Okay, to say I'm a little annoyed is an understatement.

Now usually I do expect people to want more, but this is here to remind you all that I am human and can only do so much.

Let's break it down.

The last chapter I posted was around a week before Christmas, so I decided to take the holidays off to relax and spend time with my pretty tightly knit family and friends. But to also to give my body the break it has been needing since the beginning of last year from the relentless workouts I have pushed it through in order to lose weight. It needed a well deserved break. This includes my mental health. 

When I came back, I posted a new fanfiction that I decided to work more on in terms of chapters because that's what I was feeling more up to and creativity was all for. During this time I also decided to finally stop a lot of my fanfictions, either putting them on hold or discontinued.

Why? You may ask, because things were not working out for those fanfictions, I felt pressured and didn't have anymore fun writing them, and some since I was gone for the whole summer last year I just lost passion in writing them. So I just stopped them, leaving them in the past.

In my personal life, I'm a Highschool Student, sure I am homeschooled but that doesn't mean I don't do less work or stress over it any less, especially when I am a Senior in Highschool. Looking into colleges while having anxiety- Doing that by yourself by the way, sucks ass.

When I'm not doing school, I'm doing my chores, helping make meals, working out, making sure my friends are okay and that their day is going well and if not I will spend hours trying to make them feel better, which does indeed hinder my usual day to day schedule but that doesn't stop me from making sure that they are okay. Then I get on the computer, ready to write only for my computer to take up to an hour to even function properly for me to even write on.

There are other factors that I could add but, the points is... You don't know my life outside of writing fanfictions, you don't know my personal life. Sure, on my profile it lists my age and my first name, along with my real face as my profile pic, but it never goes beyond that.

So when I get a comment 'Update', or 'Update please'. I'm not fazed. I know and appreciate when people enjoy my writing and the character or series I'm writing about. But a few days ago, I get a comment. A comment that just sat me off and I was ranting to my friend about it to vent so I didn't personally reply to this person and cause a unnecessary stir because I can get very emotional and angry when something or someone sets me off.

I'm not going to name the person who commented this, but I will include the comment.

"We need more. You can't leave us at a cliffhanger it's not fair. I know this is written weird but I don't care."

Do not go and bash this person if you find this comment, if you do I will report your account for harassing them. Got it? This chapter is here to let them learn from their mistakes and let the rest of you know, a comment like this is not right.

"We need more." I was like okay, sure great you are enjoying this. I'm glad.

"You can't leave us at a cliffhanger it's not fair." Not fair? There is a relationship between the writer and the reader, seeing me leaving it at a cliffhanger as 'not fair' is a stretch, meaning the person is annoyed that I haven't updated yet.

"I know this is written weird but I don't care." I do. I do care. This is my fanfiction, which by the way, is from the fabulous year of 2016. That's how old it is, three years old. I was 15 when I started writing this. This is close to the longest fanfiction that has taken me to finish because of how many roadblocks I encountered during these past three years.

What is wrong with this comment is how it is worded, the wording can be coming off as very self-entitled and annoyed, I went with self-entitled because believe it or not, I do go to your guy's accounts to see what you are up to. Stalker ish? No, because a lot of people do it, including to me. I like seeing what people's works are and what they do on a site like WattPad.

Speaking of WattPad, here is another thing that myself and many other writers have been dealing with. Scam bots are plugging up our notifications by commenting on our stories. I have gotten over 20 of them and have been reaching out to Wattpad about it, while also going to people's messages to tell them to not contact them if I see someone comment on the scam bot's page. From what I have heard, this only happens to people who have published works on WattPad, doesn't matter if it's popular or not, they will comment and say that a random user has won a WattPad Premium account with a provided link.

Which brings up something else, I have low iron. Low iron is hard to deal with because your energy levels are constantly low, so all you want to do is sleep, and your body is in need of warmth. To fix low iron people usually eat more dairy, but I can't, I'm lactose intolerant which just makes it worse.

I'm realizing that I have basically written a whole chapter of just ranting and explaining why I have yet to update. But I did edit the first chapter of The 8Th Sin today, so go read that to see the edited version that you don't care about.

That line was more harsh than intended but at this point, it just shows how annoyed I am about this situation. 

Another thing that irks me that before that person made that comment, I actually responded to another person asking about when I will update this again, which basically gave the short version of this extensive update. The person could have simply gone back a few lines, clicked or tapped on the comment and seen my response.

Whenever I do things like this it just becomes a mess and makes me not want to post this but I have to in order to get this across.

I have a life outside of WattPad, I am a human with responsibilities. A random 17 year old girl on the internet who doesn't get paid to write fanfictions.

To the person who originally left that comment, if you want to contact me through the messages you are free to do so. At this point I am tired of harboring these feelings and just needed to get it out without creating any hostilities with anybody in the comments.

Could I have handled this situation better? Sure, but please try and see this from my point of view, this happens to writers on here too many times to even count so before you write a comment, asking for them to update. Be respectful, don't do what this person did even if it wasn't intended to be mean or rude. 

Thank you for reading, I don't know when I will update this, but you guys will know when you get that notification. I will talk to you all later. -Amanda, the person behind these words.