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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 wrote! For most of 2021, I opened up blank documents and couldn't even think of anything to put down. After a while I gave up, typed brackets, and closed the documents. Some days I didn't even open the document. I love the intoabar challenge, so I signed up for it and managed to write a fic, and it turned out to be pretty good!

But after I posted it, I went back to the same pattern. I signed up for a couple of bingos, hoping the prompts might provide inspiration. Some of the prompts did, and I started writing a couple of fics. They still aren't finished, and I'm having the same issue of opening them up but being unable to think of anything to add. But I got parts written at least.

Then fandomtrees happened. A couple of people asked for fandoms I write and their prompts were fantastic. And I not only managed to write a couple of gift fics, but I was inspired to write another fic, which fills prompts on my bingo cards. Like the intoabar fic, I was inspired kind of suddenly and wrote these very quickly. And they turned out really well, and I'm pretty proud of them, especially the Hey Arnold! fics. Here are links!

Family: Hey Arnold! epistolary fic focused on Phoebe Heyerdahl and Helga Pataki (I'm especially proud of this one because epistolary fics are hard, and I wasn't sure if this would work)
A Welcome Visitor: Hey Arnold! fic focused on Olga and Helga Pataki
Childhood's End: Mulan fic focused on an original character from Mulan's village as per the prompt

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