What's up With WriteIsLife?

Hey everyone!

Ive been gone for a few weeks, haven't I? Pretty unusual for me, someone even messaged me asking if I was okay. For anyone that was wondering I'm okay. I've just been taking a break from this site. But I'm back, and for pretty selfish reasons too.

I'll be real with you guys that followed the link I put in all of my stories. I was seriously considering leaving this site. I arranged a collab and that was going to be my way of saying goodbye. My reasons for leaving were pretty good reasons I think. I'll sum it up because I'm bound to get messaged and asked - I disliked what the site was turning into. I joined way back last year where the generation on this site were totally different. Now I made some pretty rad friends, they've all flown the nest and are way to busy to waste time on here. I feel like this site has got an entirely different age group now. Everyone's pretty young. I've briefly spoken about this but here goes...

I thought no one liked my stories. I got hardly any feedback and I was used to getting 10 comments a day. I felt like what I was writing wasn't good enough and wasn't satisfying the new wave of readers on the site. I didn't feel like I was a popular author at all. Going from 12 comments in 24 hours to getting 2 is kinda disheartening. I felt like all anyone wanted to read was stuff I couldn't write. That's why I haven't been replying to comments or writing.

But on the flip side I have some people who read my stories and comment and love what I write. So I sat down and thought it over. I also saw that one of my old stories was still front popular page. When I first started a story did I do it for comments? No way. I did it because I had this crazy idea of what if a woman goes on tour with Pierce the Veil to do a bucket list. I put it up because I felt like it. But suddenly I got all these subscribers that I'm grateful for. But when a story ended I had to write another and another and another and I was scared people would hate them. I felt pressured which is totally crazy.

Writing on this site has gotten me through some pretty tough times. Part of me is returning because there's people on here who need me and I've made a lot of promises to people. But there's a larger part who selfishly needs those reads to get me through some pretty heavy stuff that's going down in my life right now. If you want to know by all means message me, but I'm not going to say here and get accused of being an attention seeker. If you've been following my writing for a long time you'll know that's the last thing I want.

I don't know how much sense this made to everyone, but in short I disappeared because I ended up writing for the wrong reasons. I seriously considered leaving. I'm back with new stories but this time I'm writing for the right reasons. I hope you all forgive me and I love you.

Any questions please ask, I don't think I even made sense of this.

Kelci xoxo

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