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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

Date: 2022-01-15 02:14 pm (UTC)
spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)
From: [personal profile] 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.

Date: 2022-01-15 04:18 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] senmut
Phenomenal!

Date: 2022-01-15 04:33 pm (UTC)
muccamukk: Groot surrounded by his own branches and glowing pollen. (GotG: Green Man)
From: [personal profile] 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!)

Date: 2022-01-15 04:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vriddy
That is such a cool achievement!! Congratulations, and congratulations on everything you learnt as well! Glad you plan to stick around fandom, too :)

Date: 2022-01-15 05:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kingstoken
Congratulations on getting having your book published!

Date: 2022-01-15 11:04 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] tsuki_no_bara
oh, how cool! congrats!

Date: 2022-01-15 11:45 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dreamersdare
That's amazing, and you do right to be proud of it!

Date: 2022-01-16 04:08 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] svgurl
Congratulations on publishing the two books! That's really exciting! :D

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