Within a few months, After had been read more than a million times, and by the time she was halfway through her second book online, Todd told those close to her. But she couldn’t keep it a secret forever.
I’m writing a book about Harry Styles.’ It just doesn’t make sense unless you’re in a fandom or understand,” she says. “I felt like it was silly if I was like, ‘Oh. She went by the screenname Imaginator1D and didn’t tell a soul about what she was doing.
After that, Todd would write wherever she could: at the grocery store, at the doctors’ and dentists’ offices, in the car. She wrote the first chapter at home on a Sunday evening after coming back from Target. Todd wrote 70 percent of After on her phone. “It was more along the lines of a modern-day Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights than anything to do with the actual Harry Styles,” she says. Inspired by “punk edits” of Styles on the internet (fan edits where celebrities are photoshopped and covered with tattoos and piercings), Todd wrote a fanfiction where Styles wasn’t in a boy band but was a college bad boy who seduces-and eventually falls in love with-Tessa, an innocent freshman who lives in his dorm. As she waited anxiously for her favorites to update with new chapters, she decided to write her own fanfiction to entertain herself in the meantime. It was 2013 and Todd had pretty much read every One Direction fanfiction on the internet. “It was like a black hole-a good black hole,” she says.
“I immediately was like, ‘Aw, the curly one is so cute.’ And my husband always liked Zayn because he was the cool mysterious one,” Todd says.Īround that time, Todd also discovered Wattpad, the motherland of internet fanfictions, which Todd tore up and down for stories about One Direction. As she became older, she devoured fanfictions about Harry Potter, Roswell, Twilight and The Hunger Games before discovering her one true love in 2011: One Direction, a baby-faced British boy band she came across while listening to “What Makes You Beautiful” in the car on the way to Walmart with her husband. “I’ve been reading fanfiction before I even realized what fanfiction was.” From then on, Todd was hooked. “I think I thought I was reading about their actual lives,” Todd says. She was a preteen and discovered the blogging site LiveJournal, which housed hundreds of fictional, fan-written stories about TV show casts, book characters and celebrities.
The first fanfiction Anna Todd ever read was about Hanson.
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