Catching Up With The HasanTwins

2017 Ups & Downs

Update written by: FreedomHasan

Hello, my beautiful readers! I honestly miss you guys so much. I'm so sorry for disappearance for weeks. I HAVE AN EXCUSE THOUGH.

Excuse #1~ I was sick for two weeks

Excuse #2~ I had final

Excuse #3~ I was working on my book I'm currently writing on

Excuse #4~ I was lazy...

Excuse #5~ I was too busy working on my published book

YASSS THATS HAPPENING

I am so happy to say that I'm getting published. I'm publishing 'Mason's Impossible Prey'. It will be out January 16.

I'm honestly so happy and thankful. 2017 offered me many opportunities and I'm very excited for 2018. I'd like to wish everyone a happy New Years and I hope 2018 will be a better year.

I honestly don't have a subject in particular I want to talk about, so it will seem like I'm talking randomly haha.... But mostly, I want to share to everyone my experience here on wattpad in the year 2017 and what I accomplished in it.

As many know, I started writing here on wattpad in 2016. But I grew more in 2017 and I think 2017 offered me many opportunities.

Honestly, my life outside of wattpad in 2017 was pretty normal. I actually went through depressing moments but I'll get to that in a minute. I first want to point out the good things of 2017.

In 2017 I was able to finish 'Mason's impossible Prey'. In only one year, it gained more than 14M reads and I'm honestly so happy. 'Running into Mr. Billionaire' went from 20M reads to 34M reads in 2017.

Another accomplishment is that I started my third book. Never have I ever thought that I'd write one whole book. But now I'm onto my third and you guys are my motivation.

I honestly am so happy that my family here on wattpad grew and they're so supportive. In 2017 I went from 100K beautiful supporters to 290K beautiful supporters. Don't ask me how. I don't know why they'd even decide to join my family. But it's amazing how many friends I have here on wattpad.

Not only that. But in March 2017 I had the best opportunity to become a Wattpad Star. You guys don't know how big this was for me. It literally gives me a chance to get my work out there, not only here on wattpad.

The best thing was that I had the opportunity to publish my book. This is my goal and I'm so excited to accomplish that.

I communicated with awesome readers and that was the another best thing about my experience. I'm not only here to brag about my accomplishments. That's not my intentions. I also want to motivate everyone to not give up. If you came here for the purpose to get your work out there and to start your writing career, then don't give up to do so.

I know it's hard but trust me, it takes time and patience.

And I wish everyone the best.

Yes, 2017 was wonderful. But I also went through depressing moments.

The first moment which left me questioning my writing abilities was when I got rejected to publish my book (before I got the approval to publish MIP) I was so excited that I could finally publish my book. I was so happy. But then I received an email of them saying I couldn't publish RIMB.

It wasn't their fault. RIMB was my first book so obviously it wasn't published material but I still had my hopes up. This was way before I finished MIP. I became so sad and I felt like I was such a horrible author. I felt so unmotivated and started questioning whether I could write or not.

I know I'm not the best writer. I'm still a beginner and I'm still working on my books. But that kind of dismotivated me from writing. However, after awhile I told myself that I'll work on my writing and get better.

I soon finished MIP and after some time. I got my approval that I'd publish MIP. I was honestly so happy. Because even though MIP isn't the best, this was my dream and it was the beginning. I signed the contract in August and it will be out in two weeks!

Take my experience as another motivation to not give up. I know many people try their best to get their work out there. Just make sure your writing doesn't stop. You'll face obstacles, but in the end it's worth it.

I also went through another depressing stage. I know it might not seem big to others but it was a huge deal for me and to this day I'm still suffering with this problem.

In 2017 I gained many weight. It was the fattest I have ever gone to and I felt so ugly. I didn't really notice it until someone I really loved pointed it out, which hurt me so much. It wasn't in a nice way. It was in a way 'you're not beautiful like this. Lose weight'.

Their words hit me and I felt ugly. I am already insecure so with that, it made me 10x insecure of myself. I was literally so desperate to lose weight that I started to starve myself. I would play hours and hours of exercise a day without eating much.

I know that wasn't healthy. I wish I could have done it the healthy way.

I was just so desperate. Eventually, in more than a month I lost around 20 pounds. But after I started eating normally, I started gaining more weight and I'm always paranoid.

I'm in the process of trying to lose weight but this time I'm eating normally. I'm just exercising more. I learned that starving yourself makes it worse. It makes you gain more weight.

If anyone is going through what I went through, don't starve yourself. It doesn't make it better because when you go back to eating normally, you'll gain that weight all over again. Just try to keep your diet healthy and exercise.

That's what I'm trying to do. I'm not as fat as before but I still didn't reach my ideal weight. I'm still insecure but I'm trying to learn to not care about others opinion.

I also went through many problems with family members and there was so much drama in my family which ruined my mood many times. I had to say goodbye to people and remove them out of my life.

I also lost relatives to cancer and kind of isolated myself from my friends for awhile.

There were many bad and good moments in 2017, but I think I said enough. I don't want to bore you guys out. I actually wanted to write a funny update but first, I thought I'd let you know my ups and downs of 2017.

I'm actually excited for 2018 and I'm hoping that I'll get to share more happy moments with you all. Hopefully, next update I'll be able to talk about something that will make you guys laugh.

I'll be back!

~ Raneem