In case you missed it, the chapter before this is an epilogue! (Anyway, on with the note!)

In June of 2017 I needed to write a chapter for How We Could Have Met 2 so I went to a random line generator and got "You're lucky I'm tired, otherwise I would've pushed you off this roof."

And thus the setting for rooftop stories was set (in case anyone wondered why I chose a roof, it's because the random line generator told me so). I wrote the chapter, I posted it, and that was that.

November 2019, I've decided to do NaNoWriMo (National Write A Novel Month, where you write 1.6k words every day for the month of November so you end up with a 50k book at the end.)

I didn't know what to write so I asked some friends what How We Could Have Met 2 chapters they thought I should make into a bigger story. I didn't really get that much feedback except for one of my friends (shoutout to uberperk) who mentioned rooftop stories would be a cool one to do.

And so on the first day of November 2019, I started this journey of writing my first ever book.

Midway through, I really didn't like it. I thought it was boring, and hyper-realistic and that no one would ever want to read it since it's a niche time and that it was an overall a dumb idea.

Then I came to the conclusion, since there are a lot of things in this book that are derived from my own personal life, that this is the book I needed to write. I told myself that since this is the first book I'm writing, it's okay if it's not good. I also just needed to write this because so much of it was things I was going through and feeling at the time.

So, I pushed through and spent the next six months re-writing the entire thing.

Because I also learned that NaNoWriMo doesn't end you with a book, it ends you with a first draft of a book. And the only way to write a book is to re-write. So that's what I did.

Then I had my beta read it and she thought it was great, which was amazing to hear and gave me hope that maybe other people would like it too.

AND THEN YOU GUYS SHOWED UP AND CHANGED LITERALLY EVERYTHING!

Hearing the amount of people who loved the real-ness and were able to connect with it, was mind-boggling. I also ended up talking to a lot of my older audience that I didn't even know I had, people trying to figure out their post-graduation lives? Insane. And even the people not at that point in life, just being able to relate to things regardless, unbelievable.

All I ever want to accomplish with my writing is to make people feel things, and for people to find it relatable, to see a piece of themselves or their lives in this and know that it's all normal and okay and they're not alone. So hearing what you all had to say about this is so much more than I could have ever hoped for!

It made me change the way I view this story entirely and I don't really know if I can ever thank you guys enough for that.

I hope that this book taught you a little something, as it did me.

And I want to thank everyone for taking time out of your lives to give this story a chance, for reading it, reviewing, and sharing your thoughts. It's been my pleasure and I truly appreciate all your support. Thank you.

(And there are a few of you who've been here since the beginning or after finding it have reviewed on every chapter, you know who you are, and let me say I appreciate it! Responding to you guys and conversing over this whole journey has been my favorite part!)

And with that I'll leave this ridiculously long authors note here. If you made it this far, here's a sneak peak, I've got another book coming that I wrote for last years NaNoWriMo (I'm currently in the process of re-writing it.) Thank you guys again.

See ya! :)