🌊🏛Brooke 🫧🪼

I'm going to be honest guys. I'm seriously thinking of taking down Game Sync Life, Dollhouse, and Fairytale. There's just not the readership and interactions anymore to justify stressing myself out over updates. I looked into it and apparently a lot of authors on Wattpad have noticed the same thing. There's a few theories as to why it's happening - the old readers have left and the new ones just don't interact as much, the wattpad algorithm is prioritizing paid stories and brushing the rest under the rug, and that Wattpad is just simply falling from grace. Personally,  I think it's a mixture of that and the fact I haven't been able to be as active as I used to be. And if readers don't interact your story loses momentum. I want to focus heavily on publishing but the pressure I put on myself to post on here often makes me prioritize what little creative energy I have to WP stories instead of paid work. However, the returns aren't adding up and I think it's time I just admit the academy era is dwindling and breaching on nonexistent.  
          
          I'm still deciding on what I want to do. For now I'd still be working on Atlantis and Wanderer, but only those two, if I decided to go through with this. And I'm only hesitating to keep those simply because of the insane amount of work I've put into the two of them.
          
          Idk. It's still something I'm thinking on, but it's definitely on the table. I'm sorry if this upsets some of you. 

This week's writing goal:
          
          - Lilium chapter 14 and 15
          - Last chapter of book 1, Wanderer
          - 1 Dollhouse chapter

This week's goal:
          
          Finish Atlantis chapter and publish (only have two scenes left and they're smallish)
          
          Write one of five scenes for final chapter of book 1, Wanderer
          
          Finish Lilium chapter 14 and 15 for draft (there's 19 chapter plus an Epilogue)
          
          Let's see if this helps hold me accountable lmao
          
          
          
          

Just want to let you guys know that a fellow wattpad author I love and respect just published her book. Her name on here in JJ Rothschild, you can find her in the list of people I follow and it's called Batty. She has the link on  a post there. It's not RH but it's so well written and she does weird romances better than anyone I've ever seen. Go see if you're interested and if you are,  go support her by buying her book on Amazon.  It's only $5. 

I wanted to give you guys an explanation for why I've gone dark. I had to cut out my brother from my life and during this his baby mama not only threatened me but tried claiming false rumors that I was writing pornographic content on here about me sleeping with her and my brother. I know. I gagged. Obviously it was easily disproven, but it was stressful and scary and I slept like shit with one eye open the entire time. Bitch is crazy. 
          
          While I may not have posted anything that would have been seen by you, I've been working hard on outlines and the book series I want to publish very soon. It isn't work you've been able to see but it's still taking some of the work off future projects that'll make update times easier.   Et Lilium I'm aiming to finish the first draft by next month. Then it will go into the Beta process. Which will also take a month. Getting it finalized and the ARC readers in order will take another month.  The goal is to have it ready to go by June to early July.  I'm very excited about Et Lilium. For one reason or another,  this book was hard to get in to and I still believe most people will hate it lol. It's just very different from my usual writing style.  However,  I'm in love with it and that's all that matters to me. Opinions sway, readers come and go,  but in the end it's me who had to walk away proud of what I've done. 

Hope too see new chapters love your stories 

what happened to the fairytale series? is there any plans on continuing it? will it be available here?

Wanderer Chapter 14 is up as of now

Finished the wanderer draft for chapter 14! Whew, that took all freaking day. I'd edit it tonight in a heartbeat if I didn't think that'd ruin the chapter. I speed-wrote this one like Atlantis. (I won't be doing that for Dollhouse, Fairytale, and Game Sync Life still.) So it's a hot mess of about 20k words. The good news is I edited the first 13k before finishing up the chapter. So it'll definitely be up tomorrow!

Over halfway done with the next Wanderer chapter. This one is soooooo HARD to write guys! Once you read it, you'll understand why. There are so many pieces on the board and I've got literal stacks of papers to keep it all straight. Every couple of lines in some sections of this upcoming chapter, I have to review my notes to get it straight and then double-check on Google Maps to make sure I didn't miscalculate. I'll be adding one or two actual maps with visuals on them to help because it's honestly going to be confusing for you guys.