Joe felt turned off by the message, deleting it and going on with his day. While he enjoyed brainstorming he did not feel comfortable shifting to aim. Plus something about how the message went made him feel oddly uncomfortable. Instead, he would focus on simply writing, collaborating with other authors and making plenty of stories.
Unfortunately, as the years went on he found himself growing dissatisfied. Life continued to get in the way. Spending more time out socially, taking his job more seriously, and even getting a girlfriend. Still, he found himself checked up on writing.com from time to time, looking for updates and further stories written by others. As time went on even those dwindled, writing.com getting worse to use as a site and being nearly unusable without a membership subscription. This caused the people who would usually write chapters after him to stop bothering, leaving no interactivity to bounce off from.
Even the people he used to just roleplay with over email moved on, leaving him without any new content. It felt somewhat disheartening but as he developed and started to get serious in his relationship it became just something in the back of the mind. Something he used to do and no longer spends any time on.
Feeling relatively happy in his life he put it out of his mind until-
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