i finally chose to unpublish youth
8.7k reads, 317 votes, and almost 20 comments
i thank you guys for the support on that old cringe story, but i'm tired of it being the only thing that shows up in my notifications
i'm not going to continue the remake of the story because i have no interest in it, i want wattpad to be a place where i can post my original stories and ignore all of the cringe of my past
i'm happy that even to this day people were willing to read my old cringey stories and see where i began as a writer, but those days are over. i don't want to relive my cringe anymore, and i don't want a fanfic that i wrote when i was 12 to be the only thing people know me for.
i thank you all for watching my growth and joining me on my journey to becoming a published author. we all started as cringey writers who didn't know the first thing about structuring a story, and only wanted to relive our fantasies. i lived out my fantasy with youth being the only long fic i've ever completed to date.
i'm not deleting the story, i'm just unpublishing it. i'm preserving this piece of my history, because i want to remember where i came from.
i'm also unpublishing a ruined city, because that story has been getting votes again. i'm not as big on ninjago anymore and i've never had plans to continue or remake that story. it's probably one of the worst fanservice fics that i've ever tried to write, and none of its storyline makes any sense. i won't be deleting it either because i want to be able to remember it as well, but the same reason i'm unpublishing youth applies here too.
a ruined city is being unpublished with 1.5k views, 88 votes, and 57 comments.
thank you all for the memories you've brought me with these stories, if you liked my old cringe writing, i know you'll love the new stories i'm writing. i implore you to read the actually good content that i'm writing now after years of experience. i promise that you won't regret it.