Bottle of Water

Oh OK, thx for the info

@sleepyMariam_15 she is currently in her last semester so she doesn't have a lot of time but once she is done she will begin to update again, give it some time and then we will finally get our next chapter to read 

I love it too, i hope more authors would write stories or even make webtoons like these.

Once I’m able to I’ll return and write more. This account is not abandoned it’s just difficult for me to dedicate time to writing right now. 

I do plan on writing more in the future I made an announcement via patreon but it’s on me for assuming everyone saw it. So my personal life blew up and I’m on my last semester before graduation so I won’t be able to write for a while. 

Congratulations for having 1k followers!

congratulations!! i love your worksss♥️

@Bottle7
             I may be a little late but, Congratulations ♡⁠˖⁠꒰⁠ᵕ⁠༚⁠ᵕ⁠⑅⁠꒱❤

@Bottle7 Congratulations, I hope things go well.

Forgot to add this in but yes I did add in the wattpad votes to the poll results! Don't worry your votes counted!
            
            And before I forget I'm going to give a week or two before I run the 800 follower poll, seeing as we're so close to 900. (Not nervous about the continuing rising number at all ha-ha.) Hopefully it won't take as long as Hubert and Sloane's piece. I'll be sure to post progress pictures on patreon and later everywhere else regardless.
            
            Oh and one last thing, I made a small comic strip?? 3 panel thing?? It was held for members for like a week, but it's available for everyone's eyeballs now on patreon and-- And the current world map has unlocked for everyone as well. 
            
            I've been working on it off and on trying to figure out names and researching. It's kind been interesting to think about the political implications behind everything. I'll eventually be doing a map for the states and the Empire specifically so I can point to all the locations we've been to so far. But that's for the future.
            
            Just wanted to get those last tidbits out there!

Omg thank you so so much, I didn't expect a through breakdown but I literally Copy pasted this into my notes . To be honest I don't think of writing for sense of being popular (though I really wished this was as  popular as bl) I found myself as someone who wasn't really appealed by the tropes in a heterosexual relationship (as a straight  woman) because I didn't find the dynamic interesting for years. And when I ever did read bl (danmei, manga/manwha or even random novels) I'd just end up self-projecting  on the mc or the  seme. So finding this type of genre when the fl can be just as assertive, attractive as aswell, as  inserting into the man . Was defiantly a gold mine I've been looking for years. And while reading your books it just kept ticking all my boxes.
            So it's more of a yearning to finding "my pople" to know that I wasn't weird or odd for not finding other typical popular tropes as interesting, though after searching I've found some here and there in Ao3t hat are slowlsy begining to rise. So I guess am slowly building my collection. 
            I just want to say thank you so much for your time to write this down, and I hope if a book does come you might the first to read it.
            

7.) Keep the work you don't publish. Keep the ideas that you don't know how to complete at the moment. Eventually you're going to run into a spot where you're exhausted mentally but want to write regardless, having something to work off of rather than working off of nothing can be helpful and who knows maybe your second attempt at the story will solve a problem you ran into. 
            
            I'm a bit of a data hoarder... I'll admit to that much. But it's helpful to have something to go back and read up on. I still have the original lay out of the first book in the series that I go back and read the summaries for. 
            
            How i had that laid out was I came up with a title and I used short hand like mc or ml to describe the situation before going back and giving them names. Since you mentioned you were in the outline phase this might be helpful. Just take a few days and run through every single idea you can think of before selecting your favorites. Try to summarize the start of the story to the end, that way you have an idea of what you want to do with the story.
            
            Keep it short and sweet and don't worry about spelling and grammar. It's just for you and-- let's be honest you're still going to have issues with that once you hit publish anyway lol. Don't worry it happens to everyone.
            
            Anyway that's my top 7 tips for being an online writer! Will you be successful? Idk. Depends on what you call success. But will you have fun? Well I certainly am. That's why I keep doing this. Enjoy yourself above all else. Cause at the end of the day the only person that you really need to like your story is you.
            
            Hope this helps and good luck!

5.) Don't save on wattpad. Do not save your work only on wattpad. I repeat do not save your work only on wattpad. 
            
            Start a patreon, cross post to AO3, get an inkitt, anything literally anything else and work on your stuff there before posting to wattpad. Always, always, always, keep copies. and save often. 
            
            The number one issue I see with wattpad is other writers losing their work. Their account gets randomly banned, there's some glitch with the site, and a thousand other problems. If you can get something that has a cloud that will keep copies of your work. I've literally lost entire stories because of technical issues. 
            
            6.) Set clear boundaries and keep them. As you grow you're going to get more people reading your stories. It sounds great but it's not always very great. You're going to get some odd balls out of the wood work and you're not always going to match their freak. Especially if your work leans more towards smut like mine. 
            
            I've had people trying to get my email address so we can talk about my explicit scenes together. (The message sounded like they wanted to do back and forth dirty talk which-- okay there's sites for that. Idk what you're expecting out of someone with a literal water bottle as their pfp.) I've had people complain about how long i take to update, and I've had people be straight up rude to me. 
            
            The block button is your friend. Do not be afraid to use it. and if someone comes back again after you block them. Block them again. If it costs you your peace it's too expensive. 
            
            I also have set rules regardless of what site I'm on because of the nature of my work. I don't respond to private messages. I've only broke this rule once because someone was very nice and sent me fan art. The conversation didn't veer off into strange territory and ended well. Other than that, I will not do it. I don't know how old you all are and if there's anything to be said, it can be said where everyone else can see it.

@Bottle7 Tonya and Malcom! 

@Bottle7 Hadley and Laken, Silas and Reagan, or Lexi and Lola

@Bottle7 Lexi and Lola