One of the goals I made for myself lo! these many years ago was to write a piece of fiction and let others read it. I *suck* at fiction, but like most wannabe writers often daydreamed my name on a book spine at Barnes & Noble.

Over the years, I tried to keep this promise to myself. I really did. I wrote thousands of pages. But none of my efforts ever passed the "cringe test" - where I would go back and read it later and not cringe with shame.

Then last year I caught an episode of a show called "Farscape" - which had already been off the air when I got into it. Happy TiVo, I spent many cold wintry nights plunged in the crazy sci-fi world of Peacekeepers and wormholes.

And when the shows stopped, I started writing. I had never written anything based on a TV show before - I was complete "fan fiction" newbie, so I reached out to one of the mentors on a website I found - her handle is 'Windfire' and wow, she was an amazing editor and cheerleader. What a difference it is to have someone looking at my work while I am in the process!

So. When I was done writing and she was done proofing, my alter-ego "EllaScaper" had written, well, about 40,000 words. It's called Scions. And? It didn't make me cringe.

I've been puttering with a sequel,( to be honest it has been slow going, my distractions have been uh, really distracting).

Then, when I got home from Paris, I had a bunch of emails saying that the story had been nominated in a bunch of categories for the Farscape Fans' Sparky Awards. I suspect that a certain nice person, who is too kind, nominated me. But I can't begin to say how grateful I am. Sometimes I really think that I tap away in a vacuum, and then really nice things happen - a bunch of folks comment, or someone mentions that my words have impact. And I, like, totally live for that. Dude. Totally.

So this is my public outing of the story, and my deepest thanks to whoever thought it was worthy. No, really. Thank you.

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