I first started writing transgender fiction in the 1990s, shortly after I learned to use microsoft word. Prior to that, I used to draw comics featuring a "Mary-Sue" character named Cathy. She was a pretty, good-natured blonde who frequently found herself undressed in public, usually through some embarrassing misadventure. My inspiration came from The Benny Hill Show and other British comedies of the time. 'Cathy' was one of my alter egos, I often role-played vaguely risqué scenarios then committed them to paper.
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Not sure, but I think I wrote the first LKM back in 2013 after I wrote two other short stories. Generations Later, a romance and Final Waltz, a supernatural. After Final Waltz, I started thinking about a story with a TG character. I had been reading at Crystal's and hadn't discovered BC. I wrote all the way up to 20 then started working on another project at the same time. I found out later on that Crystal was no longer around along with a mention of BC. I checked it out and began reading here. I had written 41 of LKM and 2 Chrysalis before I ever posted here. Since I was having to edit my works before posting and taking the time for Pom Pom I was able to accommodate the cross-over with Jess when we both decided it would be cool to at least try. The rest is as you know.
quidquid sum ego, et omnia mea semper; Ego me.
alecia Snowfall
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Didn't start writing TG until 03 although my still incompletely published Fantasy novel was completed several years before. For many years I didn't really write very much but reading Tuck on Crystals site was the spark that set Gaby off.
I started posting Gaby and the other odd short there and on Fictionmania, it was some time later I discovered BC and now it's my primary posting outlet.
Mads
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Same here, 2003
after reading stories on Crystals site for years. A lot of work there degenerated into mostly forced fem or rehashes of boy takes a bet for something at High School (sigh) and I got bored.
Posted some frankly awful stores on Crystals but I was writing something other than reports or technical documentation for the first time in more than 30 years. My Dsylexia didn't help either.
But I stuck at it and when storysite went to bits, I went to Fictionmania but soon got bored with the endless rehashes of stories that I found my way here. A breath of fresh air with a lot of originality.
First posted here in 2010 and still working on stories some like 'The Italian Job' was started in 2009/2010 and never properly ended until recently.
Samantha
How I got into TG fiction
I really don't write much about myself on here, but decided to share. I'm fairly new to TG fiction. I've loved writing fiction since I was nine or ten though. I used to make up silly little stories, about characters setting off on adventures. Most of them had fantasy and magical elements. Although, I did enjoy space travel and other themes.
Around the age of twelve, I had a super awesome best friend. She and I would make up little plays in our heads and act them out. I introduced her to some of my stories, and she really liked them. She thought we should act them out, and so we did. Eventually I ran out of stories where it was a boy and girl, or a boy vs a girl, and ran into ones where it was two girls. This didn't seem to stop us, and I began playing along as the other girl. Together we set off on adventures.
At that point, I didn't know anything about transgender issues, but it really changed my perception. I began writing more stories with girl duos, so we could act them out together. Eventually this led to me dressing the part for some of them. Which in turn led to issues with my parents at the time. They didn't really like me doing what I was doing.
So I stepped away from it. For years, in fact. I still wrote short stories. However, if there was one that I wrote that even had an inkling of my desire to be in the role of a female character, I would hide it away. Not that they would know, but because I felt guilty about it, and worried they would know somehow.
After graduating high school, I received my first computer. It gave me the ability to search for others who had an interest in "gender swapping" stories. I found Fictionmania, as well as others, but Fictionmania became my go-to site. It had a ton of stories, which I spent hours combing through. There was a common theme, however, in that the content was largely for sexual gratification. That's not to say I found it completely reprehensible; as most of my fetishes today stem from some of those stories. But a lot of it simply left me more confused, thinking what I was interested in largely circled around sex.
I didn't give up though. I began searching for more and more realistic fiction. Stuff that was truer to life, but still fiction. I didn't mind the other stories, but I wanted something closer to what I experienced in the past. Needless to say, those stories were few and far between. Then one day, after posting yet another "searching for" query, someone told me that I should maybe write my own.
So I did. The first few I wrote just weren't going anywhere. I began to realize why few people wrote true-to-life fiction. It's hard to come up with a plot that pulls people in, unless it's a thriller or mystery. Plus, there weren't a lot of checkboxes to tick when it came time for picking "TG elements." By about my fifth story, I even fell into the rabbit hole myself. It became filled with over-the-top sexualization, and quickly developed into a sex romp. Basically, I began to feel that I had to put those fetish elements in to make it "good." It caused me to step away, and pull the two stories I had already had posted. Which weren't exactly getting much attention anyway.
A year or so later, I began developing the Bailey Saga (shameless plug; new chapters available) and constantly forced myself to not get carried away with it. While it had/has some steamy elements that slip(ped) in, I continue to force myself to cut anything that I feel goes too far. I have no problem writing that kind of story, but I wanted Bailey's story to be closer to my own experiences. And I definitely didn't run out and have sex romps during my school days. To this day, I feel the restraint is what gives the story its charm.
