Has it really been five years?

I thought earlier today that it was time I did something about uploading a few more stories to my fanfic site. The last zines I was published in came out over two years ago, so I don't need to worry about whether any of my stories are still under curfew, but I've been too busy to update the website for the last few months. So I pulled out the last couple of stories I wrote (both with predatrix).

The final versions of those files were saved on 16 December 2002. Five years ago today. That's how long it's been since I crossed over completely to original fic. Dear god, where did the time go?

And while I'm on the subject of writing anniversaries

Just looked it up -- and while I don't remember the exact date, yes, it's ten years ago this month that I first held in my hands a contributor's copy of something with My Story in it. My fandom was still very much a dead tree fandom when I got into it, and most of my stories were published in printzines, including my first one. I learnt a *lot* from being edited on my first couple of published stories by someone who knew what they were doing; lessons that stood me in good stead when I started writing for commercial publication. Thank you, watervole.