litupworld

Part 3 
          
          LASTLY (IMPORTANT): Trust me, I'm an avid reader too and I know how frustrating it it when a story I love and adore doesn't get any updates for years. I know it's torture. But please, I implore you, don't copy or steal my work or continue it in any form on any website!!! I've spent hours and hours of planning, writing and proofreading on that story, for every single chapter in my spare time, and it's all based on my ideas and head cannons! Taking that away from me, marketing it as your own work is just mean and hollow and inconsiderate. So everything that you see out there that seems like a copy, please report it. There is nobody that I gave approval to continue / add to this story, to repost it anywhere else, to rewrite or translate it. This right here is the original. And big thank you to everyone reporting something in the past during my absence! Your support doesn't go unnoticed 
          
          I really hope you are doing good, and als long as this story still brings joy to people, I am very happy :) sorryy for the long text, you can of course still ask me anything else, whatever you want. 
          
          Hope you have a great day ❤️

Part 2
          
          I am sure I won't update this story anymore, but I'll let it stay on this app as long as I'm comfortable with it, for several reasons:
          
          1. I started this maybe when I was 16?17? I can't quite remember. I'm 21 now and many things have changed, I've become much much more proficient in English (I also study it) , and I have changed as well, since my interest in football and the players has decreased over time (also NEW READERS: please keep that in mind! I was maybe 17 with English as my second language) => I don't really identify with it anymore as much as I used to
          
          2. I still very much enjoy plotting and writing - however, I don't think I'm comfortable with the thought about writing about real people anymore. When I write again, it'll be about fictional people. 
          
          3) I won't edit this story, maybe the beginning is quite rocky, I don't know haven't read it in ages, but since almost every chapter comes close to 10k words, it's just too time-consuming
          
          4. as I said, no matter how I feel towards the story concerning the continuation, why should I take it away from anyone who still enjoys reading it? The story will stay. I just won't update it anymore for the foreseeable future 
          
          5. Will I ever catch up with the comments? Probably not! But I try to read as much as I can and I send love to everyone who writes nice comments :) 
          
          6. As in 1) , my interests have broadened and I read stories in many other fandoms now, so even when consuming FFs, I am not as much into football ffs anymore than I used to be. I also use AO3 mainly now, Wattpad not at all really until today again.
          

Part 1
          
          Hey everyone,
          
          I don't know if users still read those things, it's been ages since I last used this app, but I just wanted to say hello again. Since I still have Wattpad on my phone but never use it, I practically stumbled over it. 
          
          I just wanted to say I am astonished by the never-ending support I receive for my story. I've just seen heart of gold hit 186k - that's 86 thousand more views than when I was last active on this story and it's really blowing my mind that, despite my absence and no updates, people seem to enjoy reading the story still. 
          The amount of likes / favs (?) the comments and the private messages I receive is really touching. And I will never really get used to that  I never knew the story would blow up like this. I remember having 2k views and being shocked that people actually read that. That's just amazing, wow. I'm speechless.
          
          Many probably wonder if everything is okay, and yes, you don't need to worry, I would say I am okay, I am good. I've been through many tough things over the last years, and had to adjust to uni and simply had no time. Whenever I opened the app and saw how many people still like the story, I was motivated and I had further plans for the plot, truly. So whenever I made those announcements in the past, I truly tried to continue the story, the ideas were there. But I struggled to continue with the style I left it off, and so I wasn't able to churn out another chapter. 
          
          And I am truly sorry for getting everyone's hopes up every now and then and sorry for not updating at all and letting you down. And I won't make this mistake again, this won't be an announcement for an update or something.

Hey Hope you are doing well
          Just wanted to check in on you and make sure you’re ok ,since we haven’t had a community tab update from u in a while x

Hey I hope you're doing fine.  Just wanted to let you know I miss the book sm like I need an update

hi, its been na year since the last update… I miss this so much 

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          Hello you all, 
          
          I don't know if you all still remember me, I wouldn't be offender if not lol, and I am so sorry and want to apologize for leaving you and this story hanging for so long without further notice. Thank you for all the messages I've received along the way, I am fine and happy and I'm good, no need to worry about me :) 
          
          The reason for being absent on this app and story for so long is that my presence semesters at uni took more of my time in than I originally thought ; and since football became more and more commercialized and the world cup takes place in a country that doesn't care about human rights, I've slowly lost interest and only kept up with the mere basics in the leagues, therefore my motivation to write a 10k chapter was decreasing, of course. 
          
          In my drafts I still have the halfway written chapter about Marly at the National Team and  I have a hard time letting the writing flow more naturally after such a long time, I just keep deleting and rearranging paragraphs that I don't seem to be happy with and it's kind of frustrating (just so you know I've tried to finish it over the time at some points). However, this chapter was meant to be a fun sort of filler chapter anyway before the next was planned for a dramatic revelation that would be really important to the story. Therefore, I might just finish this chapter if I have the time and motivation, and rather accept that I'm not 100% satisfied with it and rather keep going for the sake of the import and dramatic turns that are about to be revealed in the planned upcoming chapters. So I will try to finish it and will see, although I don't think I can promise anything or don't want you to get your hopes up too much and be disappointed in the end; as I said my writing flow is not that natural anymore. But maybe that'll be fixed and I may upload the chapter at some point,although I don't want to pin down a date or something just to postpone it and disappoint you guys again. 

helo, it’s been a while. Are we having a next chapter? lots of love ❤️

Hi ❤️ hope you are well xx 
          Just wanted to know when will you be back to update heart of gold xxx

will there be an update for heart of gold?