~Taylor Ryan
My muse suffers from insomnia, and it keeps me up at night.
Nagrij Begins...
I first started writing TG fiction in 2013 (Has it really been four years?) and on this site, with Summer Mutation or Min's tale. I had written before, but nothing that survived the great purge by fire in the early 2000's. If I wrote a TG tale back before then, I do not remember it. Then again, I don't remember much of those older tales, so I can neither confirm or deny on that score.
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1968 to 1999
In 1968 I wrote my first novel; it had a TG main character, a boy who chooses sex reassignment after a diagnosis of testicular cancer. It was a coming of age story and written in long hand during my lunch hours when I was working as a teaching assistant in a junior high school. Almost thirty years later, I discovered the AltSexStories newsgroup and started writing sex stories. This was about a decade after my comic book writing career had fizzled and I became a computer programmer. Around the same time, I lost the manuscript for that first novel of mine during a move.
A little later, I found ASStg and added tg stories to the ones I had been writing. Somewhere in there I discovered Sapphire's and then Fictionmania. In November of 1999, I started BigCloset as a place to post my assorted LGBT stories and to display the stories of some of my net friends who I thought deserved better presentation than otherwise available. That same month, Crystal began Storysite and Mindy announced the closing of Fictionmania.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Self Discovery
I started writing TG fiction in the 1990s.
My business had grown to over forty employees. When I had he said/she said disputes I often asked those involved to put their concerns in writing. There's something about writing things down that makes you have to form complete thoughts. Usually the squabble would resolve itself through the writing exercise, when one or both would realize the facts didn't support their ire.
It was a different time prior to the internet. What little I could find about being trans was distorted by having to go to an adult bookstore to find it, or suffer the embarrassment of "helpful" clerks in bookstores. With the internet to help, I decided to write TG fiction in order to gain more self-knowledge.
My first story was "published" on Crystal's Storysite. Later I started to publish stories on Fictionmania. Erin read one of my stories (Baseball Annie) and contacted me about publishing on BC. I pulled my stories from both Crystal's and FM and became exclusive to BC shortly thereafter.
About fifteen years ago I received an email from a person who had read one of my stories. She said that she was going to commit suicide and that I was the problem. She said that one of my stories, which depicted a loving family who was supportive of their daughter's transition, made her understand how bad her life was since she didn't have that kind of support. I immediately pulled all of my stories and didn't write anymore for over a year.
Then I realized that person could well be a troll or someone whose attitude had nothing to do with my story. I made the decision that my stories delivered a positive message, in most instances, and re-posted them on BC.
Erin has provided a place for me to publish my stories. I'm still learning more about myself. To properly write the stories and thereby do the research needed, I have to be able to imagine a reader. The BC readers give enough feedback that I can readily keep a reader in mind as I write. I'm very grateful for BC and support it in a number of different ways. I donate what I can: stories, stories for Hatbox, and books for Erin to publish where she receives all the proceeds.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
For myself?
1978ish. By the time the Internet came around I didn't have time to write. Maybe someday if I ever retire.
First writings
My first foray into TG fiction was in the '80s in a creative writing class. The story was Wish Lash (it's here) which I later uploaded to a BBS (remember those?) called Feminet. Even though it wasn't, I kept finding the story published (without my permission) to gay porn sites when I googled the title.
Then tired of all the fetish and forced fem TG fiction I kept coming across on-line (still pre-internet), I wrote The Reluctant Girlfriend. Though she didn't publish fiction in her newsletter, Melanie Phillips agreed to publish it in The Subversive. When the internet broke out, I found the first two stories (all I had written at the time) of Girlfriend on websites all over. Someone even went to the trouble to translate it into French. I discovered Sapphire's Place and made it the exclusive home for my stories until it's partial demise. I was asked if it would be okay if the Reluctant series be moved to BCTS.
And now these scribblings are actually getting published. I'm just amazed by it all.
Melanie
December 11, 2008 9:30 am
or possibly as early as 9.25 am
Can't remember precisely?
Can't remember precisely?
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
Old age you know
Sad really that I couldn't be more precise.
2003 and 2013
The first date was when I wrote the first of several 'Literal Genie' stories on Storysite and FM and then migrated here. There's a gap when I stopped writing short stories and then in 2013 I discovered captioning and a whole new style of writing, some of which I have posted here in link form but because of size limitations are found on my own blog and at The Haven.
Of course like many of us I have that unfinished novel sitting on my hard drive that I might finish someday.
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When did I start ...
I took a Creative Writing class in the early 80's and liked it so much that I continued. I tried to publish a book by 85' and still have that manuscript, though now it is clear that it was an awful book. My fiction would not contain any TG content until 2003, I think, and my first story, MS Frankenstein, was forced fem as I tried to work out my own identity.
Lots of us write out our pain in our stories and I am no exception.''
