It’s cool to see another writer who’s also an artist on here :D And I admire your ability to draw things outside your interest, I’m trying to develop that discipline as well. I used to draw only “fun” things that were directly related to my fandom/area of interest, but I’ve since become interested in making fancomics. And in order to be really good at making them, you need to be able to draw lots of boring/difficult things, like buildings, cars, airplanes, etc.*
*Cars and airplanes are awesome, since a lot of my fandoms include them in fun contexts, but for whatever reason I feel immensely bored even thinking about drawing a house in perspective. Though I could probably make it fun with study/practice
I lately got into a fandom for an older indie game, and I never expected it would have any fanworks, and if it did, I expected them to have been written years ago. But when I looked on AO3, there was just one fic, written a little over two weeks prior. The author was really grateful for my comment, responding with one twice as long as mine…something that’s never happened to me before! A few months later, someone else commented, and posted a fic of their own a few days afterwards. I really want to keep the momentum for this fandom going, and it’s finally given me the boost of motivation I needed to finish—and publish—my first fanfic. It’s not done yet, but I have about a thousand words written as of right now.