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Sab
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As you've probably figured out, my name is Sab (If you call me Sabrina, I WILL kill you). I'm a normal 14 year old girl living in the suburbs of Sydney. Well, normal if you forget my undying love for Zac Hanson, my strange taste in music and my obsession with Hanfic, oh, and my fits of insanity and depression, I'm pretty much a normal gal.
Hanfic has changed my life, for the better or for the worse, I'm not quite sure. It has given me an obsession and pastime that I can't quite seem to shake and has introduced me to one of my best friends (or rather vice versa).
I'm sure you just want me to wrap this up quickly, so if you want my entire life story, you're even more crazy than I. I'm just going to finish with this quote which pretty much sums me and my feelings up now,
'The sorrow that lingers deep inside my soul makes each day passing so hard to control'
– All I Need Is You, The Moffatts

Jenn
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What can i say? I'm Jenn and I promise that I won't quit on you guys like I did in the first ones. But it's me to be over-emotional and if I had the password to this site, you'd all realise that. I've gotten dragged into the awards out of friendship with Sab, an unusual thing because I'm basically not writing anymore, or at least no one knows where my site is. But, when I was writing, I was a part of lyndsay and jenn's hanson fan fiction, later renamed to cookiecutterworld.com and now I run broken princess, a little known fan fic site started only about two months ago.
I'd give you a lovely story about how I started writing, but I don't know. I do however remember writing the prologue of my first story sitting by the fire one day when I was sick, so if the worse happens, I can blame it on whatever drugs I was on at the time. But hanfic has made me some of the best friends I have ever had and despite the fact I've changed and what I'm writing about has changed, I don't want to stop. As for why I write about hanson? Simply . . . because nothing is as perfect as it seems. And as fans, we idolise them so often to the extent they're not human and if people can just consider that . . . maybe things will change and we can respect them even more. Does anyone else find that as crazy as I do? I make them depressed and angry and sad so people can respect them. I also never claim to make sense other than in my brain :)


Lauryn
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Just like Sab and Jenn, I hale from Australia. Too bad I don't live in Sydney *chuckles*, that would be taking coincidence a little too far.
In the words of Poppy Z. Brite, I've been writing as long as I can't remember. I think I wrote my first story at the age of three, something about Albert Einstein and a goat that liked to steal apples *shrugs*; I was a weird kid. I'm eighteen now - call on second grade arithmetic and it should tell you I've been writing approximately fifteen years.
I came to the online hanfic scene a little after it became the hottest thing since burnt toast, around March/April of '98, however I'd already been writing (embarrassingly self-indulgent) hanfic for about nine months. As good a gestation period as any. I've continued to write for the last two-and-a-half years, with a gradually increasing timespan between updates, but at least I'm still here :-)
Hanfic and I have changed a lot over the last two-and-a-half years; we're into the 'Second Wave' of hanfic now, I've chosen the Monty Python over the soapies, and in 2001 I'll be strolling up for my first day of tertiary education, studying for a Bachelor of Creative Arts with Jenn at the University of Wollongong, majoring of course, in creative writing. I'm much looking forward to it.
My dream in life is to write the classic work of the twenty-first century, and be blessed with a son called Dylan. And I don't think it's all that much to ask for ;-)