When I suggested adding a link in your signature it was less about encouraging you to post for exposure, and more observing that if you're going to participate in general threads anyway, you could garner attention for your blog in the process.
I definitely did not intend to sound patronizing, though I can see how I might have come across as such.
I think it's unfair to suggest (intentionally or unintentionally) that those who write fan fiction are not using the game and its events as inspiration, because they definitively are.
The literal definition of inspiration is "the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative". Being inspired does not require you to follow a set path with exacting detail, only to be moved by something, and often to use that emotion to create something. Inspiration can create a work that appears entirely unrelated to the source of inspiration, or it can create a work that sits right inside the original source of inspiration like the two are one, and a whole spectrum of possibilities in between, and none of them is any more or less valid than the others.
Regardless, though, your story qualifies more as a character journal than a work of fan fiction because it is a detailed account of events that happen in the game, exactly as they happen, with little to no deviation.
I understand this is an intentional choice, as you're letting the actual events of the game as you play it dictate the character's experiences, adventure, and general outlook on life and himself. Many players, writers, and role players do exactly that, as well. Using in-game events to drive your story is a fairly common practice. However, the way in which you have chosen to incorporate those events is more like a character journal than, as you say, normal fan fiction.
What makes Nondrick's Nonadventure more like fan fiction than a strict character journal actually is the breaking of the fourth wall. Yes, it's a silly thing he wrote and played for silly reasons, but breaking the fourth wall for the purpose of commentary adds something to the literal events of the game that is not already present in the game's narrative or mechanics.
You do not encounter a self-aware NPC that knows it is an NPC, living the life of an NPC, and commenting on its own life, or the existence of a player, or the various other things other NPC's do.
Beyond that, the reasoning for the ruling has nothing to do with whether or not another story on another site was posted as a blog, or in a fan fiction section. It has to do with how much a story is written in journal format, and how closely it follows in-game events and encounters, or, conversely, how much the new story's events deviate from the in-game events and encounters.
What I mean by this is not how much new material someone invents -- a cast of new characters and quests, locations, factions, histories, etc., until all you have is an original character and original story simply taking place in Skyrim more or less around the time of the Alduin events. When I say "deviation" or "not following the events closely", I mean the writer contributes enough of their own material that the focus is pulled off of the literal events of the game and put more heavily on the character's own experiences.
The difference looks like this:
A literal event: The Dragonborn absorbs the soul of a dragon in the Reach while it rains.
A character journal of the event: I killed another dragon. In the battle I was knocked down the bank toward the river, but I climbed back up to approach the dragon and absorb its soul. Its soul swirled around me as I drew near, and I looked up at the sky as the rain fell down on me. Even though I felt stronger for having absorbed the soul, I wished I didn't have to kill them. I wished men and dragon could learn to live with each other in peace. I know wishing doesn't change it, though. And I vow not to let this sacrifice go to waste.
A fan fiction account: (to avoid filling this response with a 300+ vignette, I'm linking it, instead)
Dragon Soul.
In the game, I battled a dragon in the Reach while it was misty rainy. When the dragon finally died, I had been knocked back toward the river and had to jump up to the level where the dragon was when it died. As the dragon soul entered the character, I made her look up at the sky. However, one entry is written in the format closer to that of a character journal, with limited elaboration or external detail, but colored with character opinion and some of their inner thoughts and opinions. The other entry is written in a way that tells you about the world, the events that happened, the character's state of mind and opinions, and the things currently happening in a way that doesn't require literally telling someone "this happened, and this is what it made me feel".
I want to emphasize that neither method is better or worse than the other, and you have a very specific goal in mind with your work that I fully encourage. It's a very creative approach I haven't seen anyone on the forums attempt with their stories, and you're doing it well. But as it stands right now, you're doing a character journal very well, and that's why it goes in the blogs.
As for helping to expand it for the fan fiction section, I don't at all mean taking away the images, or the effort you've put into it. It's more a matter of elaborating on the events you already have, and uniting them into a more linear narrative with a clear objective, and smooth transitions between events.
For instance: In Day 1 of Al'feek's story, he goes from being in the canal to having met Shadr, to standing before Brynjulf's stall in the market, to being in the Bee and Barb with about a sentence used for transition to each.
I think we can at least agree it does not read like something you would find in a novel. And, at its heart, whether you think someone has the quality in their writing to be published or not, fan fiction is in more of a novel-friendly format, with paragraphs involving description, and observation, and character opinion, and action all taking turns with each other to paint a larger picture that attempts to make sense whether you're looking at it in pieces, or as a whole.
And not every story has to. I like what you're doing, and I like it for what it is. And I hope you at least understand the reasoning behind the ruling, but barring that, I appreciate you posting to the blogs anyway.
And, even more than that, I sincerely hope that this being one of your first conversations on the forums doesn't put you off, or make you abandon the rest of the community. It really is an amazing community of amazing people if you give them a chance to interact with you. I would hate to rob you of the opportunity to meet them by giving you a negative experience from the start.