It's August 21 which means it's Fan Fiction Writer's Appreciation Day! Fanfic is the lifeblood of any fandom and I hope all writers know how appreciated they are!
To celebrate, @renegadeguild ran an event whereby fan binders bound a work of fanfiction to celebrate. This year I chose Wishing on Runway Lights by inflight_gremlin.
This story is a beautiful love story in the mdzs fandom about a flight attendant, a stranded child, and the child's worried dad all snowed in and trapped during a winter storm. I chose it as my FFWAD project simply because I enjoyed the story, it made me smile and I thought it was well written and perfectly romantic.
More details about the binding itself below the cut.
The fic was nearly 45K words long and with appendices the total page count was 221.
Text font: Sabon Next LT
Chapter headings/graphics: Canva
Design: Inflight_gremlin is an incredible artist in addition to being a fanfic writer so I took one of her drawings, created a silhouette in Canva, and then imported it into Cricut Design Space. The images and text were cut from silver HTV vinyl applied to ice blue bookcloth. The snowflakes were cut from iridescent htv using a punch and then applied.
Endpapers were purchased from Michael's and endbands were from my stash.
The typset was done in Word and took me way longer than it should have. I had some issues with the clarity of images in my test prints and had to start over and redo it. I am very happy with the result, however!
