Oh, as a student. *g* I've been looking at Eng. lit. courses - well, I've been looking at degrees and MAs, depending on what my past education qualifies me to aim for. Or possibly history, which I gave up during A'levels and then really regretted giving up. Or possibly more on the animation thing, but that's more complicated, expensive, and possibly ultimately useless. (I was going to do the next level of animation course at my local college, but they cancelled the course due to lack of interest. Bah.)

And yeah - I'd sort of think that doing fanfic would be helpful, in that it's good to practice, etc - but some things about it work a completely different way from original fic. I actively avoid creating original main characters for fanfic, for example. It just... the fit is all wrong. Fanfic, for me, is more about exploring in depth the characters that I feel I know well - a skill that would be all very useful if I could just write some original characters of my own, get to know them well, and then be able to play with them.

I need to swipe that "Writing iz fun, trufax" icon I inspired annerb to make. :)