When I was 9yo child, I once have self-fullfilment dream to change the ending of certain tragic ending animation film to make sure both MC and her lover survive,
And then I even made both couple join bus School trip with the entire class to visit a mountain camp with natural sulfuric hot springs. I watched the whole class hiked a mountain, pitched a tent, and the class swam in a natural hot spring, and both MC and her lover had their own moments like having open shower together after swimming in the sulfuric pool.
Both has their clothes, of course. There's an open shower near the pool to clean your body and clothes from the sulfur of the pool, they get their own private naked shower after the sulfur removed in the open shower.
(And no, none of that shitty perverted swimming suit, Im still 9yo and didn't know the existence of such things. Each student, male/female, used full t-shirt & short pants since they're just too poor to afford swimming suit or even a bikini.)
I'm sad that when the trip is over, both MC and her lover didn't do more romantic progress and both just ride the bus home silently while I watch the bus leave, before I waked up and wonder "is that what I really want to see all along ?"
In conclusion, Me : a little traumatized kid traumatized child in 4th grade, just turned a tragic film into some kind of Bath-house episode specials by getting the whole class member into school trip, without I realizing it and with no prior knowledge of the entire culture of otaku, anime, ecchi, etc.
It was nearly a decade before I know the existence to the whole anime cultures, before I get traumatized again by watching BNP as my first hentai, before I watched proper hentai, before I knew proper Ecchi (watching Hentai before Ecchi is kinda unorthodox development, I know), and that is another couple of years before I knew the existence of Fanfic, and another years before I knew about manhwa, manhua, and getting into Novel updates and getting into this site. It's eleven years in total.
Turns out I already have experience at making fanfic within my delusion, far before I knew the existence of Fanfic itself.
But experience and talent meant nothing if the results is just too mediocre and can't break through current saturated market.