There's no amazing milestone that has triggered me wanting to say this but there doesn't need to be.

The amount of people that follow me is so much more than I ever thought I'd get.

IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS 1D FANFIC. When I started up my first wattpad account writing shitty One Direction fanfic... I never thought anyone would read it.

I just posted it because it was fun. I really enjoyed writing and well I still do! I never got many reads but that didn't matter to me. Then that account got hacked and I had to start again. (I'm extremely grateful it got hacked otherwise this account would never have existed).

I started up my second account. Still posting 1D fanfic. I still didn't get anywhere but, again, I continued because it was fun. Thennnn a friend from school found it.

Soooooo I restarted a third time. And this account was born. Sort of. It was originally named MysteryAuthor73. What a crappy name, huh? Still 1D fanfic though. Y/N fics... I'm sure you know the stuff.

My friend found it again or rather I told her about it. I got scared she'd tell everyone so I changed the name.

ALLTIMEPHAN73

WE'RE HERE

still no reads/votes though.

I started to post phanfiction... my first ever one being The Voice Against Your Silence. All I have to say is cringe. I can't even look at it without cringing. It was so bad. It got a few reads and that was extremely exciting for me! I deleted it as soon as I realised how shit it was. I wonder if anyone on this account had read it. Probably not and I hope none of you have...

I made my first internet friend because of TVAYS and I still remember her. We don't talk anymore but it was nice. I made lots more friends that have come and go and I'll never forget any of them. They have had huge impacts on my life :)

Then Dan and Phil One Shots was born. It was just as crap as TVAYS but it got better. The more I wrote the better I got. I was in a bad place at the time and writing was my only (healthy) outlet. I'm pretty sure I posted every day for a while. Then I started getting reads.

I didn't (and still don't) understand why. People just started to comment and vote and soon enough I had a couple regular readers who I began to notice and recognise. Although numbers weren't everything, they still motivated me to continue.

Then I hit the part limit on wattpad and panicked a lot. I was like 'people are going to stop reading now if I move to another book' but nope. Most people happily transferred over to my new book.

To this day it still shocks me that people read my stuff. Maybe I'm talking like I've got millions of readers or something but I don't. I have 2.19k followers at this point in time and I don't think I'd mind if it never grew. I never expected this at all. I remember getting excited over 100 followers. Now I'm almost a fifth of the way to 3k.

It should go without saying that I read every single comment I get. Every single one. I may not reply to them all but I sure do read them all. I will never not read them all. (I don't get many by the way but you know XD)

This account has evolved as I have. It started off with shitty 1D Y/N fanfics, went on to phanfic and now I'm writing Jacksepticeye, Markiplier and CrankGameplays stuff too. My writing has improved substantially.

Thank you for reading my stuff. Seriously. I'm just a 17 year old, still studying and pretty confused about what's going to happen in the future. I hope I never stop writing because it's amazing and has completely changed my life.

At this point I should probably be crowned king/queen/whatever of cheesy speeches. I do them all the time but hey, they never become any less true. I love you. Every single one of you.

You're all real people and just the fact that you take some time out of your day or week to read something I've written... it amazes me. You could be doing anything else but you read my fanfiction.

If you're starting out then just know... you get better. You may think your writing isn't very good and won't get anywhere but it gets better the more you do it and it gets places if you're consistent and passionate. If you want me to read something you've written, I'd be delighted to but I'm not that great. I can try my best though.

I can't believe you care about me. Especially if you read this book... it's literally just a compilation of shit that happens to me and the emotions that run through my brain. It isn't even very fandom related so you must care about me... wow. Just wow.

Thank you.

So much.

Even if you just read silently and don't comment. It means a lot to me.

You're not just a number. You're all people with names and ages who go/have been to school and maybe work and have families and pets and have hobbies and friends and wow.

THANK YOU. I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'D WASTE TIME READING MY SHIT.

So yeah, I think about this a lot.