In Regards to the Poll

So, my poll has received enough votes on it now, that I think I can write this to explain why I made the poll in the first place, as I am sure some have wondered (okay, probably not, but, for the sake of my ego, I choose to remain in my own fantasy world here ).

To explain this, I should probably give a bit of history.

For two thirds of my life, I was absolutely not artistic in the slightest, I wanted to be artistic, but, I just wasn't. Science, Technology, those were my things during primary and secondary school.
I lived in the left side of my brain, stuck there even.

When I was 16 I decided to start exercising the right side of my brain a little, I knew I couldn't draw, and I knew I didn't have a camera, so, I took up writing.
I had stories to tell, and I thought I could tell them.
The thing is, at 16, I didn't have the maturity or patience to actually write any story of merit, so, I started writing poetry, which was a lot easier (rather, it took a lot less time ).

I eventually realised that I wasn't that good at poetry and I still couldn't plan out a story line well enough to write more than a handful of scenes of a story before they were put onto the back burner, thankfully, around this time, I had just discovered dA (about a month before my Birthday), and a few months after, I got myself a camera.
There I played with Apophysis, and 'digital art' (or, what I thought was digital art ), and over time I learned how to use my camera and advance my technical skills (at the least) to upgrade and, well, get to where I am today, a photographer.

However, always in the back of my head, was the voice telling me to write, but, being disillusioned with my previous experience of writing, I tended to ignore it.

About a year ago, I decided that I wanted to really start writing again. Feeling that I probably had the maturity and patience to actually write a story from beginning to end, but I also had my doubts, the aforementioned disillusionment in my writing was holding me back.
I realised, that my problem was that I was expecting too much of myself (as usual), I was trying to create epic and expansive science fiction (at least, I thought it was epic and expansive ), when I've never even completed a short story before, let alone a full length novel.

It was about a few weeks ago, that I realised I had another option. Fan Fiction.
I knew that it was generally looked down upon by many (though the poll answers seem to be contrary to this conception), but, I also knew that it would help me do one thing I've never done before. Write a story and finish it.

Writing fan fiction has a major advantage for me, it gives me rules to follow, while giving me enough freedom to weave my own story. Being set in a pre-defined universe means that my stories have to follow the rules in that universe, there are characters, places and back story all ready and waiting to be used.
Now, sure, I could create my own universe and my own characters and my own back story, but doing that is a daunting task to the uninitiated, particularly for someone who still almost exclusively lives in the left side of his brain. I wanted to have the experience of completing a story under my belt, because I know that that would go along way to dispelling my disillusionment.

If you're interested, the universe I have chosen to use is the Avatar: the Last Airbender universe. The main reason why is because I like writing science fiction, so, writing something that isn't science fiction forces me outside of my comfort zone a little, which will help me gain experience in writing, since the path of least resistance has never really helped me learn things outside of my natural skill set.

I don't expect everyone (or anyone) to like what I write, but, I think I should at least try it this way before spending days and weeks planning an 'original universe', only to potentially fail or be panned, which, needless to say, wouldn't help my disillusionment issue