ToriHope-

Thank you to everyone who's been adding Steady Ground to your reading list ♥ It means a lot to know you're interested. I hope you have a wonderful day!

ToriHope-

Hey all! It's been a while ♥ I hope everyone is doing well. Unfortunately I'm still on hiatus. Lots of changes going on (mostly good!). I graduated college (wohoo!) and now I'm on the hopefully-not-endless job search haha. Pretty excited for what the future holds, though it'll be a while yet before I'm ready to return to writing on WP. 
          
          If anyone's reading this, I hope you have a wonderful day! (And make sure to check out the Eliona's War series by @KuroKageJS. It's the only reason why I log into WP nowadays. A wonderful, action-packed series with lots of twists and a very relatable main character. Totally worth a read!)

ToriHope-

@Kaskia_ I guess we haven't shared discords, huh? o.o I'm torihope on Discord if you want to add me! And yeah, I really wish they put in a little effort to keep the DM system, but WP is definitely changing from a free writing community to a profit-focused reading platform. It's sad as someone who used it for the community growing up and through college. Discord's pretty great for communicating though ^^ I'm on there all the time and I'd love to chat there!!
            
            Oh that's wonderful! I'm glad you've been able to get further with Kaskia. You have quite a bit done now! Though I'm sorry to hear that things are getting up and down again. I really do hope things get better/more stable in the upcoming year if not sooner. This winter is going to be a hard one for a lot of people :( so much going on in the world right now. I'm unemployed atm. Been job searching for 3 months now and have only gotten 2 interview offers that didn't work out. It's a little disheartening so I've had a hard time writing despite having more free time than normal.
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Kaskia_

@ToriHope- Yeah, when they did that, I mostly stopped paying much attention to this site. It makes no sense to me why they would remove DM's. If anything, they should have made it where you needed to be friends or something in order to send a DM. I tried looking for you on discord, I thought I had you on there, I couldn't find anything lol
            
            No, not Mystery Inc. I republished it for someone to check out. I've been working on the Kaskia series. I finished the Leaon story and started the next book. I'm a few chapters in so far. Sadly life has been up and down again causing less motivation lol
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ToriHope-

@Kaskia_ Welcome back! It's been a while! And congrats on getting back into writing. I saw you reposted some of Mystery Inc. Is that what you've been working on the most?
            
            It's a little awkward now trying to keep up with everyone on WP ^^' I realize they're trying to control spam/harassment/political stuff by removing DMs, but it kinda made their platform unusable for community and friends in return
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TheTigerWriter

Tori! Did you hear, Wattpad will be deleting the DM system and all the messages? I hope we can keep in touch on Discord :)

TheTigerWriter

@ToriHope- I know right? It's so inconvenient now.
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ToriHope-

@TheTigerWriter So sad the DM system was removed T_T
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ToriHope-

Hey all ♥ I'm a bit late on reading entries for round 4 in the Write to Rank contest. Going to be out of town the next few days, too, but I promise I'll catch up next week if not sooner!

LiamHunt0618

@ToriHope- You are welcome. I see, I think that's kind of you. I wish you an easy time with the work you have to do, and hopefully you'll be able to achieve your goal.
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ToriHope-

@LiamHunt0618 Thank you for understanding! I just got back home to a pile of work to do, but I have a little personal goal to get caught up on reading before the next prompt comes out ♥
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LiamHunt0618

@ ToriHope-  Hey Tori. Thank you for the information. Take care and be well. Hope to see you again soon.
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ToriHope-

Hey all ♥ It's been a while since I've been active! Haven't been writing or reading much, though I can say I took a writing course at my Uni last semester that was all about plotting books using the Save the Cat method. It was actually really fun and enjoyable, and I got another paranormal book about overcoming grief planned and the first 5 pages written! 
          
          Like always, I'm going to wait until I have quite a bit written before I decide if I'm going to post it, though. Sometimes Wattpad just sucks my will to write away lol, so I need to be careful with uploading here. 
          
          If you're curious about it, though, the first 5 pages are going to be published to the Uni's magazine in October-ish, under my real name. I'll share a link once the time comes!
          
          I hope you all have been doing well! Is anyone participating in Write 2 Rank this year? The competition is starting in June, and I'm contemplating doing it to shake the writing-rust off!
          
          Best,
          Tori