I wrote and printed a full fiction book for my girlfriend as a birthday gift
Okay so I need to talk about this somewhere because idk who to share this with lol. My friends are unbothered by it...
Months ago I got this idea that I'd write my girlfriend a book for her birthday. Like a real one. Fiction fantasy setting, characters based on us but disguised. A whole made-up world and stuff. Basically the whole thing.
I am not a writer, I'm a uni student drowning in projects and I had no business doing this lmao
But I started. And then I couldn't stop. Some nights I'd write a chapter and feel amazing. Other nights I'd read what I wrote the day before and want to delete the entire thing. I rewrote chapter 1 so many times uhhhh. there were stretches where I didn't touch it for a week because I was too in my head about it...
Then somehow I finished it. Then I formatted it. Then I sent it to get printed. Then I went to collect actual physical copies of a book I wrote just today and held them in my hands like ??? did I really do this?? I never would've imagined i'd do this for someone.
ngl tho her reaction so far has been more chill than I imagined in my head (maybe i was imaging all sorts of things). But honestly that's kind of beside the point now. I did the thing. The thing exists. It's bound and printed and realllll.
Anyway that's it just needed to put this somewhere. imma get me an icecream now hehe