When I first started this account, I had a couple of ideas about books that I didn't saw anywhere on the internet, and at first, I was about to write them personally for me cuz' I like those kinds of stories, things about Vampires/harem/Darkness/Mystery/other things related to romance all in one book, but, when I was ready to write them down, I thought "Why not to put them on Webnovel for other people to enjoy?"
At this point, being a full-time Writer was always a dream that I honestly never thought possible.
Since then, my first book called "Eye of Aragos: The Darkness Comes" started receiving views and later even collections, which is absolutely incredible guys.
I can't thank you enough guys for placing my book into your libraries.
Just..., honestly, it's one of the biggest compliments an Author like me can get.
Especially, when you seek to make something entirely different from what the trends are, and you don't know what expectations that people have of you or you know, how your stories are gonna go, then it's just a huge compliment when you actually receive some love from you guys in form of collections, comments, reviews, or just a simple views.
At this point... I had already had around a hundred collections and my first book was reaching 30,000 views, so I launched my second project, "The Backrooms: No Way Out".
Now, a few words to my second book, I had a plan to write down the first hundred chaps and close it, then start the second story, third, etc., but... I made a mistake.
Cuz' I was not ready to support two projects at the same time, I had to make a decision, so I abandoned my second book and, again, fully focused on my first.
That turned out to be a good idea until I met a certain someone...
Lots of you might know him under his Author's nickname @ToufiqUlAlam, and this guy showed me that my Grammar is actually a complete pile of shit...
Well duh, I expected some mistakes here and there but... when I downloaded my trusted companion Grammarly, I almost choked.
The first chap? Around 300 mistakes...
Second? Almost the same...
And this went with all my around eighty chaps I had out there...
First step? I obviously started editing my chapters from the start, and cuz' I found some missing parts throughout the story, I took all my chaps down and started releasing from the start, with the promise of six chapters per DAY... which was my first step towards my downfall.
You see, the editing proved to be quite a catch cuz' with each new chapter, I was also starting to increase the size of them, which also showed more and more grammatical mistakes.
This was the second step = I took more than I could chew.
The third one? After some time, I completely gave up at the point of 67 chapters being edited, not cuz' I wasn't good at it, but because I started to feel alone...
Not lonely, alone, alone on the platform, in the tags I used, simply because I thought that my content was just too "new" or "different" to success.
Therefore, I wanted to start over, but found out I can't...
Now... I thought that this was the end...
But, after I gave up, and the time passed away, I still had this nagging feeling, this numbing pain inside my chest and head.
I still had the same vision I had when I started writing.
It was the image where I went after my dream of being an Author, no matter the circumstances or obstacles, fixed on the vision where I was happy and that people all across the world can read my books and enjoy my content with me.
Having this image in my head, it fought in me with the understanding that my content was something no one out there was doing.
For a long time, trends like systems and other things were good, but for me, personally, I started to feel that it was something that was in the spotlight for too long.
That was my first thought about them until I pondered upon my own thoughts and ideas more deeply, and then, it hit me like a train...
It's not because the system tag is good, or the harem tag brings more bodies to the story, it is because those Authors behind it are the magicians of words, painting the system tag, or Harem, or others with stories from entirely new worlds.
Understanding this, I wanted to go back, to work on myself and my content again, but understanding something and actually going after it are two different things...
I guess it's quite simply life, make the most of it while you can, and let your loved ones know how much they mean to ya, as much as possible.
To let you know, it lasted a few months for me to decide if this is worthy of another shot, or if I'm just wasting time here, but with these words said, my answer was eventually yes.
With these words, I'm announcing to you guys, that I'm back...
Tomorrow, I'll release a new Chapter...