way up • stephen curry [au]

please do not steal.

hi everyone! i know it's been a while but i still get tons of notifs out of this story and i'm so happy when i see new readers and old readers rereading for how many times. i wrote this story since 3-4 years ago and i'm surprised at how far it has come, needless to say, i earned many wattpad friends (that i'm very grateful for) bc of this too, but nowww i have a problem :(

apparently i was told that 'way up' is being copied by another author. literally same plot, same dialogue (though it was written differently), and just overall very identical to be a coincidence. i was able to read some chapters and can confirm it's true. i like to think it's a compliment in some way that this story has inspired other writers to also write their own content. way up also had its own inspirations when i wrote it, but straight off copying the story is just a no-no to me :( tbh when i started writing for nba back in 2015, i haven't read any curry fics that were in a cliché high school setting (as far as i can remember) so i decided to use that theme to be able to have a different vibe among the rest of the other fanfics.

i am not some entitled author to be writing this note. i am just a regular author who puts my imagination into writing as a hobby and it's kinda not fun to see your work being stolen ESPECIALLY without your permission. i remember updating so frequently before that i write chapters every day with only 6 hours of sleep just bc i cant afford to make you guys wait too long, but then i realized how exhausting that is that i take breaks every now and then to catch up with my life. knowing that i put real effort in this story really makes me sad that it's so easy for others to just steal. i am not going to call the person out, but if you know who you are i'm asking you nicely to try and understand where i'm coming from. hopefully we can avoid it in the future :)

to old & new readers, thank you for loving not just way up but even the characters i built in it. you guys mean the world to me.

- az 🖤