#sorcha talks

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I have an announcement I’ve been meaning to make for a while, it’s been weighing on my heart for a few months and I feel like it’s time to let y’all know.

I started this fanfiction journey (after a decade of not writing) because I had a fire lit under me by some amazing writers on this app. I have always wanted to be a writer, and had so many stories to tell but worried that as I got older that opportunity was lost to me. After agonizing over it for weeks, I finally took the leap and wrote “dream come true” with our beloved Bob and I was truly shocked at the amount of interest it got. I couldn’t believe it, people liked my writing and wanted more? It’s something I had always hoped for. Through this journey I have learned so much about myself, made amazing friendships and truly grown in my writing. I have a path that I can actually see now, and I can’t wait to share with you all how that goes as I start this year writing my novel with hopes to publish by 2026.

My New Year’s resolution last year was to hone my craft and fully embrace my creativity by writing on tumblr for a year, and as of January I will have achieved that goal. With that said, my announcement won’t come as much of a surprise to people here that I talk to regularly but I know it will make a lot of you sad or upset.

January will be my last month writing on tumblr, I will be keeping all my fics available and checking in with everyone, but I will no longer be a fic writer. I’m going to tie up my series’s, and finish some wips I never got to and then I will be putting all of my effort into my novel.

I want to thank all of you who have been loyal readers and stuck around with me, I love you all more than words and I can’t wait to share with you what the future holds.

A massive amount of thanks to @roosterforme and @attapullman for giving me the push I needed to start this journey, and to my precious mama May, @pinguhub and @arcane-vagabond for listening to my late night rambles and proofreading for me over the last few months. All of you have become family to me and I will forever be grateful this journey brought us together.

Thank you all for loving me and loving my work, it means everything.

Love,

Sarah

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For anyone who still cares- update!

I had my hysterectomy yesterday and unfortunately to all my haters I survived 😂😂

Thanks for everyone that has reached out, recovery has been ass but I’m making it through.

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Unfortunately the v-day fic is getting postponed until tomorrow guys, my hubby planned a whole day for us and has the day off and I can’t pass up the opportunity to spend the whole day with him. Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Spooky paint day with my sister! It’s not great but we had a blast!

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Controversial opinion apparently-

If someone really loves a work of fanfiction that they’ve written and they decide that they want to write it into a novel, where is the problem? Why is it that people want to tear down other people who decide they want to take a concept that they created and evolved it into something else? The only person that has any kind of claim on who they’ve made their character characters to be are themselves, and trying to put people down and make them think that their work is not good enough to be turned into fiction isn’t accomplishing anything and it just makes you look like garbage for trying to police how someone chooses to write. Yes some concepts are hard to change from fanfiction/fandom to an original work, but if the author wants to do that and thinks that they can succeed we should absolutely be lifting those people up and cheer them on in their creative endeavors. Telling somebody that fanfiction isn’t writing or that they aren’t good enough to publish a novel is shitty behavior and some of y’all need to look in the mirror and realize that your insecurities are your own and don’t need to be projected onto other people. If you love your fic and want to make them original characters, do it! The world is your oyster baby. The worst thing that could happen is that you wouldn’t write it because people tried to make you feel bad and you missed the opportunity to do something fulfilling. There are so many works that started out on Tumblr and wattpad that have become published and now even have movies and tv shows. You have to start somewhere, why not now?

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Am I actually writing a fic rn? Holy shit what is happening?

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My first baby turns 17 in the morning and goodness I am in my feels. I can’t believe he’s almost an adult. 😭😭

We were just babies!

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Woke up this morning to a super sick kiddo, and it just got worse as the day went on. He had 105 fever this evening and we had to rush him to the er, turns out he has step AND the flu. Keep us in your thoughts as we try to get him better and that hopefully no one else gets sick.