Positive Post <3
For starters, I have to once again thank everyone, not only for the lovely replies on my last personal post, but also all the incredible comments I've been receiving over at the love meme. You all are wonderful, wonderful people who have cheered me up so very much and made me feel so special. Thank you!
Other positive things that have been going on include my decision to sign up for 25 days of Harry and Draco. I did the early bird sign-ups and I'm already plotting away to come up with a continuous story with 25 parts. I have been wanting to create an other chaptered Drarry story/series, since my Gratitude Series, and this seems like the perfect way to do just that!
I'm also super excited about the reception my latest drabble story has gotten. I was so inspired by Fantastic Beasts, especially after having a few conversations with some friends on here about Graves and Credence's relationship. I knew I needed to write something with these two. Part of the need for my rush in writing about them was because over at AO3, as of yesterday morning, there was only two pages worth of stories under Fantastic Beasts… I couldn't help the itch under my skin that felt determined to get my story in while all the fictions are so very fresh and new.
Mind you it's only 300 words and unbetad and I had to edit it several times after posting when I kept noticing mistakes but I still feel pretty good about it. On top of that, I had this inkling that it probably would get decent views because everyone seeing the movie this weekend and then potentially going online to find fanfiction for their favorite pairings.
Anyway I'm kind of rambling but I'm just so pleased with the amount of hits and traffic the story has gotten already in just a couple of days and the comments and bookmarks and kudos. It seems such a minor and silly thing but it's got me super excited.
Of course I'm always over the moon with all my lovely friends, especially as they are such talented writers themselves, reading my stories but there is something about a handful of random strangers bookmarking and liking your story that is exciting in its own way. I really should be working on other things today but I can't help but want to write more because the feedback past day has been a really exciting rush. Don't you love when you post something with perfect timing? Sigh.
ETA: I just noticed that, according to AO3, I have officially posted 100 stories. How exciting! On top of that, in two days it will be exactly a year since I joined AO3 and basically rejoined HP fandom. Woohoo, one year anniversary~
Lastly, it looks like hp_nextgenfest is coming to a close. I'm sad to see all the wonderful stories stop posting but I'm also super proud of myself because I manage to stay ahead of this fest and read every single slash entry and comment on every art piece. I think it probably helped that, unlike other fest,s people generally keep their stories under 10k and that certainly made reading a bit easier/quicker. I have seen a lot of mentions that there's been less traffic than usual, admittedly my own story got maybe a couple of comments less than I thought it would (it was one of the stories I felt really proud of what I wrote it and was super into but after the fact I can see how people might not like everything about it) but because I've been so on top of the fest and commenting on everything… I guess I assumed others were as well? I don't know what I thought, ha ha, but I'm sad to hear it's gotten less love and attention this year. Hopefully there will be more views/comments, not for my story, but for all the other wonderful stories after the fest has concluded and people have more time.
I guess my final positive mention for today is that yesterday before work I went to whole foods and they had sales everywhere and so I totally bought a bag of giant size vegan marshmallows and ready made vegan cookie dough… It's going to be a good weekend. (Forrest and I are always off Mondays and Tuesdays together so Sundays are basically the start of our weekend)
Hope things are going well with everyone else <3
Other positive things that have been going on include my decision to sign up for 25 days of Harry and Draco. I did the early bird sign-ups and I'm already plotting away to come up with a continuous story with 25 parts. I have been wanting to create an other chaptered Drarry story/series, since my Gratitude Series, and this seems like the perfect way to do just that!
I'm also super excited about the reception my latest drabble story has gotten. I was so inspired by Fantastic Beasts, especially after having a few conversations with some friends on here about Graves and Credence's relationship. I knew I needed to write something with these two. Part of the need for my rush in writing about them was because over at AO3, as of yesterday morning, there was only two pages worth of stories under Fantastic Beasts… I couldn't help the itch under my skin that felt determined to get my story in while all the fictions are so very fresh and new.
Mind you it's only 300 words and unbetad and I had to edit it several times after posting when I kept noticing mistakes but I still feel pretty good about it. On top of that, I had this inkling that it probably would get decent views because everyone seeing the movie this weekend and then potentially going online to find fanfiction for their favorite pairings.
Anyway I'm kind of rambling but I'm just so pleased with the amount of hits and traffic the story has gotten already in just a couple of days and the comments and bookmarks and kudos. It seems such a minor and silly thing but it's got me super excited.
Of course I'm always over the moon with all my lovely friends, especially as they are such talented writers themselves, reading my stories but there is something about a handful of random strangers bookmarking and liking your story that is exciting in its own way. I really should be working on other things today but I can't help but want to write more because the feedback past day has been a really exciting rush. Don't you love when you post something with perfect timing? Sigh.
ETA: I just noticed that, according to AO3, I have officially posted 100 stories. How exciting! On top of that, in two days it will be exactly a year since I joined AO3 and basically rejoined HP fandom. Woohoo, one year anniversary~
Lastly, it looks like hp_nextgenfest is coming to a close. I'm sad to see all the wonderful stories stop posting but I'm also super proud of myself because I manage to stay ahead of this fest and read every single slash entry and comment on every art piece. I think it probably helped that, unlike other fest,s people generally keep their stories under 10k and that certainly made reading a bit easier/quicker. I have seen a lot of mentions that there's been less traffic than usual, admittedly my own story got maybe a couple of comments less than I thought it would (it was one of the stories I felt really proud of what I wrote it and was super into but after the fact I can see how people might not like everything about it) but because I've been so on top of the fest and commenting on everything… I guess I assumed others were as well? I don't know what I thought, ha ha, but I'm sad to hear it's gotten less love and attention this year. Hopefully there will be more views/comments, not for my story, but for all the other wonderful stories after the fest has concluded and people have more time.
I guess my final positive mention for today is that yesterday before work I went to whole foods and they had sales everywhere and so I totally bought a bag of giant size vegan marshmallows and ready made vegan cookie dough… It's going to be a good weekend. (Forrest and I are always off Mondays and Tuesdays together so Sundays are basically the start of our weekend)
Hope things are going well with everyone else <3