As an aspiring writer with a long road ahead of me, my personal opinion is that writing fan fiction wouldn't be very helpful. In fact, it might be a detriment. Going through the world creation process and fleshing out characters that sprang from my imagination was so much more fulfilling (for me personally) than it would have been to, for example, write a story involving Pug and Kulgan or some such. I absolutely love those characters, but they're not mine. I'd rather create my own sandbox than play in someone else's.
-- Sent from my Crappy Laptop (tm) using a poor excuse for a web browser.
