_refugee_ this could get its own topic but since I apparently communicate with this site exclusively through Pubski I'll just throw it in here.

Alright, but is fanfiction worth it or not tho. And yes, before y'all type it up, I know I spent a sizable chunk of my sophomore year shitting out a 10,000+ story about a bunch of people online, but I also knew that it was garbage, and you knew it was garbage, and everyone knew that because it wasn't edited and really didn't have a plot of any sort and blahblahblah.

But if you are a person who considers themselves a "writer"^TM, does your perception of fanfiction change? Can you write "serious fanfiction," or is fanfiction by definition impossible to be taken seriously? Is every moment you spend writing in someone else's universe a waste of time because you should be crafting your own? Or is all writing good writing as long as you're writing because it's practice?

Granted besides referenced word vomit I've not written fanfiction since. Now I write word vomit of my own creation. The mediocrity is the same, but without the added sour aftertaste of "wtf Harry Potter wouldn't say that shit." Whether that's a win or not depends, I'm guessing.