User blog comment:AverageHero/Au Revior, Adios, Goodbye./@comment-1874924-20131011212700

I'm sorry to hear that you're leaving, but you know where to find us if you change your mind. Keep in mind, too, that writing isn't the only way to make a meaningful contribution here.

Let's face it, Total Drama is a tough show for a novice writer to write for, at least here. Why? Because of the heavy preference for competition stories full of original characters. Although there are exceptions, most of the better competition stories are at least 50,000 words by the time they're done, which is long enough to be considered a novel by most standards. Add to that the task of developing a (sometimes literal) boatload of original characters, and you can see why such a story is an enormous and extremely ambitious undertaking for a novice, especially a younger one. (Disclaimer: I don't know how old you are, and if you're under 18 I'm not allowed to ask.)

Although it's hard for noncompetition stories to get recognition around here, that's really where I recommend that new writers cut their teeth. I've long thought that people who jump right in with an OC-filled competition story as their first story are setting themselves up to fail. It's the biggest reason why we get so many dead fics that never get past the first chapter or two.