Where have I been??
Dear fellow writers.... wow, it has been such a long time. I can legally drink alcohol and I own my own car now! I hope you've all been well and have continued to have success with your own story writing. I feel as though I owe some sort of apology for where I have been for these past two years. Back in 2017 when I was last on wattpad, I had just finished my GCSEs (I did 12 of them!) and it was, at the time, the most mentally and physically challenged I had felt. I had no time to write due to revising so much, and tried to start things back up again in the summer but had no motivation.
When I started college to do my A Levels (Medieval History, English Literature, Philosophy and an Extended Project) I was even more overwhelmed. I was also working at the time, sometimes up to two jobs, up to 15 hours a day, and I had no time to dedicate to story writing, and even less motivation.
In 2019, things became even worse for me. I almost dropped out of college, I was in hospital for something quite serious, almost lost a job, went through some complicated emotional relationships etc... I don't want to go into it in too much detail and bore you with my long list of prescriptions and blood tests...
Basically, the last few years, while I have grown so much as a person, have been a complete mess, and story writing, which I have been doing literally since I was 5 and could first hold a pen properly, disintegrated away. I even stopped reading books for pleasure, and doing any of my old hobbies as I became so ill.
Due to my awful college attendance and my general lack of interest in education, I didn't get the A Level grades I dreamed of, however I have still secured a place at a university to study History, which deep down is still my passion alongside writing. (I originally was going to take a gap year due to how ill I was.)
(cont on next post)