Later Than Expected

Good afternoon. This post is coming a little later than expected (or what I hoped for). Weekends are my days to sleep in and I slept in until (gulp) 1:00PM before I finally got up. Though I did just get done with a 90-minute writing blast. So, I suppose that counts for something. After all, I need some time to sleep with working three jobs during the week.

For now, I'm working on finishing up a few fanfictions that I've got going on. I know, fanfictions aren't nearly as creatively intensive as, say, original work. But, it at least has me writing which is part of the point. And at this point, I'll take anything that keeps me writing. Plus, if I don't get these done, I don't think I'll be able to concentrate on original work. 

A lot of writer's have varying ideas on fanfiction. I've heard some creators of worlds totally dislike fanfiction and see it as vulgar. While some creators of worlds love the fact that people love their work so much that they want to disappear into it.

In my opinion, not that I'm a creator of worlds, but I think writing of any kind is a good thing. If it takes creating characters and putting them into an existing world to get your writing going, it's not particularly a bad thing. Now, saying that, I think there's a problem if you're writing nothing BUT fanfiction. Luckily, for me, I've got as many fanfictions going as original pieces. My problem is following through and completing anything. The only original piece I've finished is the 50k word novella I wrote for NaNoWriMo 2011. And I haven't completed a fanfiction to date.

I'm working on it! No one said writing would be easy!