So… it’s been a year huh.

Shit time flies.

Last year on this day (well, it was technically Friday and not Saturday but you get the point), while smoking a cig and reading a badly translated Japanese webnovel (no, I won’t say its name) I thought, “hey, I can do this too.” I went to my pc and put down a chapter, a couple of hours later it was up on RRL, which I actually only discovered the day before. The coincidences of life, right?

That night I just went out with some friends drinking, thinking no one would have actually enjoyed that first, short chapter and that I would have probably stopped there. I was pretty surprised when, returning home, I found a couple of comments, a few ratings and a few dozen followers accompanying that first, badly written chapter.

So I posted another chapter on Saturday and a third one on Sunday. At the end of the weekend I had some forty followers, so I decided that, after all, I could have actually continued and continue I did.

I still wasn’t sure how much I would have gone on with this, every week there was a drop it/continue conflict in my head, then I looked at my follower count and continue always ended up winning until one day I decided that yes, I was going to finish this shit, even if it were to take me 10 years (fuck I hope not) and took the WriTEr’s pledge.

Slowly I improved, to the point that looking back at my old chapters makes me cringe. Slowly, I started to see the flaws in my writing. I’m still far from what I’m aiming at with my writing, but I can honestly say that in the last year I became a better writer and maybe even a better reader.

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Months passed by, my schedule went to fuck itself between writer’s block moments, university and the random writing spree that forwarded the story a bit more. And yet, just like the day I took the pledge, I still think, I’m still convinced, a year since I started writing, that I will finish this.

Not only do I want to finish this but I have a fuckton of ideas for other stories too, some of which I already wrote the first chapter of, some others that are only a concept in my mind, waiting to be typed.

So… Why this useless wall of text when you were probably hoping for a chapter?

To thank you, the people who read my fiction, the people who follow it, the people who put it in their favourites, the people who rated it, even those who bashed against it, the people who comment on it, my patrons (only one for the moment, love you Vorquel... no homo), and the staff of RRL who made all of this possible.

I know a lot of content creators of any kind online thank their followers and at this point all of this might seem like an empty lie but it’s not. If it wasn’t for you I really wouldn’t be here right now, I would have dropped this months ago, I would never have tried to become a better writer, I would have never become a mod of the awesome group that is WriTE (I love you fuckers too, in case any of you is reading this), I would have never had the possibility to talk to some awesome people who are part of the community of this site, get mad at a few of them or troll some others.

Thank you for reading.

I’ll try to bring you two chapters today so, as always, enjoy!