ailaaurie

How This All Happened

Added 2021-11-06 17:27:52 +0000 UTC

So, here's how this story came to be.

I've been a fan of isekai since the late 90's and recently have been seeing a lot of reborn as the villainess media lately. I do enjoy them to varying degrees, but found that I tend to lean more towards wholesome family and friend interactions, which tends to be sidelined by the major plots of revenge and romance.

And that's super understandable, but when I get stressed and tired, I just want to read something light and happy.

I figured, hey, I've been writing for decades and have some spare time, why don't I just write my own for fun.

So I did.

I wrote the first chapter 4 days before I submitted it to Royal Road, and then wrote two more chapters during the 48 hours it took for the story to be approved. I literally heard about Royal Road a month earlier, when I was looking for somewhere to post my original fiction.

I didn't expect the story to get the attention that it did. I really did just post on a whim, so I was kind of terrified. At any given time, I only have 3 chapters scheduled to post and another 2 or 3 that are sitting around, waiting to be reviewed.

I don't have an editor. It's just me sitting at my computer in the evening, typing away. Each chapter is between 5k and 6k words, which I only realized was too much AFTER I had settled into the scheduled posts. Honestly, do your research everyone. Don't be like me.

Since more people are reading, I can only hope that someone out there enjoys what I write and gives them a momentary escape from reality to relax.

My goal with my writing has always been two things:

First - make myself happy.

Second - maybe make others happy, too.

Thank you so much for your support.

Take care,

Aila