BROKEN

Author's Note

Hello everyone who may or may not be reading this story as updating is very spotty.

By spotty I'm talking update two chapters a day or update two chapters per three years and there's no in between.

As the author of Broken I feel obligated to inform you of the reasons why I haven't been updating and I trust you, as readers, because I know some of you personally, to not go spreading my secrets around albeit major or minor.

So here it is:

I'm not okay.

As a person lately I'm just not myself. I'm not happy and I don't like getting on Wattpad often because I'm not in a good place as of quite recently. I don't know when I'll update again, and I ask that you don't pressure me into it. If I update, I want it to be because I wanted to do this; because I wanted to write this story.

I've always said that forced writing is bad writing, and to tell you the truth if I really enjoyed writing this story I'd be more passionate, but I don't love it the way I use to. Perhaps its writers block or the fact that my passion dies out after waiting too long in between updates; nevertheless, I don't love this story like an author should.

I want to finish it for the sake of the people who enjoy it, but I can't promise when that will be because I want to get right with myself and my decisions first.

I know this will upset people, and I may get an earful from two certain someones at school whenever they read this, but this is my truth and here I am penning it on paper. I want to be happy and I want to have a passion to write this story the way I did a month ago and the way I did when I first started Kara Harrison's journey. I don't want her journey to be affected by how I feel. I don't want any of the characters to be affected by my negativity.

I love my characters. I love Seven, Ace, Kara, Mitchell, Weston, Cora, and the many other fictional people who I hoped to have made so real to the people who read this. I will finish their story. I will finish it for them and I will finish it for everyone who has supported me in writing this, but I want to finish it for me too and I need time before I can do that. I don't know how much time, but I need time.

I want to get right with myself physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually before I go hashing it out with this journey again.

Once again, I'm sorry about this and I don't want to press publish thinking people are going to freak out over IBG_12 updated Broken because really, it's just Ireland Garrett informing everyone that she needs a break and promising everyone that this journey is not over and that someday she will continue it.

Thank you to everyone who has stuck with this story so far, and I hope that you may even stick around to see the new stuff I hope to bring to the table when everything is coming up Ireland again. Thank you guys! I love you and I couldn't ask for a better support team than the one I've got right now!

See you soon!

Much love

Ireland Garrett