You're all fake writers!
The lovely shoiryu dragged me back to the steaming cesspit joy that is elfwoodrant, where I stumbled across ... this:

Fanfiction is, at it's very best, nothing more than a tool for learning to write. The widest circulation it should EVER get is whoever's in your email address book. Send it out to your friends, get an opinion, and leave it at that. Things like fanfiction.net or whatever it is just make people take it too seriously, as if it's an end in and of itself, when in fact it's nothing more than a warmup for really, really writing.

Thank you, beatprogeny, for your insight.

P.S. Yes, this is the same beatprogeny from this wank. Only he can shine so brilliantly.