u/Dependent_Tomato_235

I failed last term after starting school late. However, even at the start of this term, I've been kind of struggling, though I am making plans to try and get back on the right track. But now my mom dropped a bomb on me after she saw that I was behind on some of my work and declared that if I don't do well with my grades at the end of the term in June, I would go back to regular school.

For my mom, good grades are grades above, like 80-85% average minimum. I haven't gotten grades like that since the 3rd or 4th grade, maybe 5th, but no later. I'm in the 10th grade now, and I can say from certainty that I have no confidence that i could even get 10% on any subject right now. I literally know nothing. But I don't want to go back to regular school.

I asked my mom to help me set up a Microsoft account on my laptop since I needed one for school to access Word, Outlook and etc. Little did I know that I had basically given away all of my privacy and autonomy at that moment. She added me to a family account that she had created and joined along with my step father, now my laptop is completely useless.

I can't access any websites at all without permission first. I tried logging into Pinterest as well as a site that I used to read comics, and it was blocked by a message saying that I need a parent's permission to go into the website.

LIKE WHAT?! You mean to tell me that I now need PERMISSION to use MY laptop the way I want to use it? That's taking the piss. Not to mention that there's now a screen time lock on my laptop as well, and after 9 PM, my laptop is switched off automatically, not to be used until 8 am the next day. I literally sleep at like 10-11 pm every night, sometimes even later during weekends. What the hell am I supposed to do now?

I'm 16, not 6. I'm literally old enough to drive in some parts of the world, old enough to have legal intercourse in some parts of the world, old enough to get a freaking job and start earning a salary, and you're literally trying to lock down and control my devices as if I'm some toddler? Piss off!

I will never go back to that woman or any of the others like her for help ever again. No more!

For now, I'm getting past this thing one way or another. Whether that's through an alternate account or me just jailbreaking the entire system, I'm not living like this.

I asked my mom to help me set up a Microsoft account on my laptop since I needed one for school to access Word, Outlook and etc. Little did I know that I had basically given away all of my privacy and autonomy at that moment. She added me to a family account that she had created and joined along with my step father, now my laptop is completely useless.

I can't access any websites at all without permission first. I tried logging into Pinterest as well as a site that I used to read comics, and it was blocked by a message saying that I need a parent's permission to go into the website.

LIKE WHAT?! You mean to tell me that I now need PERMISSION to use MY laptop the way I want to use it? That's taking the piss. Not to mention that there's now a screen time lock on my laptop as well, and after 9 PM, my laptop is switched off automatically, not to be used until 8 am the next day. I literally sleep at like 10-11 pm every night, sometimes even later during weekends. What the hell am I supposed to do now?

I'm 16, not 6. I'm literally old enough to drive in some parts of the world, old enough to have legal intercourse in some parts of the world, old enough to get a freaking job and start earning a salary, and you're literally trying to lock down and control my devices as if I'm some toddler? Piss off!

I will never go back to that woman or any of the others like her for help ever again. No more!

For now, I'm getting past this thing one way or another. Whether that's through an alternate account or me just jailbreaking the entire system, I'm not living like this.

Any tips?

Whenever I watch TV, I can't help but wish my life were more like that. When I watch action-packed adventures filled with danger and chaos, I get so excited daydreaming about being in a similar scenario, then I think about the most exciting thing in my life currently and it's me having to write another story that makes me sad and is a pain in the butt to write.

When I watch the passionate and emotional romances that fill me with hope, awe, and a warm and fuzzy feeling, I look to my side and see nobody there to replicate those moments with. My brain tries to make me feel better with daydreams of love, but it only makes things worse.

When I watch comedies about a group of friends getting up to some crazy shenanigans, I'm reminded that my contact list is empty, frequented only by my mother, and that the closest thing I've ever had to anything the people on that screen have is when I went out to the movies with my friend when I was 9, which is still one of the only times I did such a thing.

This truly makes me sad

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It took me around 8 months to finish the first draft of my story's entire first volume, and then when I had finally finished I decided to change the whole thing because I was unhappy with the setting, and wanted to change the plot a bit. Now I have to go back and edit and restructure and basically rewrite all 92 chapters of the draft along with new chapters I have to add in because of the changes and the chapters I skipped or rushed through during my 1st draft.

But now the problem is that doing all that takes wayy too much time. It takes hours just to finish with one chapter, and I've done like 3 so far with 100 more to go. Then I need to write volume 2 (another 100 chapters) and edit them as well before I'm finally ready to start serializing.

I was supposed to have started posting in December last year, then I moved it over to June this year, but at this rate, it might only come out in 2027. For a web serial, this is a ridiculous amount of time to work on the story without posting. I'm starting to think that I'll never finish writing this draft and I no longer have any motivation to continue with it, but at the same time, my brain won't let me think of anything else.

What makes a story become immortal?

what's the difference between books that very few people ever hear, books that become super popular only for a limited amount of time, and books that basically become staples of mythologies, cultures or just the human experience, and go on to maintain relevancy even hundreds and thousands of years after they were first written?

I know quality is one thing, but that can't be all.

Romeo and Juliet are literally the poster children of the entire concept of love and romance. The rest of Shakespeare's works are just as immortalized.

Homer's Illiad and Odyssey were literally written over two thousand years ago, and yet today, one of them have a movie adaptation releasing soon that is one of the most anticipated films of the year. Not to mention, they're both a staple of Geek culture.

In the there's is the 1001 Nights, Journey to the West and others. How have they lasted so long?