Fanfiction

Writing is my number one passion. I love to write. I can't even begin to explain how much I need to be writing all the time. Whether it's for Imagine Life or for my fanfictions, which is where my thoughts currently are, I'm writing all the time.

I think this may have given me a leg up with content creation. I know throughout the trainings it was emphasized that one did not have to be a writer by trade to be able to do this, but it's still important to be all up on the rules of grammar, punctuation, and spelling. My constant creative writing has been a huge help to me.

I've been reading fanfics for years. Harry Potter, Twilight, Skip Beat!, Oreimo...And I write them too. If you spend any time on that site (fanfiction.net, but I'm not knocking AO3 or any of the other sites out there, it's just that fanfiction.net is the biggest and the one I first discovered) you'll start to realize that most of the proficient writers on there (I'm talking about people with multiple, highly followed & favorited stories) have something in common: We usually all end up putting into our A/N's (author's notes) something about the way we have to write because most of the time it doesn't seem like a choice.

I don't know what would happen if I didn't write. I think I'd end up going full fruit cake's anonymous. It's not like, "I feel like writing today." It's, "Go write, now." (Do you see what I did there? It's like, "Go right now", except, "Go write, now"? Get it? 'Cuz the pun is...Okay.)

I can't describe my love of fanfiction. It's right up there with my love of anime (which has led me to learning Japanese so I don't have to wait for subtitles) and reading in general; I can't tell you how I feel about these things because I don't even understand it. What would I do without anime? What would I do without K-Dramas? Where I would I be without Jane Austin and my three copies of Pride and Prejudice? Who would I be if I hadn't read each Harry Potter book 7x's? What would my life be like if I didn't own multiple copies of the entire Narnia series by C.S. Lewis?

I don't know, does it sound stupid? Crazy? I guess I feel like these things are truly part of me. I wouldn't be who I am without them. I feel indebted to those people and taking their characters + the worlds they made for them and turning them into something else is kind of like showing my appreciation. Reading something that someone else came up with feels the same. We all love these stories so much that we put enough thought into them to think of another plot, or a side story, or a total AU (alternate universe), and then put our self esteem on the line by sharing it with the world without any expectation of repayment.

Sometimes giving it your all just because you can leads to really great things!