CREDITS

I finally finished this story!

I began writing it in 2009 when I had been completely obsessed with Twilight. I did things I never thought I could, all because I read a love story between a human girl and a vampire!

I met so many amazing people online that were going through the same thing. It was the support from total strangers on fanfiction and Twitter, as well as reviews and DM's that kept me going as I used writing Twilight fanfiction to come to terms with things in my own life.

Back in 2009 I had two very young children and writing was my 'me time'. I think it kept me sane. All those people that would leave reviews and tell me that they hated Bella in this story, I had to bite my tongue, because she was based on me and some past experiences (if not a little dramatic). The deluded scenarios I would tell myself in the stressful world of being a wife and a mother with no idea what I wanted to do outside of those things. By writing, I was given the ability to temporarily abscond those roles. The Purple Bar was a symbol for the purple prose and finding my feet; purely as an amateur writer (lemons were a bonus)!

Life has its ups and downs and then the writing kind of stopped. My last update was in 2014! OK, I did a couple of one-shots when Episode characters just wanted to get down and dirty! And sure, while I did re-read the story, and admit I could have changed a few things, it is what it is and I'm glad I wrote it, and shared it with you all.

But here I am, in lock down. Life is different from 2009-2014. I was trawling through my old Google docs and guess what I found? I had almost two whole chapters, written but not quite finished.

Then the crazy really came out, because since I wrote this story, there has been, #metoo and a global pandemic. I thought I may as well post these chapters and mark the story as COMPLETE!

So, thank you all for reading. I hope that you've enjoyed, hated, loved, been frustrated, wanted to scream, wanted to cry, swooned, squirmed and sighed throughout this journey with me.

I wanted this to be a credit role of sorts because every Episode needs to have end credits. I hope you can indulge me.

END CREDITS

Source material credit: Stephenie Meyer, (Twilight, Midnight Sun, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn)

Beta/Pre-reading team (2009-2014): CandyTwi, LadyZoe, mpg/WriteOnShell, casket4mytears, Content1 (Twilighted) and Madmum. Thank you, lovely ladies, for making my stories better, for correcting grammar and typos and for your encouragement and suggestions.

W.C. support crew (2009-2013): mpg, albymangroves, Kitsushel, MissWinkles, SydneyGen, Robrator, Edwardsisobel, Vampshavelaws, vbfb19, AnnaFaze. How wonderful it was to have a group of writers at your beck and call, to read a snippet of text (out of context) and offer advice? Best experience ever! Thank you!

Reviewers: And to the reviewers that were kind. My story wasn't for everyone. As a fanfiction writer (i.e., not a professional writer) seeing a review alert pop into my inbox was such a thrill. I may not have responded to every single review, but I tried my best, because for anyone to take the time to read and leave an encouraging comment, was simply fantastic!

Thanks to (in no order):

CandyTwi

mpg

MizzezPattinson

Casket4mytears

Madmum

Twanza

Twicrazreader

DutchGirl01

AlbyMangroves

MissWinkles

SydneyTwiMum

Robrator

Cared

Edwardsisobel

MyMunkyMan

Emmzac

Kazbar65

Hockey_Chick10

Magtwi78

Shellisthimbles

Sri_ffn

84Gemstone

Mountainloin718

TwiFanfictionRecs

Sekoehler

rubell

LADARTHA

thunnababy

Femme_Mal

LadyZoe

And to the 2,062 people who have favorited this story and the 2,237 people who have followed it.

Thank you!

Luv BBxx