Eight Years.

I have been on wattpad 7-8 years and this whole time I've been writing and updating. My current account is not even a year old at this point but my other one is 7, and my first is 8 years old. For reference, I am 18, so for most of my life I've been a writer on here and I truly love it. I honestly don't see myself stopping for a while because it's a part of me at this point, however as I've gotten older and especially now, I've started learning how to let wattpad take a backseat.

For most of my life, wattpad has been an escape and something I've been very attached to alongside my writing, however I've learned to focus on myself a bit more as well as... well reality. This can be shown in my lack of updates, or rather the longer amount of time in between them.

I've gotten busier but I've also just learned that while I love wattpad, it isn't everything. I write now only when I feel like it, which isn't always no matter how much I love writing, and I'll admit lots of times I also procrastinate it even when I am in the mood to write, but the main point is— I love writing and always will, however it is not my life anymore.

I write and update when I feel like it and have learned to not care for the pressure of updating because well I have other things to worry about, better things to worry about.

I'm happy or at least I'm learning how to be, and I am still learning how to take care of myself and honestly just have a life outside of this app and my stories, so I truly appreciate everyone's patience with updates taking longer.

I never thought I'd get to a point in my life where I not only could but want to step back a bit from wattpad and just live, because for a very long time wattpad has been my life. Now I've learned to let it just be a little part of my life and not the biggest part. I don't even know if anyone will understand this or even read it but yeah, maybe if people do someone will understand.

This isn't me leaving, or saying I'm not updating anymore, it's me saying yeah I know updates have been taking longer, here's why, you don't have to like it, you don't have to even bother reading this, and if you don't like it, leave.

I have so much more planned for my writing on here but it just isn't my whole focus anymore. I am a writer and always will be, but now I'm interested in living too and also writing my own original stories (I want to be a published author someday) and I know a lot of you wait patiently for my updates, and I appreciate it so much because truly if I were to force updates out like I used to, I wouldn't be as proud of my books as I am because I like giving it my all and I can't do that when I'm trying to be a machine and churn out updates.

This is partly why in the future I will be writing and completing books prior to posting so y'all still get regular updates but I can take my time with the books too so you guys get the best possible writing, but as I finish Medium it will take time for updates to come out and all I can do is hope yall will stick around for it, and if not, that's okay.

Anyways, until next time, thanks for reading and remember I'm glad you're here!