ni19534

Posted the next part of 'Breaking Free' after a long time.

Theconfusedsoul-

Hi Nia! Hope you're doing well! How's life? 
          Also, I was reading Saving Him again...any chances of it getting update any time soon?

Theconfusedsoul-

@ni19534 Yes earlier bhi thi arranged marriage stories par sirf wahi nahi thi ab toh it's very difficult to find anything except that. 
            And, AI ka use toh kafi badh gaya hai. It's so sick to see real craft of writing dying on wattpad. Bure grammar ke saath story padh lungi mai par AI? Never. Reading AI story accidentally also feels like a crime.
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ni19534

@Theconfusedsoul- Honestly, I can't sewm to wrap my head around whatever's happening on wattpad. And doesn't help that I had been inactive on this platform for quite sometime so not much idea about this entire drama.
            
            Yeah. Arranged marriage & toxic, problematic stories have been around wattpad for quite sometime guess. But now what I'm seeing is a lot of AI generated stories. And honestly, this feels unfair to all the writers out there who are writing by themselves. There's a certain style in AI generated sentences and it's very easy to pick that up.
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Theconfusedsoul-

@ni19534 Haina? Wattpad ka koi bharosa nahi and also the stories these days are always about arranged marriage. Authors ke work delete ho rahe hai, problematic stories hai and the hate and fight among the readers. Kafi kuch drama chalta rehta hai idhar...pehle hi sahi tha Wattpad.
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ni19534

Hello everyone! I know I've been MIA for a long time. But that's because there has been a lot going on in my life - both personal and professional. The past one year or so has been nothing but a roller coster for me. I've seen so much in this 1 year - both bad and good - something I didn't experience in all my previous years combined. Honestly, I don't even know how I survived all that without losing my mental balance. But I guess at the end of the day, all's well that ends well. I have no regrets at all. I've taken all that as a learning lesson. 
          
          I know my stories are on hold. I'll try to get back to them by 2nd week of next month.

ni19534

@worldofshootingstar Haan doctor toh ban gayi hoon. Par uski khushi bhi pheeki pad gayi because of all the other stupid things happening in my life.
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worldofshootingstar

@ni19534 Exactly still that thought of 'why me' lingers for a long time. But then again we need to be thankful that somewhere zindagi jeene de rahi hai aur hum jee rahe hai. 
            Thank you Nia for your kind words.
            
            
            Btw, seriousness apart for a moment. 
            Ab toh Dr Nia sahi tarah se ban gaye hoge!! >▪︎<
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ni19534

@worldofshootingstar Yeah. Somewhere deep down we all know that life is unpredictable and doesn't need to go according to our plans, but still it hurts a lot when it happens that way.
            Even my mom kept telling me the same thing when I was going through a hard phase that God had something better planned for me. 
            Now that I'm out of that difficult phase of my life, I can see good things gradually approaching me. As much as I'm glad about it, a part of me still cannot understand why I had to go through that hard phase in the first place. It's just a little thought lingering somewhere within me. 
            
            Nevertheless, I just hope and pray that you're also able to pass this phase soon like me, and that you get peace and clarity in your life.
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shadowedlotus

Hey there!
          Totally sorry if this is out of the blue—I don’t know if you’re accepting reading requests right now, but I’d love it if you gave my book a chance. 
          
          If you enjoy it (even a little!), feel free to drop a like—and don’t hold back in the comments. Your thoughts and opinions truly matter, and I’d love to hear them! ✨
          
          Thank you so much for your time, and sorry for barging in like a surprise plot twist. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/406323436?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_writing&wp_page=create&wp_uname=shadowedlotus

ni19534

Food for thought
          
          1. Why do most love stories written end up with kids? Is having kids absolutely necessary & considered the ultimate sign of a fulfilling marriage? What about couples who are childless either by choice or due to health/fertility issues? Will their marriage not be considered successful?
          There's nothing romantic about babies. They are a very big responsibility. 
          
          2. While there are many stories showing a woman marrying a man with a child, but why are there so few stories with the roles reversed? Even if there are, they'll finally reveal that the child wasn't even the female lead's biological child! Why? Just to portray the woman as a virgin? 
          
          3. Why is abortion considered a crime? Even now, abortion is portrayed as something only done by the villainous, vile, immoral, heartless women. Our government had passed the MTP act way back in 1970's. Something that I applaud them for. 
          Also legally, an adult woman doesn't need her husband's 'permission' to get an abortion done. That's what the MTP act states. 
          
          Abortion is so vilified that even women with complicated pregnancies are shown to not opt for abortion. Even when their own lives are at stake. What even?
          
          4. Infertility issues are treated like a joke in fiction. No doctor can say that 'a woman has only 7% chance of getting pregnant'. And guess what, even with that 7% chance, the woman gets pregnant in the first attempt itself. Even healthy couples often don't conceive in the 1st attempt itself. [Y'all know which show I'm talking about]. Couples with infertility issues take 1-2 years on a minimum scale to get pregnant. And sometimes longer than that too. What are writers even thinking? 
          
          All these points I've spoken about, hold true not only for onscreen shows/films, but also for a lot of stories here on wattpad.

ni19534

@autumnesque I remember reading your IMM2 FF on Tellyupdates and loving it for choosing such an unconventional theme. I've nothing against people who want children (even I'd like to have one), but it's far too romanticized in our society. There are a far too many people who realize they have a lot of flaws within them, and don't want to see them in their children. Or others who think they are too irresponsible to take care of a child. Which is better than spoiling an innocent child's life.
            
            Bingo. I had seen exactly 2 shows on ITV where initially it was portrayed that the FL has a child from previous marriage/relationship. And then they even went ahead and showed the ML taking the child's permission before proposing to the FL, which ngl, I found really cute. But then the makers took a 180° turn later on by revealing that the child wasn't even the FL's own biological child and also that the FL had no illicit relation before and she was as pavitra as the Ganga river. I was like wth.
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ni19534

@_MysticLove_ Thank you. It's good to know that I'm not the only one having these thoughts.
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autumnesque

@ni19534 gahh, these were all points that I remember being so upset about when I wrote the IMMJ fics and hence why both the fics address one or the other of these points—one with the marriage ending with kids and the other with them leaving separately. I wish people took into account how real life in urban settings really operate before writing things, but unfortunately, that never happens.
            
            Also, the trope with a woman usually never having a child of her own? I recently read a story where I was happy, for a change, that a woman had a child of her own too. But towards the end, the kid just happened to not be hers, it broke my heart because it made little to zero sense and there was absolutely no reason to put that message forth in a book otherwise written so well.
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