30 Days of HP: Day 9
Day 9: Fanfiction: Discuss
I don’t know if this is going to sound totally pathetic, but HP fanfic saved me. It did. I was in a really, really bad place my junior year of high school, and I discovered fanfiction, and I started writing it, and having that outlet saved me. Honestly, I don’t know where I would be emotionally if I hadn’t had fanfiction as an outlet these past five-and-a-half years. It actually scares me to try to imagine where I’d be, because I know it wouldn’t be any place good (which is saying something, because it’s not like I’m in a particularly great place as it is). I haven’t read a lot of HP fanfic since DH came out, because it was something I read to get my HP fix while I waited for the series to finish, and I don’t feel that compulsion now that it’s over. But I have written a few pieces, and it’s really helped me process a lot of stuff that’s happened to me over the past few years. And as awful as the stuff I wrote in high school is, it accomplished what I needed it to accomplish at that point in my life, so I don’t regret it at all. Fanfiction has been such an important part of my life since I discovered it, and I’m really glad it exists, and I really love Jo for giving it her blessing.
I don’t know if this is going to sound totally pathetic, but HP fanfic saved me. It did. I was in a really, really bad place my junior year of high school, and I discovered fanfiction, and I started writing it, and having that outlet saved me. Honestly, I don’t know where I would be emotionally if I hadn’t had fanfiction as an outlet these past five-and-a-half years. It actually scares me to try to imagine where I’d be, because I know it wouldn’t be any place good (which is saying something, because it’s not like I’m in a particularly great place as it is). I haven’t read a lot of HP fanfic since DH came out, because it was something I read to get my HP fix while I waited for the series to finish, and I don’t feel that compulsion now that it’s over. But I have written a few pieces, and it’s really helped me process a lot of stuff that’s happened to me over the past few years. And as awful as the stuff I wrote in high school is, it accomplished what I needed it to accomplish at that point in my life, so I don’t regret it at all. Fanfiction has been such an important part of my life since I discovered it, and I’m really glad it exists, and I really love Jo for giving it her blessing.