Welcome to simonesaidwhat.com!
If you’ve found your way here, you probably know me from Wattpad or Radish Fiction where I write Teen Fiction/Young Adult and Romance novels. Or maybe you know me back from the FictionPress or PlagiarismHaven days. But no matter how you stumbled upon this blog, I’m glad you’re here!
Anyway, I figured I might as well take a moment to introduce myself and tell the tale of how I ended up here.
So, hi! I’m Simone! I’m an avid reader and writer who has been on the internet for… a long time!
I started writing online back when Quizilla was still a thing and I was too young to be on the internet. Anybody out there remember Quizilla? I wrote fanfiction and it was bad. But even if it sucked, I had the time of my life writing it.
It was around 2007 when I realized I was interested in writing original fiction. I moved to FictionPress and started posting, kicking everything off with a little story called Once Upon a One Night Stand (known as Once Upon a One Night Mistake ask of July 2021)
Unfortunately, due to rampant plagiarism, I didn’t stay on FP for very long. I’d made a few friends during that time and discovered they had also been plagiarized, but despite that blow, we all still wanted to keep sharing our work online. So we banded together and created a private LiveJournal community called Plagiarism Haven.
The PH days were some of the best of my life. Was it a lot of work running a 2,000+ user community? Yes! But I loved it. We were a little creative family and I was able to explore who I was becoming as a writer in a safe space.
But, as many things go, PH shut down in 2013. Most of us were either busy with school or working full-time jobs, so writing began to fall by the wayside. Running the community became a bit too much to handle and we mutually decided to bring the PH chapter to a close in January 2013.
I hadn’t written anything since mid-2012 anyway. And I didn’t write another word until May 2014.
Two years. That’s how long I stopped writing. Sometimes I look back and think, “how did I not write a single word for two whole years?” But then I remember that those two years were some of the best (and most stressful) years of my life. I was too busy focusing on my own life instead of my fictional characters.
But by the end of 2014, I was starting to miss sharing my work with others. I’d essentially grown up posting my work chapter-by-chapter on various sites, and the lack of feedback/interaction was starting to make writing feel lonely, which it had never been for me before.
Enter Wattpad. I only knew of the site’s existence because someone had posted a plagiarized version of Once Upon a One Night Stand there (which I will from now on refer to as “OUAONS”). I was wary of the site for sure, but I figured it was my best bet if I wanted to share my work again.
So in January 2015, I started posting OUAONS under the username “simonesaidwhat”.
I wouldn’t say it was an instant success, but the story definitely took off. By June, I had posted all the chapters and was sitting at a lofty #3 on the Teen Fiction Hot List, a ranking system that Wattpad has since done away with (and needs to bring back, tbh!). I was amazed that this little story that I started writing at 13 had achieved such a feat.
At nearly the end of 2018, OUAONS sits at 21 million views and I have nearly 91k followers. Honestly, I still can’t quite believe it, but I’m thankful for every single one of those people who gave me and my stories a chance. (Update: As of July 2021, it’s at nearly 30 million views!)
Other than OUAONS, I’ve written and posted several other stories to Wattpad and Radish Fiction, which is another serialized fiction app. I’m happy to have found a home on both sites.
With this blog, I’ll definitely be keeping you all up to date on my writing journey, as well as my general life. If that’s something you’re interested in, stick around! I promise we’ll have some fun.
I can’t wait to share more with you all! But for now, take care ❤️
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i loved getting to read more about your writing journey, and i’m so excited to read your future posts!! you’re my hero ❤️
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funny you should say so because you’re MY hero ❤️
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Great post! Best of luck with your blogging endeavors!
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Thank you so much!
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I’m so happy you decided to make a blog, this will be my safe haven of 2019!❤️
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Oh man, you’ve just reminded me of the PH days. That community was pretty great. I’m glad you’re back to writing and on wattpad and radish though. I’ve recently finished Dryland, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Eva is awesome!
Anyway, I look forward to seeing more of your blog, which will no doubt be interesting!
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Thank you so much! And man, sometimes I really do miss the PH days, I loved our community so much ❤️
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I love your books and writing style! I’m definitely interested to see what other funny remarks and stories you’ll be posting here 🙂
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this was so fun to read! admittedly, there were a few things i didn’t know here so that was super exciting to read. i’m really proud of how far you’ve come💞
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Thank you so much, Faria! 💕
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I’m so glad you decided to write a blog! I’ve already learnt a lot more about you and I’m looking forward to learning more (please note I meant that in a unstalkerish way).
I still can’t believe you wrote OUAONS when you were thirteen considering how mature and well developed your writing and the characters are, and I really hope you publish your work someday. I, for one, would love to own a copy or two of each of your books (one for reading and one to keep in pristine condition…).
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I’m so happy this exists, your writing is literally one of the only things I can rant about for hours on end and have fallen in love with BUT you as a person and your no bullshit author notes are what I live for. I’ve had one convo with you on Twitter and it brightened up my whole week, and I’ve NEVER read a blog but I think I’ll be sticking around for this as long as you keep writing about whatever you want! <3<3<3
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I really hope you’ll enjoy the stuff I post here!! And ahhh, thank you so much, you’re seriously so sweet ❤️
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THAT’S!!! MY!!!!! MOM!!!!!!!
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can’t wait for more! i always felt bad from taking a break from writing to focus on myself, but your story has made me feel a bit better haha
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i’m incredibly excited to read more posts from you! i haven’t been reading much on wp or radish and i’ve missed your writing but i’m so glad that you have this! YAY SIMONE!
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I’m happy to see you here, yay!! ❤️
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You made me so nostalgic with the mention of Quizilla! Spent all my afternoons there once upon a time and eventually found Wattpad through it. Good old days haha.
Great post and best of luck for your journey!
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it’s pretty wild to realize i’ve been tagging along since like 2007-8 FP?! idek how time went by so fast. but i’m excited to see where you’re headed!
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in my head it’s still, like, 2010 somehow haha. but it really is wild to think about how long we’ve been wrapped up in this writing world, wow. and I’m excited to see where you’re headed as well! ❤️
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Just discovered that you started a blog! Went straight for this post to re-discover your journey since I’ve been following you since the FP days.. Crazy that it’s been so long, but I’ll continue to follow you wherever your journey takes you and support your writing (whether it’s stories or blog posts)!
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I’m so glad you’ve found the blog! And honestly, it’s wild that it’s been so long, sometimes I can’t even believe it haha. Thank you so much for sticking with me after all this time! ❤️
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It’s nice to meet you and find your blog, Simone! I’m looking forward to reading your posts – happy weekend!
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AYYYYYYY SLYTHERIN
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Hey Simone! I’m glad you continued with Laleh’s story in Arabian Nights. It was refreshing to see better quality writing on Radish. I’m quite new to the platform and I was a bit disappointed. However your story keeps me there. Unless it is possible to read your words somewhere else.
I like the way you build up your heroes and I appreciate that you go beyond the surface when you describe their feelings and motives and actions.
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