wild Wild West and Scarecrow and Mrs King especially at the moment when I'm working on half a dozen stories from these series. (My husband says I give him brain sprain.) Anyway, my other stories are still in the process of being worked on so not quite sure when I'll get them up.

I suppose I've always written fan fiction although when I was younger the internet wasn't as available as it is now so I didn't have the ability to publish them. Most of my early fan fiction was appalling - badly written and usually with a romantic twist. I still have a habit of adding the romantic twist but these days it's not as important. I suppose that I've always had the penchant for the happy ending. I know that life doesn't turn out like that but this is one of the reasons I believe that fiction should be - life is hard enough as it is without reading a story that leaves you in floods of tears.

There's not much to write - I seriously wish that I could sell my FanFic stories - but then probably so does everyone else. I've got about 10 in my head at the moment and the real problem is not so much writing them down - but how to write them down. But then us all being readers (and writers) we know about that too. I just seem to have so much to do and so little time...

For everyone who reads and posts reviews for my stories they are greatly appreciated. I know that for some people that writing Fanfiction isn't really writing but for those of you who do read and appreciate it, I value your support and reviews. Many thanks.

Thought I better update my profile with everything I'm working on at present, believe me if I could clone myself and make all the different parts of me work on various subjects I would. Then I'd get so much more done. But there's only one of me so you'll have to wait for other stories to be posted up and I shall try to post them up completed.

I seriously considered shutting this account down. A lot of reasons, but if I were to mention them, people would say that I'm overreacting and that 'It's only Fan Fiction' and 'Why are you so upset?' Well, one reason is that I actually had the story vetted by a Beta Reader who made no mention or criticism of the story itself. So when I did get some very (almost) nasty criticism I was quite shocked. Now readers of this will say that I'm just feeling sorry for myself and that it doesn't matter. Well perhaps it doesn't to others - but it did to me. I find that I seem to attract either very strange (weird might be a better word) reviews or not particularly nice ones. Again, most readers would say that I'm too soft for my own good. Perhaps. I just don't see the need to write such hurtful reviews. I will freely admit that maybe I'm overreacting; certainly I've got no sympathy from anyone on this Forum. And some stories I only posted on Archive of Our Own another FanFic site, because the response on there has never been as vile as some of the responses on here.

So, what to do next? At the moment I'm going to leave it, and I may post more stories up. I may not. As I said, the reaction to this story I worked on, and made such an effort on really upset me. For months. Still does on one level, but there isn't much I can do about that. Anyway, anything more would simply look like I'm just feeling sorry for myself. For the moment I have nothing more to write.