i have been on wattpad for ten years. an entire DECADE. since i was 15 years old and ive never experienced harassment like this. and what is particularly sad for me is the character and story im receiving these threats over. being told im going to be killed, that my grandma needs to watch out (mind you, both my grandmas have been dead for years) threatening my friends, my family. over fiction???
let me tell you guys a story. the reason i started writing in the first place.
when i accidentally stumbled upon vampire diaries for the first time (scrolling through TV looking for something to watch) i was all in. while watching i started to think to myself “i wonder what this show would be like if Stefan and Damon had a sister.” so I wrote it, and Skyler was born.
Skyler Salvatore is my first OC, basically my first child. She started ALL of this for me. I never expected her story to get as popular as it is. I never expected my writing to get as popular as it did. Ages 15-16 were really hard for me. I was depressed af, suicidal, and numb to everything. the only thing that made me feel normal, that made me feel better was writing Skyler’s story. She pulled me through one of the darkest points of my life.
All of my OC’s end up with their endgames, even if they go through hell and back to get there. I have rewritten Skyler’s story endless times to give her the ending that she deserves (and then the show just had to kill Klaus… spoiler), I love all my readers and I love that you guys love Skyler. But trust me, nobody loves her more than me. Creating her saved me from myself. I know my story, I know my character, and if anybody take issues with anything that I write, you’re free to not read.
I write for myself, I choose to share it in the hopes that you guys will love my OC’s the way I do, but if you don’t, that’s okay. these are just my thoughts. if you read all this, thank you, if you didn’t… that’s okay too.
