Harry Potter is what got me started back in college while waiting for OotP to be released, I wanted more, and discovered fanfiction. There was one, I wanted more of, but the author did as fanfic authors tend to do, post less and less frequently as time goes on; so, I took it upon myself to write a story, based on that fanfic (it’s *NOT* posted here, nor will be because it wasn’t authorized by the author). Realized that I enjoyed it, started a sequel, before, like fanfic authors, I got stuck and, well, that fanfic’s yet to be finished. Fast forward to a few years ago, I started a rather smutty sci-fi/original PWP that developed a crude plot, but then realized that the circumstances around creating that setting would be interesting, so we’ve now got my current series of stories.
Shortly after I had started writing fanfic, I did come to realize that the creative writing assignments, I did enjoy, the others...not so much If I come across any of those assignments, I’m definitely going to type them up to save them for posterity (or, figure out how to read those discs – I think I still have them, but its a non-standard format).