holy crap I’m writing fanfic

Have you ever been reading and wanted a story to just keep on keeping on? To live in it and breathe in it and have it never end? A book where every chapter is as familiar as your childhood home, but more. More interesting, funny, exciting, adventuresome, romantic, and surprising.

I know, intellectually, that stories have arcs and must get resolved. That instinctively we as readers look for things in books—a character to change and learn something, a problem, a solution, and all the parts in between. Sometimes, though, I want the book to get resolved, but then keep going. Forget all the rules about arcs and just let keep reading more and more and more.

I woke up this morning and HAD to write a continuation scene for a book I read a few weeks ago and haven’t been able to forget. I book I stayed up until 4:13 a.m. to read and have now listened to on audio several times. It makes me happy. I’m obsessed. I don’t even care that I’m that obsessed.

I don’t know that I’ve ever considered writing fanfic before. Probably. But I didn’t have anything specific to write. This time, though, it was almost dictation, and I know better than to not follow the dictation of my heart.

Sometimes I just want to write for the fun of writing. This isn’t something written for others. It’s not commercial.

But I don’t know the last time writing something has made me this giddy.

Here’s to finding a hobby that makes us happy—and then letting ourselves do it.