My Guilty Pleasure Is Fan Fiction

I am so excited. The kind of excited where one jumps up and down and screams 'hallelujah!' really big font. Typing giant letters is making me pretty darn happy, that's for sure. I've started writing fan fiction, and I cannot decide if I like it or not. On one hand, it is practice, and practice is all the same, but it's just not . . . real. You know? Fan fiction does absolutely nothing for my creativity, even if I'm writing game fan fiction - which, in my mind, is marginally better than book or movie fan fiction - it's still fan fiction. Fan fiction is creepy. It's all about pairing up characters, like Edward Cullen and Shreck. Weird, slash pairings. Which makes me just as much a freak. Not only have I started writing it, but I actually enjoy reading it. At least, sometimes. Admittedly some parodies are absolutely historical. It is like, I hate myself for liking it. Only not that dramatic and emu-like. I realize that fan fiction is really stupid, and no good for my writing skills (especially when I could be working any one of my stories over at fictionpress). But I just cannot help reading it, squealing along with all the other psycho fan girls - and guys! - out there. So there it is, folks! Part of Me in a nutshell. Love you, and b'bye now...