I'm a design consultant for a painting company, so I spend a lot of time in other people's homes. This morning, I met with a woman who had the new Bree Tanner book on her counter and I asked her if she thought it was any good.
Her response: *nervous laughter....* "Well... Uh... I don't know if you know what fan fiction is...???" Please say yes, or I'm about to look like a HUGE TOOL OMG.
Me: "Heh... oh yeah, I've read a few stories online..." I mean, I've written two one-shot contest entries (they won some awards!) and have a full length multi-chapter that I'm working on. I'm also a member of several online communities that are SOLELY DEVOTED TO TWIFIC. In fact, you might read the campfire that I start about this tonight.
Her: "Well... it kind of reminds me of some of that." Like... it reminds me of the stories that aren't as well written that no one cares about.
We then proceeded to discuss the Twilight series and it's new addition, and it was a very pleasant conversation. We talked about the first time we read the whole series - we both finished it in under a week - and how women identify with Bella's fangirling over Edward because ALL GIRLS DO THAT. You know you had a NKOTB poster in your room... don't even try to lie.
Now. I know there have been other campfires about this... but it's Friday and this is my first experience with 'Real Life' and the 'Twific Life' colliding, so I'm going to write about it.
WTF was with that?!? Why couldn't I tell her that I write TwiFic? In all honesty, it probably would have made both of us more comfortable... but it just came out of left field! I was totally not expecting that to come out of her mouth. Am I worried she'll think I'm a loser? I don't even know.
Has this ever happened to you... and WHAT DID YOU DO?!? OMG I choked