I again have so much to catch up on. I’m pretty sure I have missed out on replying so many messages. Please bear with me new and old readers 🙏 I’m drowning in work and notifications.
just a couple of things here that I noticed and want to mention - let us not get personal over here. Subtle language or otherwise. I see all of you are passionate individuals with their own POVs and I’m beyond glad you guys are indulging in my writing. As I said, I won’t defend my characters unless I feel the absolute need to. I’m happy you guys are doing that on my behalf.
And yes, at times I do urge you guys to go back to the chapters once or twice and read up on certain parts even if not the whole things because I do feel it gets cumbersome for me to write in detail what I believe I already explained in the chapter. I am completely okay with any of you not being onboard with the direction of the story, but I feel very awkward in stating that. I hope you guys can understand 🙈
besides, I have said time and again. Beauty of fiction or any art form, is getting to choose what we take from it personally. It’s a rather lovely place we have built here over last three months to have people vent about even their personal lives. All that is welcomed here. Always. All different POVs.
And I do mean all. And you have seen me do that. I have jumped in the defence of my Khushi as much as I have jumped in the defence of Arnav. But I won’t go on to say both of them are perfect in any way. I have maintained my stand. They’re flawed and they’ve made mistakes. Else, we won’t have a story to read.
I’ve grinned like an idiot when you guys pen down lengthy comments trying to understand either of these two characters who are so dear to me or write down paragraphs after paragraphs of what the story has made you feel. At times, you guys have pointed out details which even I missed articulating properly even though subconsciously my characters had that trait. Examples are pointing out that Arnav doesn’t deal with losses and is always trying to make himself useful because that’s what he has always done, Khushi always putting others first even in extreme situations because that’s how she was raised. I love all this.
This has been a pet peeve of mine. to have everyone’s approval over everything. I have written FFs in past and I have been guilty of tweaking the story to suit every reader’s need. I kind of want to push myself and don’t want to do that plot wise.
And I have been extremely lucky because every single one of you, regardless of your stance, have showed faith in how I’m dealing with the story. Thanks a lot ♥️
But your feedback matters. A lot. Because I do tweak my writing accordingly. I explain more when I look back at previous chapters and realise what confused readers. It helps me tremendously.
I think I wrote a rather lengthy rant about how FF writers often incorporate the feedback to change the whole story line and this is one of the best thing about this format. But I can’t do that here. The end, including the whole plot is already in place that allowed me to go back and forth with a relative ease. I don’t think I would have done it otherwise. I still think I will not be able to tie all the loose ends.
And biggest of all, I’m chilling over here because I have already accepted that not everyone’s going to like the end and that’s okay. It’s a liberating thought especially when I think I will most likely run away before epilogue. I’ll say it again. My only goal is to make sure you guys think the time you spent here was worth it ♥️
happy reading guys. I get you all because I’m selfish. At the end of the day whatever your POV is, I’m happy because it is what it is for a story I wrote. I’m just basking shamelessly in all the love 😂😂😘😘😘😘
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