Gwen Brown
I started writing stories when I was 16
but didn't start making trans stories until I joined this crazy place.
this place?
Crazy? This place? Nah, I don't see it.
*goes back to digging holes in Erin's front yard wearing an armadillo suit*
quidquid sum ego, et omnia mea semper; Ego me.
alecia Snowfall
2009
As a sort of birthday present to myself.
Love, Andrea Lena
Very early
I first started writing TG fiction in the 80s. I got my first computer, a Tubo XT PC clone. I used an old word processor called "Perfect Writer." It was an old CPM program that they attempted to bring into the 16 bit world, but they never did any more than that first conversion that I used. This was all before I ever got internet access.
I attempted to get a story published at Empathy Press in Seattle. I never even got a rejection slip.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
1999
I had already begun posting on ASSM, my first in 1996. I was writing different types of stories with different plots in different genres, and I wrote my first TG story, "John's Living Nightmare", in 1999. I began writing its sequel, "Alice's Revenge", a little later, along with lots of other stories. It become one of dozens begun but never finished.
At some point along the way, I discovered Crystal's Storysite, BCTS (founded by a familiar figure from ASS*), Fictionmania, SRU, BB, etc. There was also a period during which I was mostly away from reading and writing, in favor of something else. I'm not sure of the timing of all of this, but in 2008, I got to fuming about various stories where transformation (sometimes with mind control) was used as punishment, and the subject thanked her punishers. I was "motivated" by some BB stories to write my own BB story of a miscarriage of justice. (Working title: "Miscarriage of Justice", with a parallel story from the younger brother's viewpoint, "Miscarriage of Sibling".) (I was also motivated to begin a Naked in School story, for similar reasons.) I worked, off and on, on those and many other stories. The primary story fizzled out, the parallel story ballooned, and became a huge jumble for a while. I had long periods of not writing. I also had to make huge revisions. I think I wrote at least three different versions of July 4th at BB. (I realized after writing it, Elrod would have had a cow with my first version.) It finally settled down into something coherent. (And it was getting easier to think up scenes and write them.)
Of course, then it needed Elrod's approval and some more revision. (Also, I cited canon stories to keep some things in.) Finally it was posted as my 2nd TG story, "A Bikini Beach Summer", on FM in 2014. I then posted it here at Elrod's suggestion.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
1988 on an Apple 2GS
Traded them to Echo Publications for other books.
Boys will be girls... if they're lucky!
Jennifer Sue
I've been writing on and off
I've been writing on and off since I was in grade school, but my first attempts at tg fiction occurred probably a few years after I graduated high school around 2006. I gave up most of those early efforts and it wasn't until 2011 that I was finally able to complete my first tg story and post it on fictionmania, tgstorytime and here.
Have delightfully devious day,
Hmmm
I wrote my first bit of creative writing when I was eleven, in my grade 5 creative writing class in the fall of '77. The story was nothing special, but I ended up with a fairly decent mark for it as I was one of maybe four or five kids in the class who made an honest effort.
My writing continued bit by bit over the years, largely in creative writing classes like that first one.
I can't remember exactly when, but I wrote my first TG story at some point in the mid-'80s. if I remember correctly, I didn't like how it turned out (rather sexual which is odd as I have had a very low libido since the early '80s), so I trashed it and wrote other things.
The first piece of TG writing that I kept was a poem I wrote in 2004. I'm not sure where it is at the moment, so I can't tell you the title. If I did know where it was, I would very likely be posting it and a few others here on BCTS.
As for my first TG story, that would have been August 2 of 2014 when I published the first piece of Adams Daughters here on BCTS. Like the poetry, I don't know where my handwritten chapters are for that, so I won't be able to post any more until I find them.
I hadn't written anything with TG content for about two years after I posted the first two parts of Adams Daughters, unless you count rewriting the second part in August of last year. That changed when I posted the first chapter of Home Is Where The Heart Is on December 4th.
Since that time, I've posted 42 other chapters or pieces here. I can't recall ever writing as much as I've been doing here since last December.
The Late 90s
Toward the end of my first marriage and during the interregnum I mostly wrote TG porn as a substitute for my non-existent sex life. (For a couple of years most of Penthouse's TG letters were mine.) When I remarried my thoughts became more pure and I re-wrote Darlene without most of the sex when I discovered BC. I've been at it ever since with the exception of a 5 year dry spell a while back where the words just wouldn't come.
90s
I submitted a story to the transformation story archive in the mid 90s. It was not accepted because the host at that time preferred furry transforms. I did get a story on Nifty soon after, but was surprised a year later that it had used my real name. I asked to have it pulled.
A few stories on Fictionmania, and more than 200 story starts on my hard drive. When I retire, hopefully some of those will be published.
Dawn
Belinda
Have you heard of “Belinda”? She was a comic strip in the “Mirror” newspaper around the late 50s, she was always having accidents that left her in her skimpies.
Glenda Ericsson