I want to share something. I am not sharing for attention, but because I'm happy and excited. I have a chapter! SEVEN YEARS AFTER THE LAST CHAPTER. NINE YEARS SINCE I FIRST POSTED. I'm still editing heavily, because I want this good. I'm picking apart for holes and everything else I can think of. I'm tightening and making sure my parallels haven't gotten mangled in the years in between, lmao
I just couldn't figure out where I wanted it to go after those 3 lines I had sitting there, mocking me for all those years, though. But the Batling (and I really need a new name for them, because they are absolutely not a little toddler anymore) has been writing and drawing and doing all sorts of fanart for Hunger Games and their other fandoms and somehow it... I won't say it rekindled a spark, because I never lost my desire to participate and create, but... It jumpstarted something again.
I was sitting at a book signing for one of their classmates (very proud of them for getting published) and talking to their old middle school English teacher, and we were all sitting there being geeky at each other about various interests and all "Have you read this?" And "Omg yes, have you read that?" back and forth at each other and fanfic came up.
I was encouraged to continue. By all of them. And I've been listening to Batling's projects and looking at the art and I finally asked recently if they'd mind listening to what I had going on. And they were so excited to hear and it just got me thinking and... Next thing I knew it, I had a chapter outline. And now i have a chapter, and the other 2 chapter outlines.
I'm editing and revising and cutting things out. The big thing I'm worried about is that I know the fandom has evolved a bit since *coughs nervously* 2017, when I first started the story. So yeah, I'm expecting to get some flak for "why are you writing them like this" or "why didn't you include that" or who knows what. But I'm going to share anyway, once I'm done. I'm going to be proud of finishing it after this long. Even if no one kudos, I'll know I did something to be proud of :) I'll know how much work and worry and everything I put into it.









