Briar

Would any of you be interested if I posted the first chapter of the fantasy novel I've been working on? 
          
          I've never shared it with anyone, but I'm quite proud of it, and I want other people to see it. I've been working on it since I was like, 12 or 13, I think. I started it during the pandemic, and it started out as a choice project for school, and evolved into a passion project.

I can access my stories again. I'm not sure what the problem was, but it seems to have resolved itself. I'm very happy this issue didn't last long.

So... I can access my stories on mobile but not on my computer. Not good, considering I write and edit my stories on Google Docs before transferring them onto Wattpad. I'm not sure what's going on, but I won't be able to post any story updates until this is resolved.

Is Wattpad being weird for anyone else? I can't access my stories and everything's laggy.

I might be posting more in the coming days, as The Sims 4 is currently unplayable for me. Which sucks because I bought the new pack the day after it came out, and I was having fun with the new fairies, and now my game broke and I can't figure out how to fix it. 
          
          I've tried literally everything. I deleted a bunch of custom content and mods I thought might be the problem, didn't work. I tried repairing the game, didn't work. 
          
          And the worst part is, where I'm currently saved in my game, one of my sims is supposed to age up to a teen. And I can't age her up because the game freezes as soon as it hits 4 AM in-game!
          
          So, yeah. I'm not happy right now.

I’m home from my trip. I’ll start writing again once I’ve had a few days to rest/decompress. 

Today is my 18th birthday. I’m in Paris; having a lot of fun. Got to see the Eiffel Tower. Been in France for a week now, traveling by train to Germany tomorrow, spending a week there. 
          
          Traveling home July 4th. 

I need some advice on something. So, the original story I have on here, Tides of Fate, I shared some of it with my creative writing class. Now, just as a reminder, the story is about a selkie named Elliot, who meets a supernatural researcher named Ivan at a library in a remote fishing village in northern Russia. Elliot had his pelt on the back of his chair, and Ivan accidentally bumped into it when he walked by and knocked it to the floor. Ivan picked it up and gave it back. 
          
          And in my story, giving a selkie back their pelt without ever trying to steal it is equivalent to a marriage proposal. 
          
          Now, in real selkie mythology, no such custom exists. 
          
          And that’s where the problem lies. I shared this story with my friend, and they gave me some good advice, like how making up stuff for a mythological creature may not be the best idea/be considered spreading misinformation. Which is not my intention. At all. 
          
          I don’t know if selkies are different from other mythological creatures, but as my story is a fantasy, I thought it was okay to make up some things to fit the vision I had for my story, but now I feel awful about it because of what my friend said and feel like I need to completely rewrite the story. 
          
          So, like, what do I do? I shared the story because I was proud of it, but now just I feel bad about it.

Y'know, you're underrated