Between torts and AO3

I am in my second year of law at the University of Abuja and I find that fan fiction is an excellent way to remember that language can be used for something other than citation format and case analysis. I've been writing fic since secondary school, mostly in the early mornings before lectures, mostly on my phone. Currently: a 40,000-word WIP set in the *Death Note* universe that I am reasonably proud of and completely unable to discuss with anyone I actually know. I post on AO3 under a name that isn't this one. The comment section is the only feedback I get on my writing and it is occasionally extraordinary. Law school has done something unexpected to my plotting, which is that I now think a lot more carefully about motivation and consequence. Why would this person do this thing, given what they know, given what they stand to lose. It's made my fic better. I'm not sure it's done anything useful for my torts essays. I live in university housing near the Gwagwalada campus and I study with four other women and we have an agreement that no one asks what anyone else is reading or writing on their phone at 11pm.