Only enemies | ongoing

announcement

Hi my loves. I know it's been a few months. I have read all your guys' concerns and it's so deeply appreciated how much you guys care for these books. I am going to be honest though I have not opened up Wattpad at all for the last four months or so. I tried so hard writing over the summer, but I failed you guys and myself.

The one thing I always promised myself as a writer was I was never going to force myself to write. Writing has always come easy to me, building these worlds and creating characters has always come easy to me. It was a passion, not a hobby.

But in recent months I can say it's the hardest thing I have done. It feels weird coming back to these characters after leaving their unfinished stories to collect dust. It feels like I betrayed them in a way. And myself in a way. I've been avoiding opening up only enemies and even Wattpad. I think if my 17 year old self could see where I'm at right now she would be all so proud and disappointed. Only because she would have never left a book not finished for two years. But life happens, and I'm not 17 anymore with all the time on my hands. I'm 20 now, a junior in college and I've grown so much since then as a person.

In a way it's almost like I grew apart from these characters and this world. I've been trying to find the girl who wrote these books so effortlessly, who poured her all into them. But it's hard to find that part of me when that passion died just a little bit. And it brakes my heart to say that. I don't want you guys to panic and think that this is the end of the Only You series because it's not. I've been thinking about it a lot recently.

Thinking about where I want this series to go and how I will finish these books. I think the only way for me to do that, is to start from book 1, my baby that started it all. Only You. As I go back and read old chapters I realized that so many people love that book, and it has over 1M reads. But it's not me anymore. It needs to be changed, there's so much wrong with the book.

So I've decided that I will rewrite both Only You and Only Layla. Both will have the same plot, same characters but updated versions in the sense of grammar, and character development and story development. I am going to finish Only Enemies first. But on my own. I'll publish all chapters at once. And then after that, I will re-write Only You, and Only Layla. Then I'll finish the rest of the series. From there I'll decide if I want to publish all books on Wattpad or self publish them into physical copies. I think this is the only way the series will succeed and the only way I can finish the books. Is a fresh start. I hope you guys find it in your hearts to forgive me. I've missed you guys so much, and I'm deeply truly sorry.

    •    Jazelle 🖤