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@justwriteit I totally agree lol. This last chapter that I recently published in 'The Unseen', I've been trying to complete it for the past two weeks! And it wasn't even funny! I mean, the chapter wasn't a filler or anything.. it was a very important part of the plot! Yet anytime I try writing another sentence I stare at the screen then be like, "Nope, can't do it. Another time." 
            
            And truthfully, I'm planning to write another chapter today from another character's POV and I guess.. yeah, I should prolly start with his perspective on a previous scene. That would be.. easier to swallow I think?

@justwriteit  Oh god, I know that problem...I sometimes wish I could write one complete book in one sitting - it is so hard to get into that same mood the next day...but I love making pinterest boards for OCs and stories because it helps a bit.

@ justwriteit  I know this too well haha
            I had to pause my fanfiction, because I deleted my entire fourth book in a fit of a rage and disappointment at my own words. Now I wonder of I could have just rewritten some chapters.
            Oh well, sh*t happens‍♀️

@justwriteit awesome, thanks!

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@Romizabooks1 you should receive it soon. Keep a look out. Happy writing!

@justwriteit 
            If possible could you kindly send to my current (new) account.

@Romizabooks1 It might have been sent to your old account if that is the one you entered with. Let us confirm and we will get back to you. Thank you for your patience. Happy writing!

@ariana_monet Hello! You can join these challenges at any point in the month, so if you want to hop in on July's, you can. You can also enter with just about any ongoing work (see the guidelines for specifics), so using a different story for this one should be fine!

@RCWriting ​I can completely understand why you couldn't write for that long. When I first started, I thought my story would be a massive hit, but when the views didn't come, I quit writing for months over something so minor. Yet, the story just wouldn't leave my mind. Eventually, I got immense motivation from two amazing, experienced people—one whose books get great views, and the other is actually a university professor in the USA and a Wattpad Ambassador! They both said they loved my writing style.
            
            ​Because of their encouragement and winning a drabble contest, I didn't just restart that story, but I ended up writing in other genres and categories too! (Look at me, just praising myself now, haha).
            
            ​But my point is, to be motivated to write again after such a massive setback is something only a truly strong person who has absolute faith in their stories can do. Salute to you!
            
            ​On a practical note, I write on Google Docs. Even if the app suddenly closes while you're writing, everything stays saved exactly where you left off. I also use the microphone on the Google keyboard to speak and type. Along with keeping duplicates, you can try this out too!

@CreatorCat1 noted. Be advised that we have a system to screen when chapters are written or updated. You need not worry about it. As long as you wrote a single new line in June, it counts. You might not reach a milestone, but you showed up. That matters. The challenge is aimed to encourage writers to write regularly. It's not a contest. So, keep writing. Every new word is a win.

@justwriteit I used to write in the Notes app, but I stopped after it completely deleted an entire Note at random. Now I write with Pages, and that has been much more secure; the only problem I've ever had with it is that I was writing so fast that it couldn't keep up and sometimes had trouble syncing, so it would make duplicates and make me figure out which one was the more recent one so I could keep it. It hasn't done that in a while, though, which is good. 
            
            As for the being on the floor part - yes. The stick had been working perfectly fine just the night before, but when I plugged it into my old laptop that morning - absolutely nothing. It felt like a physical piece of me had been ripped out when my much more tech-savvy father said it had wiped itself. Ten years of creativity and effort and dreams, erased in an instant. We got a data recovery software to try and pick through my laptop for any digital footprints it may have left, but what it did recover, it had either scrambled it so it was all gobbledygook, or it had converted it to a completely different file format that I couldn't open. I'm very glad that I had sent so much stuff to myself from my phone, and taken so many photos of my laptop screen, and sent spare drafts from my schoolwork to people I know, or else I really would have had genuinely nothing to work with. I had (with no exaggeration) literally thousands of documents, Word Docs and Notepads, on that USB; that I had anything at all left to scavenge and recover from my emails and pictures is a miracle that I'm beyond thankful for. 
            
            Every time I've changed my phone, I kept my number just for that reason. I was also able to transfer my SIM card from one to the other once because they were compatible. If I have anything to say about it, I'm never losing all of my stuff like that again.

@RCWriting Sending data to yourself and others via email was such a wise thing to do. And yes, the hope that you might recover it somehow always lingers—that’s just how hope works. When you mentioned 'there's a reason I write this stuff down,' I guess that reason is to make sure a good idea doesn't slip your mind later.
            Also, when you mentioned finding yourself on the floor, it honestly broke my heart. I can’t even begin to imagine how crushing that moment must have been for you. To see a decade's worth of your soul and hard work vanish in an instant... it’s completely understandable why you felt destroyed. It takes an incredible amount of emotional strength to even look at a blank page after going through something that traumatic.
            Reading about your experience actually reminded me of something—I’ve been noting down ideas on WhatsApp (sending them to myself) for the past year or so. But since I started my new job in October, I completely forgot about all of that. After reading your story about losing your data, I went back to check, and now none of that data is showing up because I changed my phone and my old number is deactivated too. Ugh, I had noted down so many ideas there! (Phew)

@justwriteit I started really getting back into writing when my Creative Writing teachers - both in high school and college - said they loved what I was turning in. My high school teacher actually told me she was looking forward to the next one, and started grading my work herself instead of having the assistant do it (I now have her email as well). My college teacher followed that up by telling me she wished she could write fantasy (she writes nonfiction). It was because of them that I found my step in writing again, and I realized that if I wanted to get anywhere in writing, I needed to get feedback from someone other than myself (to quote my high school teacher again, I am my "own harshest critic"). They are part of why I decided to keep going after I lost all of my work; the project I'd been working on at the time was one of the first in a very long time that I'd had any hope for, and I wasn't going to just let it rot and fade because the foundation had been ripped from under it, dang it!
            
            I didn't come to Wattpad expecting big views right off the bat. I have no social media platform to promote on, and honestly, I'm just happy to see the word count on my many, many drafts go up; the "published" label under some of my work is what really drives it home. That alone tells me I'm making progress, and I am over the moon just from that knowledge. I don't mind waiting for views; if people find me in their own time and think I'm doing good work, then that's how it'll go. I'd rather that than try and shove my stories at them. Just the process of successfully creating something that's mine is helping me keep going!