The Leverage

NOT AN UPDATE

You don't have to read this, this is not a part of "The Leverage". It's just the author.

Remember me?

I owe everyone an overdue explanation and apology for dropping off the face of Wattpad.

I'm very sorry for my disappearance from this account. I suppose I should say I suffered a midlife crisis, even if it was at sixteen. Life can be crazy.

I just lost my momentum for this story. I still have had passions for writing and I've been writing for the past year in books I'm very excited about, and I'm sorry to say that The Leverage just wasn't something I was passionate about. The longer I went without updating, the harder it got to return. I wanted badly to update for all of my awesome fans of this story, but I just felt dread writing it, so I couldn't force myself to write.

Writing should be fun and exciting, because that's how I find it when I'm not burnt out. The simple truth of my absence is that this book began when I was thirteen and it's been a long process. I needed a break. I've developed so much as a writer, but this story restricts my writing, because I feel stuck at age thirteen when I come back to it. I feel embarrassed of the plot holes in this story and the poor writing and the annoying tendencies throughout. I grew up writing this book, and who I am now is so far from the girl who began it. So, I just fell out of love with a story I used to love so much, and that's hard for me.

But, I've realized that a story is a story, and all stories should be told. This is just a draft, and it's mine. No one else's. This is a documentation of how I have grown as a writer. If someone doesn't like how stupid the writing is at times or the major mistakes throughout, then they can stop reading. That's not my responsibility to please onlookers at my own creation. This one in particular just shows how I have grown from age thirteen to now, when I'm seventeen and my abilities have matured. It's just hard writing something that reflects my youth now that I've moved on.

But Ally and Trevor deserve to live on (or not, Trevor...) and I have great plans my loyal following has never been able to find out. IM SORRY FOR LEAVING YOU ALL OUT TO DRY. I AM SO SORRY. MY BAD. Don't worry, I've told myself a thousand times to "update!!!" too. Sorry I never did until now. Again, my bad. I know I dropped the ball and I've been dreading returning because I know I deserve backlash and, well, I'm scared. So, sorry. Sincerely.

Hopefully we can move on from this and make up.

I have been writing, though. I have started lots of stories and have been REWRITING this one. It will one day be posted. It will be much different but still the same general gist. Sort of. Not really. But it's the same idea. You'll see one day. I've also been writing lots of other things entirely different from this story, most of it a bit darker but still romantic, stories I'm really passionate about and am not embarrassed of.

BUT, These stories are on a different account. It's called Ascendancy_ and I hope you check it out. I have the beginnings to a few stories and it will (hopefully soon) be where I post my loose rewrites of this story. I have a lot of kidnapping ideas that will be posted there, so you should all enjoy it. I won't disappear on that account.

But I won't lie. Updates will be slow on this story because I'm not as focused on it and not passionate about it anymore, but I really do want to tell Ally's story. So I will. But be patient because I can't commit to it entirely. I'm sorry and I understand your frustrations, but I only want to write what I want to write when I want to write it. I don't want to hide or feel stressed so I just post something random. I want to write good stories.

But I will finish this story and finish lots of others. I won't disappear again, even if updates aren't too quick or anything.

Thank you for dealing with my hiatus.

Thank you for everyone who has encouraged me to update. Every single comment or message, no matter what it was, is what brought me back to this account. As you all have seen, I'm completely okay with pretending this account doesn't exist, which I'm sorry for and regret. But each comment or message forced me each time I opened my email to WRITE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. VACATION IS OVER. IS TREVOR DEAD OR ALIVE, YOU CANT JUST END THERE, DUDE. So thank you so much and please continue to force my to get back to this story because I see every little "update plz" comment and they all mean so much to me even though I have an odd way of showing my appreciation by ignoring everyone and pretending like Ally suddenly doesn't mean the world to me, but she does. So I'm not leaving her silent again, because she doesn't like that too much. And I have noticed that I don't, either.

REMEMBER my new account, you just might like it.

Ascendancy_

PS

I have an awesome twin who is an incredible writer. Seriously. She has a lot of drafts just waiting to be posted and they all blow me away, so it would be in your best interest if you're needing to read a great story. Her account name is whaleandwasp

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