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hey i know it's been a long time but are you going to coninue the stranger things story

Hi all. It's been a while. Life has been busy - I'm actually halfway (55k) through writing my debut novel! Obviously, this has been taking up the entirety of my time, but I am planning on getting back to Phone Swap once the first draft of my novel is completed. 
          
          It may take 5 years, and it may have been a rough ride, but I promise you: Phone Swap *will* be finished.
          
          Hope you're all well x

hey boo! it's been sooo long, idk if u remember me but i'm tony -- i was writing dis book called the shattered me (it's so bad but it's still up lmaooo) and i remember i wrote your character 'tara' into the book as well as a lil collab! i remember we were cool lil friends so i wanted to pop by and say heyyyy!

hi angel has ubiquitous been deleted? i plan to start your celeb trilogy!! xx

I've lost most of my motivation for Phone Swap. Life's picking up again, I'm doing another course and applying for jobs, and PS is the unfortunate collateral damage. I'll try to pick it back up again in March, but I'd rather not make any promises. Hope you're all well, and happy leap day x

New Phone Swap chapter came out yesterday! It's a bit of a filler, but also the last chapter I have edited, so back to the drawing board it is...

I know I'm almost a year late to this, but it's devastating that the Wattys now exclude fanfiction from submission categories. I've been on Wattpad since 2013 and it's a website that has always been synonymous with ( however unfortunately, mostly bad) fanfiction. Instead of completely getting rid of the category, they could have adapted the competition to include it while respecting intellectual property copyright by simply not including a monetary prize for this category. The argument that fanfiction demands less work and effort than original fiction has never been a valid argument, not for the genre as a whole. Not to mention that publishing original work on Wattpad can actually be detrimental if you decide to publish traditionally, even with a different piece of work. 
          
          Wattpad needs to remember what it was built on, or get rid of fanfiction entirely. But dignity and consistency is hard to expect from a company that has been going downhill for a decade.

i need to get back into phone swap

Apologies for Saturday's lack of update. I've been ill since Christmas and back to work so Phone Swap slipped my mind, which is a tragedy, because the next chapter is a New Year's one. That said, it will be updated on the 5th!
          
          Merry Christmas to those  who celebrate, happy holidays to those who don't, and happy New Year to all! May 2024 be kinder than 2023.

Nothing hurts more than knowing that I fully intended to continue Art's story as well as Emily's and Addie's (past phone swap) and knowing that I most likely won't get to, not in the way I wanted to