SASHAO

Do u use Neobook as a publishing outlet?

@LuvArora25 Thank you!

@sandydragon1 Thank you!

Sorry for the super long hiatus to those of you who are my reading and critique buddies. As you may know, I'm a minister, and I've been in the process of preparing to leave my current church, where I serve as an assistant minister, to become a senior minister at another church for the first time in my career. Ministerial search in my faith tradition is a very long and intense process--think 95-hour work weeks--and it ate up every scrap of spare time for the last several months. But the long wait is finally drawing to a close, as I just accepted an offer today to become the minister of a wonderful church starting in August (provided that the full congregation votes to call me during my upcoming visit in late April!) So I will now have more time to both write and to FINALLY catch up on some reading! I see that several of you have new-to-me works that I'm super excited to check out. So, I'll see you on your pages real soon, and in the meantime, happy writing!
          
          Also, I'm close to posting a new chapter in Garden of Night. I just need it to, yanno, end...

FINREDDDDDDD WHErE'D U GO

Thanks for the follow!

Yup, withdrawing from clubs was the right move, for all that I loved my partners' books. I've now drafted a new chapter for the first time in forever and caught up on r4r reading through yesterday. (At least, I think I have. If I'm wrong and you are in fact currently waiting on me to read, please give me a kick.)

Hi all, a heads up that I'm going to be cleaning up my "following" list here soon to only include people I have been interacting with regularly. If I unfollow you, please understand that it is nothing against you personally. It is just that I now get so many updates from folks I'm no longer in relationship with that I'm starting to overlook cool posts by the people with whom I'm still in some way connected.

As some of you know, I broke my spine figure skating 5 months ago. I’m happy to say that I’m back on the ice now, but my return to skating requires some changes in how I use my time on Wattpad.
          
          I love this community, but I also have to be realistic and be a good steward of my time and energy. There are a ton of things I enjoy, including writing, and for a while I cut back on other things that I love in order to try to seek success on Wattpad. But my books don't really have an audience on here, and I've already invested all of the energy I'm able. So it's time for me to let go of the hope that I can be successful here and focus on other things I love.
          
          So what does this mean for you? First, please be aware that I WILL be continuing with r4r. I enjoy reading your awesomr books. You can expect me to be more active in r4r once I free up some time from other Wattpad activities. 
          
          But to free up that time, I'll be quitting book clubs... Clubs are a great way to discover new books and get feedback, but they also require a lot of time. 
          
          Finally, I'm considering putting the third book of my series on hold, maybe indefinitely. As a sequel, it has even fewer readers than my other books, and I'm losing the few I have. I know that we should write for ourselves, but there are far less work-intensive ways than producing novels almost no one reads. I'm hopeful though that when I cut back on clubs, I'll have more interest in it, so for now I'm just shelving it for a bit to see if my motivation to work on it will recover.
          
          Alrighty, that's about it. I'll see you around until August 3rd. After that, I'll start winding down my participation in book clubs as club rounds end. And then once my vacation ends around August 20th, r4r partners may see me MORE, since I will be able to use some of the time freed up by exiting clubs to read your books. But beyond that, you won't see me much because I'll be gliding around in circles at the rink. ⛸️

Hey y'all, the Wattpad Support desk is trying to collect data on a bug and are encouraging people who've experienced it to submit a Support request. 
          
          The bug involves music automatically playing when you open a chapter on someone's book, despite your device's audio settings such as mute. The music may come from a video the person saved in the chapter, except the video footage may not play, just the sound, and it plays automatically rather than with a click. And it bypasses whatever sound settings you have on your device, such as if your phone is muted or you try to turn down the volume. Sometimes, if you finally get it to go away, it will return mid-chapter. 
          
          If you've run into something like that, Support would like to hear about it, as they're compiling data on the bug in preparation for sending it to the developers. You can submit a request here: https://support.wattpad.com/hc/en-us/requests/new