Hi there :)

If you are here then I assume you are really, really bored or maybe just the inquisitive type :P

My name is Tara although online I have been known to go by a few names. My most common is “LovinJackson” Why? I’ll get to that. And I am a writer … or am aspiring to be one. It’s my one main love.

First off a little about me. Well as you know my name is Tara. I was born in Melbourne Australia on the 21^st of September 1984 and have lived here ever since. I love it here. Not just in Australia but in Melbourne and cant ever see me wanting to live anywhere else in the world.

I grew up in your average broken family. My Dad and Mum separated when I was six years old and me Dad moved out of the house, leaving me to live with my Mum (Debbie), younger brother (Matthew) and Nan (Pauline). Life isn’t always bad when the family breaks up. In my case my brother and I got to see my Dad every weekend and probably spent more time with him then than we did when he was living with us … and we didn’t have to deal with the fighting and arguing that two waring adults tend to do in an unhappy relationship.

My brother, Matthew, is two years younger than me and despite his annoying, oblivious nature; he’s a pretty decent guy. We have a close relationship that I wouldn’t trade for the world and now as we have gotten older? We are really good friends as well as brother and sister.

My Dad remarried five years ago to a pretty cool woman called Sue. With that union brought my Step-Brother into the family. Liam is fourteen years younger than me.

 During the years my family and myself have been fans of many things. In Primary School it was “Bonanza”, in High School it was “The X-Files” and “Star Wars”. Somewhere in the middle there was “Starsky and hutch”, “The Young Riders” and “Tour Of Duty” made an appearance. We’ve always been big television series lovers. But it was Star Wars that started my entry into the world of fandom and writing.

Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice. It was a series of books written by Jude Watson that gripped me. The tale of Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. These stories were written for teenagers but I still love them as I fell in love with Ewan McGregor and Liam Neeson’s portrayal of the characters in “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace”.

I wanted to know more about their relationship, about Obi-Wan’s training under this powerful Jedi and Jude Watson gave me exactly that. She was a writer that knew the characters, loved the characters and knew what us readers (and dare I say Fan Girls) wanted to read. I flew through the books but it wasn’t enough. Just like with a TV show there were situations I would have loved to see these characters deal with.

So I did an online search for more books, knowing there wasn’t any more at the time but still living in hope for a nice surprise. It wasn’t the kind of surprise I was looking for, but maybe even a better one …

I found a website with hundreds of fan written stories. The Jedi Apprentice Fan Dimension (http://jafd.nsio.net/) I delved into this fan written world with glee and haven’t turned back yet … and so was my introduction into the world of Fan Fiction.

Once I found this site and had read through almost every single decently written story, I started looking for others on all the different shows I loved. At this point in time I had been in the middle of my Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis obsession (my biggest obsession outside of Supernatural to date) and found some sites dedicated to the show and some with some awesomely talented writers.

It got me itching to write. In Primary School and well into High School I had always loved to write. In creative writing my teachers were always awed by the length of my creations compared to other students and I loved it. English was always my favourite subject and anytime we got to work on creative writing, I was in heaven.

So I sat down and attempted to write a Stargate SG-1 Fic and to my utter disappointment it just wouldn’t work. It didn’t sound right and it was coming out forced. I didn’t understand why because I LOVED that show sooo much. I thought maybe that I just didn’t have it in me anymore. But I wasn’t to be swayed by my own inability. Since SG-1 obviously didn’t want to work with me I sat down in my small little apartment and got to work on a Stargate Atlantis story. It worked, it flowed and I enjoyed the characters so much. I was happy. I was also inexperienced.

I know I still have my grammatical errors now days (that I do attempt to find and conquer before posting lol) but it was nothing to what it was like back when I first started. I attempted to post my first story to one of the Stargate Atlantis FanFiction websites called “Wraithbait” they sent it back asking me to clear it up first. I fixed it up, sent it back and it still wasn’t good enough … so I thought “Stuff it.”

That’s when I found http://www.fanfiction.net/ and my new life started. Now don’t misunderstand me, FanFic.net isn’t somewhere to just dump whatever crap you have written without even a care about its mistakes. Sure, some people do treat it like that but there were no such rules like on the other site.

I signed up and the name “LovinJackson” was born. I chose that name because SG-1’s Daniel Jackson was my number one guy and this was just a fun past time for me. It wasn’t anything serious, y’know?

I got my first taste at posting my work online and it was nerve wracking and I only got, I think, 2 reviews … but that didn’t even matter. I got spurred on by the enjoyment of writing something that so many others could see, good or bad responses. I wrote a sequel to that story and then a follow on … and then another.

So then this new show – “Supernatural” - starts advertising and my grandmother tells me all about it and how she thinks I would love it (having always been a fan of the supernatural/paranormal genre). I shook my head, I couldn’t be bothered with another show like that since they already had a number of new shows out there (Medium and Ghost Whisperer had just started) But then Channel 10 kept playing it after “Numb3rs”, a show that I did watch.

I admit it wasn’t bad but I am stubborn. If I say I’m not interested I probably won’t admit that I am until the last straw. That last straw happened when my grandmother told me that she thought that I would like the younger brother in the show. She thought I would like Sam Winchester…

Well I had to check this out now because I couldn’t believe that my grandmother would be right about that (we have a funny relationship like that lol) I watched and I watched and I came back to my Nan asking her if she was crazy. There was no way I liked Sam (no offence) Dean was definitely the hotter brother.

So I was starting to get hooked. Then I had to go away on a family holiday with my Dad, Step- Mum and Step-Bro to Mildura. Dad had brought his laptop and I turned it on … I had that itch again but this time not for Stargate.

I started writing a Supernatural story. I am actually pretty sure that the first part of the story I wrote that day in the campervan was scrapped, but it started something.

I got back that Monday night just in time to shower and rush around to my mother’s to catch the season 1 episode “Faith” and from THAT episode? I was doomed to worry and be involved with these brothers for the next 5 years (and for however much longer it runs). And what a five years it has been.

Since then I have written many stories and made a name for myself online.

On FanFiction.net as LovinJackson and Youtube as LovinDean I’ve made a name for myself because people actually like my work … that still astounds me sometimes. When I started writing I didn’t realise that it would become such an important part of my life for me. I wanted to change my usernames to one simple name … but chickened out. I kept LovinJackson as it pays homage to one of my first major obsessions and it’s who I am now ;)

So til this day I make the occasional music video for my show :P, I write, and I am learning more and I am writing better, improving and edging to get to a point where one day I want to work on something original and totally my own.

I need to thank Supernatural, its fans and the wonderful friends I wouldn’t have met without the show for bringing me to this point (you know who you are). Because of them and this show I have taken a love for crafting a story and made it into a serious hobby that I hope will one day grow into a serious objective. It’s not really about being published for me (although that would be great) but about producing well written work, something that is fun and something I am proud of.

I keep thinking I can’t call myself a “writer” per se because I ONLY write FanFiction but I am writer because that is what I do and that is what I am.

So that’s me :) If you stroll through the site, I hope you enjoy what you see :)