Katie is the ultimate planner, with a carefully created life plan, when she grows up she'll have it all: law career, husband, house and kids. On her boyfriend Mark's thirtieth birthday, he proposes. Except he drops a bombshell, he's bored and leaves on a gap year, without her. Katie wonders if she can plan zest into her life without going abroad, after all, she's on the Partner Track Program at a top-notch law firm and can't just leave. Yet she's always wanted to go skydiving, enter a karaoke competition and she surely could squeeze excitement in as well as achieve her law ambitions. But Dan, a work colleague who lives life by the seat of his pants, believes she's going about things all wrong. It's spontaneity she's missing. Even the greatest plan can go fundamentally wrong in love and at work. Katie can plan to love someone forever, but sometimes that someone doesn't plan to love you back. Sometimes careers can become derailed and even go off track. Can Katie learn to let go because sometimes life needs to be lived in the moment? #NaNoWriMo2020

Can't adults take gap years too?

| Wattpad Editor's Choice | Jason Lovett, a no-nonsense guitar-player, is leaving New York to get to a career-making gig in LA. But before he gets far, his car breaks down. Being stranded without a car or money and running short on time to get to the performance of a lifetime, he resorts to his only hope: hitchhiking. Little does he realize that he will be stuck with a strange girl with lavender-colored hair, who drives a Volkswagen Beetle & goes by the name of Della Rae... Who knew traveling with a crazy-haired girl who has cameras, a blog, & an odd fascination with postcards could change so much? Wattpad Featured List - 3.15.18 Wattpad Spring Break Escape List - 4.13.19 Wattpad Editor's Choice - 1.28.2021 COMPLETED (first draft) 1.23.2019 CAST: Shawn Mendes as Jason Lovett Amanda Steele as Della Rae

You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong

Twenty-two year old Grace McCaffrey is humiliated when she can't find a job after graduating college and has to move back in with her parents. She always assumed she'd do something big with her life-create change or do something that matters-not work at the Banner Market as a cashier. Soon, Grace gets roped into being a chaperone for a high school backpacking trip with her ex-boyfriend, Miles Dalby. However, she quickly learns these students are part of a mentorship program for troubled youth. As she tries to get them to open up, Grace starts to doubt herself. How can she make a difference in the world if she can't even help these students? Or is her mom right and sometimes it's the little things that can make all the difference?

Sadie takes her dream trip to Australia, where she embraces solo travel life until she crosses paths with quirky Irish traveller Neil. The two discover they share more than their love for adorable Aussie animals as they complete bucket lists they'd planned with their exes. As their connection strengthens, Sadie considers unsettling her newfound peace and self-acceptance for a connection she'd thought impossible since her destructive break-up. Amby's Contemporary Novella Favourite 2024 ONC Shortlisted Story 2022 Featured on Adventure's 'Modern Adventures' reading list (Nov 2025) ContemporaryLit's Ambassador's Picks (Sept 2025) Ambassador's 'Lattes and Life' chapter of the 'Ambassador's Picks' book (April 2025) ContemporaryLit's 'Hot Encounters' (Dec 2024) 'Contemporary LGBTQIAP+' (June 2024) reading lists Romance's 'Slow Burn' reading list (June 2024) StoriesUndiscovered 'Tales of the Heart' reading list (May 2022) Copyright all rights reserved 2025

Born in a ridiculously rich family, 18 year old Joanna Jones has it all. The looks, the brains, the prefect life, everything, except spontaneity. All her life she's been following carefully laid plans not daring to break one of them, until she agrees to go on a roadtrip across America. Only then she'll forget about all of it and let loose. With the help of a person she met in the middle of nowhere. *Note: This is NOT A FANFIC*

I create alot of stories in my dreams and one of them came to me and I thought I must write this down, so if you love Greta Van Fleet then hopefully you'll enjoy this story 🤷

When her first love falls apart, a Filipina-Canadian foodie is devastated. To salvage their relationship, Maria joins a social-media cooking contest despite her family's advice to move on. Her efforts draw him back until he reveals his loyalty to his new girlfriend. Crushed, Maria uproots her life to move to Thailand to teach English. As her vibrant photos and contest posts catch her ex's interest, the feelings she tried to suppress resurface. The stress of being a new teacher and handling Adrian's mood swings pushes Maria to her breaking point. As her new friends, including her flirty next-door neighbour, encourage her to move on, she must decide between her ex's apologies and promises, a fling with her hot, commitment-phobic neighbour, or time alone to heal and find herself. More to Life is Book 1 in the More to Life series. [Rated mature for the topic of self-harm and emotional abuse] Copyright © 2022 All Rights Reserved Cover images: Grimnoire (Emy) from Unsplash

Four friends, two camper vans and one precious year to have the time of their lives... On a journey through South America studying languages, Jasmine couldn't be more excited to grab life with both hands and get going. But when her family back home falls apart and a mysterious Brazilian boy snakes his way into her life, things begin to get complicated. And it's not just the Amazon rainforests that are getting steamy. «·-·» «·» «·-·» «·» "if you take a step back, and look up at the vastness of the sky, it makes our problems look pretty tiny."