<p>...if I gain a large following?</p>
<p>Writing takes up a significant portion of my time that I could be dedicating to soup kitchens or something (jokes), so I was wondering if it could count as an EC. I'm not interested in being the typical "NHS, Math Club, and Poor Kids. Oh my!" applicant, but if nothing I do right now counts as an EC I'm screwed.</p>
<p>Also, some of the things I write are rather controversial. If it can be considered an EC, would it be a bad idea to include it if there are stories on there that I wouldn't show my mother?</p>
<p>I would say it’s a bad call. Fictionpress has a lot of smut on it – not sure I’d want to lead an adcom there to form an impression of me. I don’t know if Wattpad is better, but if I were you I would focus on trying to get works published. That would be far more impressive, IMO.</p>
<p>@OP: random question, but is your user name a band?</p>
<p>I’m definitely going to try on get some of my stuff published, but if that doesn’t happen I want something to show for my writing since (like I mentioned before) it takes up a significant portion of my time.</p>
<p>Maybe I could put a link to my page so they don’t have to see that? My stories are controversial, but nothing smutty. I’ll figure out a way to hide the things that are more iffy.</p>
<p>And EnemyOfTheSun - Yes!</p>
<p>No links? I could’ve sworn that I’d read about people putting links to things in their applications. Ah well.</p>
<p>Erm…Nevermind then? Links are okay?</p>
<p>Cool! 
Nice to see a fellow Insomnium fan on CC.</p>
<p>On the question, in MY opinion, being ‘accomplished’ on Fictionpress could help set you apart (you would stand out from the rest of the writers for me were I an adcom). The difficulty is, the adcom would have little time to read your application and you would have to do a ton of things to prove your authentication. Maybe you could write an essay about it if that is all you devote your time doing. </p>
<p>Controversial? I say interesting.</p>
<p>By the way, can you pm me a link to your writing? I’d love to read some.</p>
<p>Definitely tell them about it.</p>
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<p>^Ditto Enemy. Can I read some of your writing too?</p>