Nancy's World

Hi, readers! I'm Nancy, co-author of this behemoth of a fanfic, entitled "Between The Lines". It's only my third fanfic (not including the all unfinished ones), and my first colaboration with other authors, and I have to say it has been an incredible and invaluable experience. The girls have showed me new perspectives to take, new words for my vocabulary and new dimensions to explore.

Like Rachel, I used to be really embarrassed about liking the Power Rangers as much as I did. When I first started watching it, I could say "Ah, my little brother likes it." But eventually, his interest waned and I was forced to face my closet passion alone. Having toyed with short-story writing before, I wrote what was actually my first fanfic, which I called "First Crush". It was pretty much exactly like the show, except with the addition of a character who I admit was the incarnation of myself. It wasn't very imaginitive however--I was still too worried about what others would think if they knew I had done this. My sister and fellow aspiring writer (link to her homepage from mine) was the only one who knew.

Anyhow, one day I got inspired again and started writing what would be an enormous epic of a story. I don't think it had a title, but it was forty pages of looseleaf paper long. I was amazed that this piece of work had come from my brain, and that was when I first started to consider myself a writer.

When we finally got online in March of this year ('97), the first thing I discovered was Manny Perez's Morphin Grid Power Rangers Fanfiction Page. I was blown away! Some of the stories were lame but some, like the Purple Ranger Series by Akiko, astounded me. I couldn't believe someone had created such a powerful piece of work out of my favorite silly little kids show! In April, I finished my first real fanfic, entitled "Just Doing My Job" which you can read on my homepage. Boy was I ever proud of me!

Well, enough of that. I'll tell you about myself. I am sixteen years old, (17 in November), I have been an unschooler since I was six years old (read all about it on my page!), I have been studying North American Karate since March of '95, and plan to get my Shodan (Black Belt) this coming summer. Right now, my life is taken up mainly by my volunteer work at the local Cable Company where I co-produce the sports segment of a new show called Plugged In! (exclamation included). The three minute segment promotes and highlights new or unique sports in the area, like indoor rock climbing (the premiere). Call it my education. Right now I feel pretty overwhelmed by the "Producer" title slapped on my forehead, and the responsibility it entails--but I know I can only learn from my mistakes and that I'm getting better every day. You could say I'm a White Belt at Producing. :Þ

Anyhow, that's enough about me. There's more at my homepage which is due for an update. You can even see a picture of me there, so go on over!

I hope you like(d) Between The Lines. It took a good couple months out of our lives and several million brain cells--but it was worth every one. Thanks for stopping by (notice I didn't say "Catch ya on the flipside")!