Okay. I think I'm done.
I've thought about this for the past 23 days, and I've decided that Surkhi is ending here.
I'm genuinely grateful to everyone who has voted, commented, waited for updates, recommended my book, or told me that you love the story. I really am.
Some of you meant more to me than you know.
But I'm also not going to lie and pretend I wasn't deeply disappointed.
I was updating this book almost every day, writing 6k–7k+ word chapters while juggling college, my professional course, studies, family, friends, sleep and an actual life.
Surkhi isn't something I can casually throw together in an hour. It has multiple plots, character arcs, continuity, foreshadowing and things planned chapters ahead.
And after all that, watching the votes barely move while dozens of people read every chapter eventually became exhausting.
And yes, I'm bitter.
Because apparently I picked the wrong way to write on Wattpad.
I spent months worrying about character development, motivations and whether the plot actually made sense, while books consisting of misunderstandings, obsessive exes, random scandals and romance for the sake of romance are getting showered with views and votes.
Apparently you don't need to make your characters make sense.
You just need to give readers a new piece of drama every five minutes and demand votes like your rent depends on it. Good to know.
I have watched stories with writing skills that would make a particularly confident monkey look like Shakespeare receive mountains of views, votes and applause while I was sitting there agonizing over whether a character's reaction in Chapter 11 was consistent with something they said in Chapter 4.
It's great, it's really great.
So with this, I'm ending Surkhi here, without any further updates in the future.
Thank you to the people who genuinely loved this story.
To everyone else — I hope you find the kind of books you enjoy.
Apparently, I was writing for the wrong audience.
Goodbye.
