The Way

by mint-choc-chip amethyst

Happiness is a tightrope, and it only takes one moment to make you fall off and hit rock bottom. It'll feel like there's nothing good left in the world, and you'll wish you weren't alive. But then something else happens, and suddenly you're back on that rope. I guess that's just the way life works. [Important A/N chapter 6; please read]

6. Important AN

A/N: First of all, I would like to apologise for those of you who thought this was a new chapter and are now disappointed that it is just an author's note. That is, if there are any of you out there who feel this way.

Here's the thing. I'm not a self-absorbed person, nor do I crave praise (at least, I try not to do/be either of these things) but it upsets me a bit when I log on week after week and see no reviews. Sure, I write this story mostly for my own pleasure, because I love to write, but I post it on here for your pleasure, because I know you love to read. The thing that upsets me, though, is not really that, it's the fact that there are 15 of you out there that follow this story, that get an email when I post a new chapter, and that (probably) read every chapter. Therefore, I conclude from this, that there are 15 of you that are enjoying my story. So please, is it that hard for you 15 to write a review? Or, for that matter, any others that have got this far? It doesn't matter if it is negative or positive, but it just means that I have something to go on; I know that there is something that I should improve because you didn't like it, or there is something I should do more of because you enjoyed it. I know it can be a bore to review someone's work because you just want to carry on and read another Fanfiction, but it only takes a minute - in fact, less than that if you can't be bothered to leave a review and just write an anonymous one (but if you do that, I would greatly appreciate it if you wrote your name at the bottom, so that I know who you are). I know this, because this is how I feel, until I posted this story and got no reviews. Now I know how, as an author, it feels, so I try my hardest to review every story that I read.

There's not much more to say, apart from that if I carry on getting no response, I might take this story down from my account. Not to spite anyone, but just because there are so many other ideas in my mind that I want to pursue as well that more people might enjoy.

Having said all this, while I wait on reviews and decide whether to continue this story or not, I will be going back to the beginning of the story and improving all the chapters. Nothing serious, the story line will stay the same, but I realised as I reread my story that Noa is a bit Mary-Sue-ish. Anyone else feel this way? Maybe that is why not many people are enjoying this story, and if that is the case then I am trying to fix it. I'll be changing the way she acts and feels about other characters/ situations and adding some depth to her character.

The last thing I have to say is that I won't judge any of you if you stop reading / unfollow / unfavorite this story after reading this if you think I'm being greedy, selfish, spiteful, pretentious or whatever other adjective you would like to use to describe me, because if I were in your shoes I might feel and therefore do the same thing. I just want to let you know that however I might come across in this (essay of an) author's note, I do love all you guys and thank you for reading my story.

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