Just like the title says! Today marks exactly one year since I published my first novel, Serena. It's a major milestone for me and I just wanted to share this milestone with you!
I like to write, but this is my first time writing something formal and really long, I really didn't expect to be able to write consistently for a whole year straight, I expected some obstacles, some writer's block, loss of muse or something, but to my luck and pleasure, everything flowed almost perfectly!
There were some minor detours and issues while I was trying to figure out what worked and what didn't, but overall, I think I did well!
So I'm happy about it!
And I wanted to thank you all! Thank you for reading and your continued support to all!
Thank you for all the Likes, Kudos, Collections, Power Stones, views, hits, everything, especially the comments, because, despite not being someone who answers them very often, I do try to read them all and I really enjoy reading them, so thank you for everything! It's a shame that AO3 doesn't have the option to like comments there, they're the ones that seem the most abandoned, but I read them all!
I also wanted to give a special thanks to my editor Scott Fellman who does a wonderful job of making my novels more readable and listening to me ramble on about different things, I am truly grateful to him, a thousand thanks wouldn't be enough, but still, thank you!
Well, that would be all the thanks. I'm really happy to have reached a full year of writing, and I plan to continue writing even more. Now... you can finish reading this thanks here, or continue reading my ramblings for almost 2,000 more words—your choice!
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First let's go with some statistics! I like statistics! I'm really proud of them and thank you for making them happen!
As you know, I write two novels (Serena and Izumi.) ( just Serena if they are only on AO3, sorry! ), so first we have the Webnovel stats for both novels, both versions are placed together, Spanish and English, and also the individual data in the following format -> total (English + Spanish):
Serena Prince:
4.56k Collections. (4.39k + 173)
1.88m Views. (1.69m + 190k)
6.78k Power Stones. (6.59k + 197)
1029 Comments. (965 + 64)
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Izumi Xover :
6.35k Collections. (5.73k + 625)
1.91m Views. (1.61m + 301k)
5.58k Power Stones. (4.71k + 871)
871 Commentaries. (699 + 172)
Now we continue with those of AO3:
Kudos:669 (643 + 26)
Comment Threads:389 (388 + 1)
Bookmarks: 357 (350 + 7)
Subscriptions: 336 (322 + 14)
Hits: 52,662 (50,530 + 2,132)
I like these numbers! These stats are only for Serena Prince (both translations) since I never uploaded Izumi Xover to AO3, for some reason the AO3 audience never seemed right for me? Maybe I'll upload it anyway sometime soon if I find some time to upload 130+ chapters in one go.
I also have some Patreon info, though it was hard to come by! (very unintuitive where the data was located.)
2892 Likes.
172 Commentaries.
Both data are a sum of all uploaded chapters.
All of that data is the result of 301 total chapters, 158 from Serena and 143 from Izumi, counting the chapters currently posted on Patreon. In total, I wrote a whopping 830k words in a year, 440k from Serena alone and 390k from Izumi.
Which is actually a huge achievement for me, I didn't even realize I had written that much or even that I could! That's about 2200 words per day!
Once again, thank you for all your support!
Now, if you've made it this far, I guess I can share some random facts or trivia about the novels!
I'm something of a hoarder, at least when it comes to my novel writing documents. I have most of them saved and archived, even several versions of the same chapter with different changes or ideas until I finally decide on the final versions.
Serena was first published on AO3 and Webnovel on September 16, 2024 (September 13 on Patreon, but that's just for logistics). The oldest document I have is from July 18, but I have Google Keep notes with ideas dating back to May.
Interestingly, I was originally planning on using Chat Multiversal rather than Waifu Catalog, even writing around 10k words using Chat Multiversal in May before deciding to go with WC and rewriting most of it.
In case you want to know, I had even already chosen the chat characters and their initial power rolls.
Serena Snape (SI) [ ObsessedPrince ]
Railgun
Baiser Magic
Music - divine level
UBW
unarmed combat - intermediate level
Guandao - expert level
Cooking - intermediate level
Sona Sitri [ RealMagicalGirl ]
Esdeath
programming - advanced level
horn cannon / bnha
Taguel / Fire Emblem
trident - level advanced
Holly Potter [ ScarHead ][Administrator] (Fem Harry Potter)
Ancient Magic
Artoria
July / darker than black
Assassin - Intermediate Level
Baking - intermediate level
Engineering - advanced level
Basketball - intermediate level
Penny Polendina [ NotRealGirl ]
gomu gomu no mi
Firearms Mastery - Advanced Level
stalking - level advanced
heal (res, gires, rever, anti) / phantasy star
Satou Kazuma [ KazuTrash ]
Simp - divine level
samurai - advanced level
maid - advanced level
violin - intermediate level
Madoka Soul Gem
Mystletainn - kore wa zombie
Yukinoshita Yukino [ IceColdPrincess ]
gourmet cells
Kyuubi jinchuriki
Cooking - advanced level
Naginata - advanced level
Dance - intermediate level
immune / munies / maze runner
Yes... those were the rolls, and I swear they were random. Even though it seems like I really wanted to make Kazuma a magical girl, it was purely random. I ended up changing everything to Waifu Catalog because it caught my attention more, and I ended up writing the final version you read.
On the other hand, we have Izumi.
Even though Izumi was first published on October 18th, 2024, I have formal written documents, manuscripts, and ideas dated back to July 10th, 2024, and even the 'final' version I ended up uploading was actually finished on September 23rd, I just didn't upload it at the time out of fear and anxiety about my other novel, Serena.
