I try to follow my instincts as often as I can and
today something told me that I needed to answer the question of how Order of the
Seers got its debut as fan fiction. For the people who might read this story, have
read it or are considering doing so, I want to be as honest and open as I
can. Most of you will not care about
this, but some do. This answer is for anyone
who wants to know.
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| My fanfic name is LittleWing2, from the Jimi Hendrix song, which I love. |
As I have said in various videos
and interviews,
when the idea for Order of the Seers came to me, I had never written a story
based on my own ideas. I wasn’t sure if
I even had the ability to write the story that was in my head. I just knew that I would try. My only experience writing anything longer
than a few pages was a Twilight fan-fiction short-story that I wrote called Spirit to Flesh
that was based on a Hallmark Movie called The Love Letter and The Twilight Saga
Series. I’ve been reading fan-fiction
since The X-files days and I am a true admirer of the enormous talent that
resides there.
About 2 hours after I had my first images of Marcus Akida
and the general themes for Order of the Seers, I told my husband about it. His reaction, after “sounds cool,”
was to ask me how I planned to “get it out there”. Publishing was the farthest thing from my
mind. I JUST got the idea a couple hours
earlier and while I was committed to trying to write the story, I didn’t know
if I could or if it would be any good once I finished.
I immediately thought of posting it as a twilight
fan fiction piece for three reasons.
First, I had been reading Twilight fan fiction for almost 2 years and it
was the only reader/writer community with which I was engaged. Second, the Twilight fan fiction community is
the community that inspired me to write my first poem in 5 years, not because
of the Twilight Series itself (which is awesome) but because of the creativity
of the writers in the fandom. I wanted
to share this new idea with the community that had inspired me to start writing
stories in the first place. If it was
going to be any good, I wanted to share it with that community first. Third, I wanted to get honest feedback.
These are all people who don’t know me and have no reason to say they
like or understand my story if they don’t.
I thought it would be an excellent place to find out if the story made
sense to anyone else but me.
A couple weeks later, when I first told my friends Jessica
and Shawna about Order of the Seers, they asked if the story was going to be a Twilight
fan fiction piece. I told them it had
nothing to do with Twilight, but I was going to post it as a fan fiction piece
anyway to get some exposure and feedback.
I spent the next 10 months developing, outlining and writing the
story. I completed the first draft of
Order of the Seers in February 2011 and posted the first chapter of the fan
fiction version shortly after. It
was a wonderful and extremely helpful experience in refining the story into what would ultimately become the published novel. It also gave me the courage to try
and find a wider audience for this story.
As always, if you’re out there, thanks for reading!
~Cerece
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