Norwood515

This is probably the wrong audience to ask this of - if you wanted to read my book for free you would have read it while it was posted here - but…
          
          I’m recruiting for ARC readers ahead of officially publishing Jude’s story for real. I’d be honoured if any of my Wattpad followers wanted to be part of the team!
          
          Sign up here:
          https://forms.gle/wwVAgwnvi3NFAaj49
          

Another chapter of Jude’s alternative ending is up. Just a short one today and linked with one of my favourite songs from the nineties, ‘Disco 2000’, back when lyrics about meeting up in the year 2000 seemed like a lifetime away.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1431259739?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_writing&wp_page=create_on_publish&wp_uname=Norwood515

Congratulations and well done for sticking to your story and self- publishing! I wish you the best of luck! 

Long post coming up…
          
          I’ve been writing fiction for as long as I can remember. I must have written hundreds of stories since my very first one back in 1986 when I was four years old.
          
          But it wasn’t until 2018 that I first shared anything I’d written. For some reason, I chose Wattpad as the place to share it.
          
          I posted ‘The Reason I Exist’, which reached 20k reads before I took it down and replaced it with a reworked version, ‘The Reason Jude Exists’.
          
          Today I’m also taking that down (If anyone is in the middle of reading it, sorry. Let me know).
          
          Why take it down? 
          
          Because it is being published! 
          
          I never thought after so many years of writing for fun that I would ever publish something. But for some reason this particular story has stuck with me - I’ve not been able to get it out of my head since I originally wrote it six years ago.
          
          I found an agent and a publisher but… they wanted me to change one fundamental thing about the story to make it more marketable. (For those who have read either of the versions, you can probably guess what the change was). That was a dealbreaker for me. I don’t care about it being marketable. I care about the story I wrote.
          
          So I’ve decided to self publish it - I’d mentally gone too far down the publishing road to turn back. And after immersing myself in the indie publishing world I realised how exciting it is. I love being in control in all aspects of my life, and I’ll be able to control every single thing in relation to publishing this story. 
          
          Will anyone ever buy it given it isn’t marketable? Probably not. 
          
          Thank you to anyone who is still around who supported me since Jude and I made our debuts in the online writing world. If you want to keep up with  my journey towards getting this story published, you can follow me on Threads: 
          https://www.threads.net/@amorgan.author

Too many great nineties songs, too few chapters to match them to!
          
          Jude is forced to give Amy the only explanation that makes sense as to what he’s doing in 1997.
          https://www.wattpad.com/1427680267?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=postToProfile&utm_content=share_reading&wp_page=reading_part_end&wp_uname=Norwood515

Jude and Amy finally meet in the nineties. But 1997 Amy already knows 2021 Jude, which is impossible, no?
          
          Accompanied by the aptly titled ‘Creep’ by Radiohead.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1426759339?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_writing&wp_page=create_on_publish&wp_uname=Norwood515

This chapter goes into some infertility stuff. It’s a bit sledgehammer-ish because, well, it’s Jude talking about it.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1425566608?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_writing&wp_page=create_on_publish&wp_uname=Norwood515

Just a short chapter today:
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1425183503?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_writing&wp_page=create_on_publish&wp_uname=Norwood515

Jude has to navigate sending emails in the mid-nineties before taking his teenage ex-wife on a night out. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1259549181?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_writing&wp_page=create_writer&wp_uname=Norwood515

If the answer is yes to any of the following extremely specific questions, then I might just have a story for you:
          
          - Want to read a time travel story?
          - Want to read a story set in the nineties with a nineties music playlist?
          - Want to read a story that is (finally!) finished offline so will have regular updates with no abandonment partway through?
          - Like correcting writers on their incorrect use of commas?
          - Read ‘The Reason Jude Exists’ and want to know the real reason why Amy kept sticking with Jude?
          
          Here you go:
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1221526625?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_writing&wp_page=create_on_publish&wp_uname=Norwood515