Afterword

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First of all, I would like to thank everyone that took the time to read this story. I wrote this when I was in the eighth grade, and it still amazes me whenever I log into Wattpad that I'm still receiving notifications and comments and messages from people praising my writing. 

Fanfiction is underrated and often a crapped upon genre of writing. I study creative writing in college now, and I still find it hard to say aloud that I sat down and wrote a novel-length piece of work that has hundreds of thousands of reads. And why? because it's fanfiction. And fanfiction is supposed to be hidden behind usernames and anonymous websites.

Right?

As I've dived deeper into the world of writing, I've realized that it does not matter what you are putting down on a page as long as you're writing something. If something inspires you, then let that creativity flow! At worst it sits in the notes section of your laptop until you stumble upon it a few months later. Maybe it's bad or maybe it's good. It doesn't really matter either way because, at the time, it was something that excited you enough to put it down on paper. At best, it may lead to the basis of your future publication. While I work on my own original writing, I have not stopped to publish little one-shots and shorter multi-chapter fics here and there. There is no community more supportive than the readers of fanfiction, and support is all an author needs to keep that creativity flowing. 

Whether you read or write fanfiction, just remember that you are still reading and writing. It doesn't have to be Homer or Jane Austen to be considered valid.

I stopped watching NCIS: LA around season 4 when school began to pick up, but I recently found out the ship went canon. Is there anything better than a show that surpassed the expectations set in a fanfiction? 

Thank you for your comments, votes, and continued support.

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