Image by >^..^< maggz >^..^< via Flickr I just finished reading dejla's Fanfic writing manifesto, and I wonder if I have been a little hard on myself. I stopped writing fanfic a long time ago because I believed the hype... I wanted to be a "serious writer" and I listened to all of the voices that told me that "real" writers don't write fanfic... well, maybe they should.