User blog comment:BeholdtheVision/Ideas to Restart the Wiki/@comment-3476160-20150807163831

The inherent problem with this wiki is just fanfiction. There are scores of skillful writers that have left their mark on this site and formed great, beneficial relationships. Even I, who by no means is a great writer, found that this wiki is wonderful for finding roots, forming a writing style, and receiving intellectual feedback.

However, as we become more ambitious with projects we realized that what we are writing is jsut fanfiction. We can't do anything with that. We're limited by someone else's world and rules. Though not all of us may be able, we all desire our works to be seen and read, maybe even published. But with fanfiction we can't do that for obvious legal reasons.

Thus the move begins. I haven't written any percy jackson fan fiction in over a year, unfortunately. Would I like to? I don't really know. I have a stories and characters I've fallen in love with, but they're characters in someone else's world. Characters that I can't really claim authority over. It's a story that I only partially own.

I think what we all fell into was that we wanted our own work done. We wanted our own stories fueled by our own creativity. It breaks my heart truly. I love this wiki and the friends I made on it, but people move on. If a new wiki was formed where we all just wrote original stories, then I would join everybody in a heart beat.

The wiki will hopefully never die. Fanfiction is one of the greatest ways to start writing. I see it as training wheels. Through it we learn to harness our creativity to do even greater things.