warning: riddled with insanity, spelling mistakes, and rambling. ur very well going into my personal diary here.
P.s the photo above is my new collection of the harry potter boxed set. Just feel like showing off a bit to you guys

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when i was in junior high, i loved writing fanfiction (my fandom is naruto and i write mostly sasuhina and if you get what i'm saying, then COMMENT ON THIS LINE AND LETS' HIGH FIVE!). high school started and i had this burning ambition to be 'cool' , so i deleted all of my fanfics and started skipping lots of classes and getting bad grades and collecting bad habits (because you know... i stupidly thought that POPULAR =/= GOOD GRADES). it's so stupid.

i spent most of my high school and college doing a lot of bad things that wouldn't probably pass the pg13 rating that i put on this book. but one particular incident made me search for 'true self' again,

so i started writing. safe to say that for about a year in 2013 to 2014, my life revolved around wattpad. i was in my last year of uni. i finished uni at 21 because i started really young (didn't finish high school, just skipped to uni because i'm cool like that) so i was probably around 20-21 when i started writing MAID FOR HIRE.

which brings me to the FIRST WATTPAD MOMENT FOR ME:

1. getting into chapter 7 of Maid for Hire

you know that it's easy to get to the first 3 chapters... then it starts to become excrutiatingly hard to write the next. so , i was estastic when i posted the seventh chapter for Maid for Hire

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2. getting my first 100.000 reads

I remember, since I was counting the chapters... that it took me 13 chapters for maid for hire to get 100k reads. i posted another story before maid for hire (a vampire story that got taken down within the fifth chapter), but maid for hire is actually the first time i actually wrote an ENGLISH, ORIGINAL STORY OF MY OWN.

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3. inline comments

wattpad circa 2013 didn't have inline comments. when i got comments, i got real discussion about the characters, plot, writing style, etc. imagine coming back to wattpad at 2017 and then realizing why there are a lot of numbers at the east end of my paragraphs.

(most of them are memes, jokes, tv references, 'ALEC RYDER TBBSMY!!!', or personal stories)

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4. getting approached by publishers

spoiler alert: it wasn't a good ride for me

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5. getting burned by publisher

i wouldn't dig to deep, but here's the abridged version: they only wanted money from my readers, without giving enough care to actually polish the book for paying readers.

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6. reaching #1 on TWO GENRES

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7. a comment got 1000 replies

someone commented in my story about her own experience of having a bad boy as her neighbor.

it got 1100 comments and she started a thread on her own. it's been going on for a year and we can basically keep tabs about her relationship with the neighbor and everything!

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8. winning watty award

The Quirky Tale of April Hale won the watty award of 2013 in romance category, which was basically the most prestigious category to be won!

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9. getting actual $$ FROM WRITING

I couldn't believe it. still can't believe it. i'm so happy that people are reading my stories, which basically are set in the western countries, despite me having english as second language, despite my many mistakes, despite my shortcomings as a writer. omfg.

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10. approached to write about a marketing gig for The Fault in Our Stars in 2015

spoiler alert: it didn't end well for me

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11. BOTCHING IT

as some of you guys know, 2015 has been a hard year for me. in fact, 2014 was when i started whirling, 2015 was the worst, and 2016 was when i was suffering and finally starting to get better. i tried writing for the gig as best as i could, but i couldn't quite get into it. it did quite well statistically, but still... i felt bad for the whole thing (and especially since I was quite late for a few times to submit my pieces). i felt like i dissapointed wattpad as a company .

one of my 2017 resolutions is to get the trust of wattpad employees's back. i'm now back. i'm now getting better at handling myself. and if i ever get an opportunity to write again, i'm sure that i won't ever botch it again :)

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12. getting fanmails

it's actually okay if my readers ask me to update fast.

it's okay if they criticize my stories or comment about irrelevant things.

(i'm not a fan of it, but i'm not angry about it) (tbh, sometimes if their life stories are not that interesting, i skip the comments) (yea, in some cases, i don't think i've read all of the comments. esp since wattpad made it so hard to navigate through the comments and some of my chapters have 5k+ comments)

i'm okay being a writing robot. in fact, i quite like being a writing robot. i write everyday for 5 hours. except if i'm going out. but even lately i prefer writing than going out. i don't know why. maybe i'm obsessed.

i like getting annoyed by my readers, or if they send me messages asking me to update, or if they make jokes about my paragraphs. i like seeing a whole new thread blossoming because a single paragraph in my stories. i like watching people getting worked up because of the things that i write. yes, sometimes people can be ungrateful, and yes, technically, i'm doing all of this for free... but i'm happy that people read my stories and that they like it so much that they're compelled to do all those things above.

and i dont know, maybe it's just a rose colored glasses because i've just come back to wattpad and i've just been here for a few months. maybe someday i'll grow jaded and start resenting things. but not now. and maybe not in the foreseeable future.

i love having you guys as my readers, and thank you for staying with me and reading my stuff. you all just made one little sloth (THAT'S ME!) incredibly happy.