Snowflake Day 8

[marzipan77]

Challenge #8

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I published two books! Today in 2021, my first book, Child of the Scales, was available for pre-order.

Changing from fan fic writer to original fic was a long process. I had to learn to write without the feedback and love of the fandom, develop my own characters and world, and give myself a schedule with goals to meet.

Worth it? Oh, yes. To hold that book in my hands, to share my stories with so many others? Priceless.

And, you know what? I'm still going to be a fanfic writer for life. Why would I stop??

But I've also learned that nothing is done in a vacuum. I have such a great cloud of supporters from fandom that it resonates through my entire life, fanfic, original fic, everything. I'd be nowhere without my heart sisters, kudo-leavers, and commenters.

Child of the Scales

Comments

[spikedluv]

Congrats on having two books published! I like the summary of Child of the Scales so I've added it to my to-read list.

[marzipan77]

Wonderful!!! Thank you so much!

[senmut]

Phenomenal!

[marzipan77]

Thanks!

[muccamukk]

Wow! Getting published is amazing! And I'm glad you're staying in the transformative works community too! I'm always a little sad when people choose to leave (though only having so much time makes sense!)

[marzipan77]

There's no way I could leave fandom. This is where my heart is! Thank you!

[vriddy]

That is such a cool achievement!! Congratulations, and congratulations on everything you learnt as well! Glad you plan to stick around fandom, too :)

[marzipan77]

I could never leave fandom! Thank you!

[kingstoken]

Congratulations on getting having your book published!

[marzipan77]

Thank you so much!

[tsuki_no_bara]

oh, how cool! congrats!

[marzipan77]

Thank you! Working on book 3!

[dreamersdare]

That's amazing, and you do right to be proud of it!

[marzipan77]

Thanks!!! I'm pretty stoked! Wait, do people still use that phrase? Dating myself again!

[dreamersdare]

You use it. You're people. Therefore yes, yes they do!

(I am growing old disgracefully and refusing to move with the times. You can have my dated phrases when you claw them from my cold, dead fingers :D)

[svgurl]

Congratulations on publishing the two books! That's really exciting! :D

[marzipan77]

Thank you! Working on the rough draft of book 3!