I've been writing for a good while, but my main writing passion at the moment originated from NaNoWriMo 2017. I was trying to decide on what to write, unable to figure out what I felt like writing...and then a longing to write something magical-girl flavoured came to me. I figured something like that wouldn't get readers, would probably be assumed to be shallow and stupid...but I liked the idea that was sprouting in my head, and I asked myself that if I didn't write what I wanted to write, what was the point of me writing?
So that November, I wrote 66,000 words of the first draft of Papillon, a story about a magical girl after her story of saving the world. It was one of the few novel-length stories I'd ever finished—and it became the first I started writing a second draft of. I'd fallen in love with the story, the world, the characters, and I wanted it to be as best as I could possibly make it. I wanted to share what I had made with others, something that could perhaps excite and inspire them just as my favourite creators have done for me.
I loved the world so much that I decided I wanted more stories set in that world, exploring the lore and mysteries that the first book set up. The initial idea was telling the story of a new heroine as she gathered fellow magical girls and opposed the mysterious Big Bad, but then I found myself thinking that, just as Papillon played on the traditional premise of the genre by taking place after said premise had played out, I could make this second story into something that approached the traditional formula in a different way. And so Dove became the protagonist of the story, and it became named after her as Papillon shared its protagonist's magical-girl moniker.
Eventually, I decided on the name Glints Saga for the series. Being a series of stories about different groups of magical girls over the span of many years, "Saga" seemed a fitting word for the series. As for "Glints"...it sounded magical and whimsical, as well as fitting with the mythology of the magical girls, so I went with that.
And now I'm here because my low self-value makes me value my work almost entirely on what others think of it and I haven't gotten many readers on other sites, so perhaps Tapas readers are a more fitting demographic for my work. I hope. 
