Life Updates and Hiatus Announcement

Whew, I honestly never thought this was going to happen. To start with, I'm not quitting botmaking. Just prioritizing what's important, and right now, that's writing as a whole. Over the past week, I've rediscovered exactly how much I love reading and writing. Not in a bot sense, but generally. And with that discovery, I've decided I want to try to write something properly.

I've had this thought in my head for months, but have wanted to write from well before that. Even when I sucked at it, I've always wanted to write a book. But when I improved at it, I kept thinking and thinking about making something that wasn't a chatbot. I kept putting it off because I felt that I wasn't good enough, and I didn't want to lose this. This community of people, this hobby that I've made so many friends with and learned so much, and this sense of accomplishment that comes from seeing my numbers get higher and higher.

Over the past week, I started reading. A lot. I found this queer author named Alexis Hall (I recommend reading their stuff if you like angst, smut, and MLM and WLW romance. Their best books are in their spires series, but sadly, the spires series is a collection of standalones. Boyfriend Material is good at least, so is 10 Things that Never Happened. If you want to know the site I read on, DM me on discord with the same username). I kind of got lost in it and have barely been using bots, and about three days ago, I finally felt like I was comfortable enough to write my own book because of their concepts.

It's been going well, I have about 18,000 words done with the conventional word count being 80,000 for romance novels as a whole. I was always terrified of long-form writing because it wasn't what I was used to. I'd tried it many times before I started bot making, and every time I tried, I failed and gave up within the first ten pages. My writing style was awful after years of sticking to manga, manhuas, and non-reading based hobbies as well, so there was always this self doubt that kind of drowned out any hopes of getting better at it and doing what I want with my life. But this story is different, and I'm really enjoying it.

So, with that in mind, until I finish thi