Cora Westfield is pretty happy being single. As a chief design editor at Garth Publishing, she doesn't have much interest in dating again, but when she reluctantly agrees to go on a date set up by her friend and meets Seth Gregory, she wonders if sh...
Hi guys! Long time, no see, huh? I actually can't remember exactly when I finished writing Going Up, but probably four years ago, or something like that. I guess it takes a global pandemic to bring me back to Wattpad...
Anyway! I'm back and here with a brand new and exciting story. I hope that you'll notice a difference in my writing and some growth (I hope! If not... oops). Before we start, there are quite a few things I want to say about this story:
1) I am white and British. This story is written from Cora's perspective, who is a Black American woman. There will be things that I get wrong, or don't understand and I'm sorry for that. If I have been offensive in any way, please point it out to me. I would only ask that you do so kindly: I am aware that I will continue to make mistakes but I am willing and open to learning. When I started writing this story around three years ago, I think, I was aware about the lack of diversity in my other books and I can only apologise for that as well. This is my attempt to tell a story that represents New York a bit better. I hope you like it. (Also, as I mentioned, I am British. Some of my language will probably not be the American English that might be used there. I hope you can live with that)
2) This story is set in the same world as Going Up. Despite my (many!!) failings when I wrote that story, I do love some of the characters and I also wanted to give myself a chance to improve on one of them, in particular. You'll see.
3) This is mostly pre-written. I just have the epilogue and some editing stages to go. Hopefully updates should be fairly regular.
4) All rights reserved. No stealing and all that.
5) Lastly - be kind. To each other and my characters. I hope you'll love this book as much as I have loved making it (if any of you are still here after all this time!!).
I put together some character aesthetics below (this is my first time making them, pls be nice lol - also if anyone wants to make some let me know!!). I made two for both Cora and Seth because I'm indecisive hehe. Feel free to picture them as you like, but don't white-wash my characters. Except Seth, he is the whitest of white boys.
Cora Westfield:
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Seth Gregory:
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Terry Westfield:
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Rose Sheffield:
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Maybe I'll put together a playlist at some stage too, who knows. Also, maybe I'll add other character aesthetics as we go. We'll see.
Anyway, here we are. Hope you love this story as much as I do!
