Room Mates (Incomplete - I'm sorry guys, explanation in last chapter)

Goodbye and Thankyou

Hello this is Alisha. For the longest time I've been on hiatus and promising I'll update. I'm sorry but I'm having to break that promise. I'm making Soonhoon an incomplete book for many reasons. Please keep on reading as I tell you more about it.

Why I'm ending Roommates
To start off, Soonhoon is my very first and so far my only fanfic/book in general. I've written it and started when I was a bored year 7 kid (So I was around 13 years old). I was not experienced but Soonhoon was an up and rising ship and I was one of those first people to write about them on Wattpad. I gotta give a lot of my thanks to that fact. This book has a really special place in my heart. It received a lot of undeserved love and support. I met amazing people and had so much fun but I didn't expect how much "growing up" can affect my time.

I had a schedule to update weekly but I'm a person from a traditional asian family. I study a lot to maintain good grades, I wannna get a job in the medical field. These factors were the first reason why I slowly was unable to keep up with updating and eventually it was hard to make time to update.

Soon enough it's been so long that I began to need to reread my book cause I couldn't remember what has happened and what I was supposed to write. I even made a mistake where I revealed that Jihoon was gay to Soonyoung twice 😂. Then I went on hiatus, the one I have been on till today and right now, Roommates doesn't seem like my book anymore. Of course I still remember writing it and all the memories with it but so much time has passed and my writing style and thinking has changed. Having ideas for a fluff story have become difficult. Now I've accepted that this is now a past piece work of mine. I've left it for so long that it has put itself on the bookshelf without me noticing... well more like accepting.

I say the truth when I say I wanted to update and bring an end to this book but to begin with, this book had no real plot. It was a day to day slice of life to be very honest but had enough of a plot where it couldn't be called one shots neither could it end whenever. To bring an end to this book, I would've needed to slowly integrate a plot into what was already there to not suddenly change the pace. Then I would've had to slowly bring it to an ending I was satisfied with. Indeed, my ideas were set too big for me to complete.

The combination of time management and just changing as a person both brought me to the conclusion that I should end this book. While it's still what it is, while it's still something I'm proud of. Keep it a memory and always be thankful for the experience it has given me.

Thank you for everything
Truely thank you. Even to this day, I take my time to go to people's profile to personally thank them for adding roommates to their reading list or to thank them for following me (and to also welcome them to my family). I also try my best to reply to every comment since I'm so very thankful and believe creating a community is also as important as the book itself. However, notifications aren't the greatest and I've probably missed a few here and there but I'll try to get the them all and will continue to do so even after I post this making it official that this book is incomplete.

So many things have happened. First off I got to 10K reads which I never imagined and opened a Q&A/tag books to further interact with everyone (you can find it in my profile). In 2016, it won the Best Couple Kpop Watty Award. Currently I'm #129 on shipping and have 103K READS. Like what? I'm so truely thankful that even in my time gone, this book still received love. These achievements have not been ignored. I'm truely so happy for all of it.

Just thank you to all my readers, old and new. Without you guys this book wouldn't have gotten this far or achieved anything that it has. You guys made it what it is today. I am the one who wrote it but you guys brought it to life. Nothing is has a worth, no matter how amazing it might be unless it reached someone. I ain't saying this book was amazing, my 13 year old self wrote it. But I can say that it reached someone and that enough is something I'm proud of. Have you ever noticed or wonder why I never talked about getting likes, only reads? It's because I wanted people to enjoy it, that was enough to satisfy me. Comments were only a bonus.

It's almost 3 years since this book has been made (February 7th 2016) and I can say, I'm satisfied. I'm happy and feel like my mark has been made. It's small but I was able to talk to people, help them with their problems, bring a moment of peace and escape from reality to others.

But still, I'm sorry for ending it. Please forgive me, who went back on my words. I hope you all can keep this book as a good memory just like I have.

Any plans for the future?
Well surprisingly, I'm more of an artist than a writer. I can proudly say my art is better than my writing by a lot. I might write another story but that's if I find time. Currently I'm training at a game studio (part of a school subject), an artist for 2 groups (one singing cover/VA group and one game designing group), in 3 singing cover groups, trying to make a comic with a good friend, have tutor and trying to become a doctor. It's a lot of things which I accepted as a challenge (since my school recommended against it and I was like NAH LET ME DO WHAT I WANT).

If I can learn to organise my time better and become more efficient, I'll write again. With a more planned out story, more better writing and maybe with someone else, so that if my schedule isn't working at any moment, I'll have a support. This isn't a solid plan, just a "what if?" But if I did write it, I don't ask for support or anything. I wouldn't be writing about a ship, I would be doing something new and doing something new means I need to learn to work from the bottom again.

Well that's all
Indeed this is it. My dms are always open to conversations, I'm happy to meet new people and to give advice whether it's in writing or life. Or if you just need someone ☺️This has been amazing and an unforgettable journey. In my head, I knew for sure that I'm the end Soonyoung and Jihoon would've gotten together and that's the only ending this book would've gotten.

Have any moments you remember? Leave them in the comments. Have a chat with me, I ain't scary, I'm 148cm tall. A memory I remember is how so many readers and any new reader that comes never forget to bring attention to my typo;
"Take your time coming down. I know you have a lot of LANGUAGE to carry." - the landlord that made this story happen in the first place.
My dumb young self didn't know how to spell luggage and since it autocorrected to that, I thought it was right hahahaha 😂. Ahh good times~

Anyways, thank you and as always, have a good day/afternoon/evening. I love you all guys ❤️❤️❤️
- Alisha (26th December 2018)