Someone Made a Thing About a Thing That I Made and I am Rocked

Seriously... I barely have the words to articulate what this means to me. I haven't gone into a lot of detail about why writing Sixty-Six was such a painful experience for me, and why it's so tangled up with Maladaptive, but I'll just say that I never thought that it would find an audience who felt about it the way I did.

I started posting it on Inkitt to try and clear it out of my system and stop thinking about it as something I failed at because I never had the guts to share it. Writing Maladaptive gave me the guts, but I had zero expectations about it being seen or understood by even one reader.

But someone out there has found it, and they get it, and have even shared with me and the world, how it inspired them to make something, and I'm not just in shock, I'm in awe. Because that's the point, isn't it? To touch someone, even just one person, and inspire something in them.

I have a lot of thoughts and philosophies about art, creativity and inspiration and one day I'll share those ideas in a more detailed post. But for now, I just want to thank art_deco_moga for taking a chance on Sixty-Six and for feeling something about it, and for taking those feelings and creating something new and putting it out there. 

It's an act of courage for an artist to share what they made with the world, and my gratitude and appreciation are boundless. That might sound hyperbolic, but it's the truth.

Sixty-Six Fan Zine by art_deco_moga on Instagram - shared with their permission.

art_deco_moga - thank you for becoming part of the world of Sixty-Six, you're woven into it now. 

Also, for the record, zines in general are SO FREAKING COOL and I don't just love that they made a zine about my book, I love the art and their vision and interpretation of the story is so raw and evocative and colorful and their drawings make me swoon!

(Also for the record, the creator of this zine is a talented writer who is posting their own work on Inkitt. I am currently reading their book Moonstruck Dragonflies, which is beautifully written and told in an original style - for mature audiences only).

To really, really overstate it - this is probably the highest compliment I've ever been given as a writer slash artist slash creator. I'll be basking in this for a long time, and honestly, I think it has propelled me in a massive leap forward in my healing.