Success doesn't happen overnight. It takes time, patience, hard work, dedication, and strange beginnings.
This is mine.
In 2013, I came across a heartfelt survival series called Warrior Cats. The discovery of this world pushed my love of writing into full gear, enough to bring me where I am today. But it would be a disservice on my behalf (and a disservice to you) to hide what I've created throughout the years just to showcase the better half of myself. Many authors do try to boost their prowess with their 'first stories', when they aren't. Nobody snaps their fingers and becomes good just like that. It's a line of progression (and oftentimes failures) that makes us who we are. So why hide them?
And, so, the building blocks that helped me reach this point were fanfictions. And in 2014, a year after discovering Warrior Cats, I made my first one.
I, unfortunately, no longer have it on me. But, because fanfiction is super helpful in testing writing skills with an existing world, I would like to share some of my past with you.
A Fanfiction of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, RAIS takes the viewpoint of the secondary antagonist [an indoraptor] who finds himself alive after the events of the movie. Tossed into a chaotic world of humans and monsters, he struggles to find a new purpose with the life he never had, while fleeing from a merciless secret reigning from his past.
This story erupted on Wattpad, leading to its 6x Features, 25x award wins, a shortlisting in the Wattys 2021, a shoutout by a member at Universal Studios, and being responsible for every other fanfiction that follows this same script [Whoops]. It has been read 60,000 times as of 2023.
Created by popular demand, Hybrids is the 'semi-sequel' to Ripper: An Indoraptor Story. Written in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it follows a female indoraptor working alongside Marine Corps Corporal Tommy Peters. But, after an freak accident forces the stubborn albino indoraptor back home, Seven uncovers a conspiracy about her birthright within a corrupted INGEN, and a plot that threatens to exterminate everything she thought she knew - including herself. But she's not alone in the fight.
At least, not anymore.
This book has been rough to write, but it is reaching it's completion soon!
After decades upon decades of kinship and ancestry, an era of war has slipped into peace. But nothing is promised. Years after the last warriorcats of the old age are lost, a group of randomly chosen warrior cats are forced to face the past and protect their clans after StarClan falls to a dark entity, only known as the Mists of Time.
This was my first officially completed Fanfiction written on Wattpad. Truth be told, the story isn't great, nor is the grammar all there. But I love to look back on it, like a memory from the past.