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#FanAppreciationDay and #30DaysOfHeybourne generated so much interest and participation from our small but mighty community! These flash fic fests took place from March 20 to April 20 as a way to honor the first airing of Season 2, and really took on a life of their own!
Here’s a look at a month of Heybourne by the numbers:
- 1 Fan Appreciation Day
- 30 Days of Heybourne
- 35 new works (including several new multi-chapter fics)
- 24 writers, including 5 first-time writers!
- 131,651 words of content
- That is longer than Pride & Prejudice and more than 5x the length of Jane Austen’s unfinished novella for Sanditon!
Readers also showed up and showed the love!
- 1065 comments
- 2825 kudos
- 18,051 hits
- (And counting! These are just a recent snapshot).
Recognition really fuels the creative soul, so please remember to inspire your favorite writers to continue by showing them some love with comments and kudos.
We hope the energy continues–after all, isn’t a day not spent in the company of Heybourne a day wasted? Keep writing, or write for the first time! Give those kudos and comments! And of course, keep reading.
Finally, it takes a village to pull off this kind of community effort with this level of participation. While we thank everyone who participated, special thanks goes to the organizers: Aries614, GatHeart, LushnessJackson, and Sanditon1820 ❤️!