Memos to me

 Self, the reason you are able to write fanfic and finish it (to the extent that you are able to write fanfic) is not because you associate it with a school-like assignment.  It's probably because you:

• are now an adult and can do things you couldn't do as a kid
• are writing in settings where you and the audience already know the characters and story
• can write 100-1000 words of dialogue/character study/nothing resembling a plot and get away with it (which probably means the Toph-Azula thing is out of your zone of proximal development for now, and that's ok).

In other words, you are doing this for fun! HAVE FUCKING FUN!

(Other things I've learned: If you spend the week going to a kids' movie every day, you end up with a kids' illness. It was totally worth it, though XD).