But those dates are from the final version that I ended up uploading, like Serena, there is an alternative version written a few months before. Instead of Izumi and the Zoro and Yoriichi templates as the starter pack, it was a Korra Genderswap (the appearance was Desna, Korra 's cousin ), obviously the Avatar's powers and there were even two versions, one where she had Naga as a pet, and another with Appa.
Everything else was pretty much the same, I had written about 7 chapters with that version.
And these two aren't even the only novels I wrote. I have several dozen notes in my Google Keep with ideas for novels and fics to come. These two were the only ones that were more complete and the ones that struck my muse enough to continue and want to upload them.
But that doesn't mean I didn't write any of those ideas! Several of them have random chapters or rather long introductions. And in case you're curious, these were some of the ideas for my fics :
*a self-insert / Waifu Catalog in the body of Wednesday Addams and the template of Sung Jin- Woo, welcoming the macabre and the Addams Family with open arms, obviously Nero is one of its main Shadows. There are like 4 full chapters of this written and several more ideas.
Like, if anyone listened to the Addams Family musical, specifically the song When You're an Addams, it mentions that one day a year, they invoke the ancestors of the Addams family to celebrate what it means to be an Addams, and with Wednesday being a necromancer... yeah, you know where that's going.
The Addams Family across the multiverse.
And it's not even out of my mind constantly! With the second season of Wednesday, I had more ideas! Agnes was pretty easy to add to the equation.
*then there was another Waifu Catalog, where a friend of SI (male) was making fun of him for only creating Edgy Builds (mentioned above), and he decides to prove his friend completely wrong out of spite by creating a completely opposite build, and obviously ends up reincarnated using that build.
The build consists of the body of Galinda Arduenna Upland, of the Upper Uplands (I love this name), aka, Glinda the Good, especially from the musical Wicked, who is basically a dumb blonde at the beginning with the energy of a hyperactive chihuahua (I love her, I really love Galinda.).
She has a template that gives her mastery over bubbles, over all bubbles in existence. She can't use magic normally or any other supernatural powers, but she can create, use, and master all possible magic or phenomena, but only through, or in the form of, bubbles. Because obviously she wouldn't be Galinda without her bubbles.
Add Diarmuid 's Love Spot and Veela ancestry, so that she will completely and inevitably attract attention wherever she goes.
The SI is quite bitter and introverted and prefers dark colors, but due to the influence of Galinda's personality, she dresses in a lot of pink and automatically acts like her whenever there is an audience (even if it is just one person) for her eternal suffering.
Harry Potter starting world (obviously.) and appears as the daughter of Severus Snape, because I want Galinda to call him Popsicle in the Great Hall while spinning around him excitedly and singing.
(also several chapters written, and it makes me want to write more, did I already say how much I love Galinda? Because I do.)
*another Waifu Catalog possessing a genderswap Luffy 's body using the Midoriya Izuku template. She's supposed to awaken pre-canon, but due to some mistake, she awakens addressing Egghead after all canon had already happened without her being able to interfere. Much of Luffy 's personality and feelings stick with her, so she ends up taking all the Straw Hats to other worlds. (there are about three chapters and several ideas of this.)
*another Waifu Catalog with fem Luffy as a body too, but this time she was in the world of DxD added as an Extra person, part of a clan of Pilar demons that was almost extinct. She has some of Luffy 's memories and feelings, so she starts doing missions to get credits and summon the rest of her crew (interestingly, I have about 24k words of this, I really liked the plot and it practically wrote itself.).
*a few things written about Bowsette x Peach, because I love that ship and there aren't enough.
* a Waifu Catalog in Worm, with Taylor and Amy as the main couple. (I've written 10k words of this.)
*one from Worm, one Self-Insert in Glaistig Uaine and the ghosts of her powers are waifus from other worlds.
*Another Worm story about GLaDOS having an isekai after her death in Taylor Hebert's body. (Don't ask how I came up with this, but there's also a whole chapter written about this idea.)
*Many more from Worm, and many more lesbian fics.
*Some songfics, if I don't make it clear that I like music, then I'll fail at some point, I have several lists of songs that I would like to use at some point.
*There are also several soulmates or omegaverses, because yes, I like those genres. Most of them are fem!Harry Potter, like omega or alpha and magically forming an opposing harem, because that's their luck in every universe. (I have several chapters written!)
*There are also several chapters about a multi-xover in a fusion of many romance/anime/manga/hentai and slice of life series, there are like 30 series involved, a Self-insert and a massive harem, there are two versions of these, which goes in both extremes.
Both are SI, but one is in Boa Hancock's body, so it's a yuri harem. And the other end has the orc tag. Yeah... you can ignore that, I wasn't completely in my right mind when I wrote that since it's pure smut.
And I even had the entire plot and the initial prologue written. Again, don't ask.
*and the last idea I actually wrote recently, was when I discovered Chaos Gacha, in case you don't know it, here it is, https://www.chaosgacha.com/gacha . also, I always wanted to write a fic with a multi-bodied MC style Cerberus from Helltaker, so I did, only I changed it for characters from Hoyoverse. Stelle from Honkai Star Rail, Belle from ZZZ and Furina from Genshin Impact.
Clearly the main idea was Lumine from GI to have the three protagonists of Hoyoverse as bodies, and I really like Stelle and Belle, and I have nothing against Lumine, but I really love, really love Furina (a difficult decision if you make me choose between Galinda and Furina! I love them both so much!), so I feel sorry for Lumine, but I had to remove her. (There are a couple of chapters of this.)
And well, I can continue writing about many more ideas, ideas that simply come to mind and I feel compelled to write a few words to satisfy my desire, otherwise, they stay around in my head for a long time!
I guess I'd better end it here, or I'll just keep writing random stuff. Once again, thanks for all the support so far!
Camellya_Addams.