writing

I've been writing since middle school when I wrote silly original fiction where my characters had powers based on different colors. I also wrote Supernatural fanfiction exclusively for myself. It was AIM fic where my OC was in a chat room with her friends talking about how Sam and Dean died. (I wrote it right after the season on finale.)

Supernatural fanfic was what I cut my teeth in. It was one of the first kinds of fanfiction that I read and it was certainly the first kind of fanfiction that I wrote. My favorite OC started her fictional life as a Winchester sibling and she still bears their last name as a kind of tribute to that history I have with the fandom.

Then came Twilight. I loved Twilight. I also hated how Stephenie Meyer portrayed vampires. As someone who read Dracula at he ripe old age of 9 - yes, my mother should have been supervising me more at the library but as the mother of someone who said "I want to read real books!" around six, she was doing her best - I knew what vampires could be and I was pissed that Twilight was doing such a disservice to them. I also somehow managed to come out of this early experience as neither Team Jacob nor Team Edward. I was Team James and I wrote a long ass fanfiction about that.

In fact, it pissed me off so much that I started writing my own fiction. I brought this up to a friend recently and they called me "a bizarro version of EL James" and they're not wrong. (If I wrote 50 Shades of Grey I would have researched BDSM more.)

These days I have a kinda complicated relationship with writing. I haven't written anything of any substance since the fall of 2018, but I have been brewing things up behind the scenes. My latest project involves a lot of world building that I should have dont in 2018, but I kinda just hand waved it like oh I don't need to know how magic works. And then I decided to write a wizard. I now need to know how magic works.