Hello, welcome to this lovely book. I hope you all have a good time reading. To start let me explain what this project entails in detail.

ProjectFlashFlood is designed not only to raise awareness, but also to help. We will be providing you with information about the growing problems of suicide, self-mutilation, depression, and other forms of self-hatred present and rapidly growing in the world today. We also aim to help writers. 'How are we to accomplish,' this you might ask.

Well, what we have planned is to have several books developed. They will range from real life accounts of people struggling with depression and how they were able to find help and get through there problems to motivational poetry and quotes.

We also will be including information on where to find help when you desire to go down those dark paths. Finally, we are going to have a book just for you to meet the staff, and hear there personal stories, and what ProjectFlashFlood means to them.

Next, we hope to possibly hold contests or awards for writers that have characters in their books undergoing these types of difficulties, and hopefully succeeding in overcoming them.

Lastly, as I mentioned before we have a strong desire to help writers. Writing can be an outlet. It can get you through the hardest of times, and be that listing ear you might have or don't feel the courage to open up to.

I personally also understand the pain and annoyance of being new at writing, and just not having the skills of more veteran writers. We want these struggling writers that have poured out those painful feelings they feel deep within on paper, and get those words recognized. So we plan on three things to help our writers if we get enough support.

A. A spotlight of the week. One of the admins each week will pick a book they feel really captured our views and/or we have read that correctly portrayed the realists of self-hatred and its affects. We also might pick a book we feel showed an actuate portrayal of recovery.

How will we find these? Well first off some we might of read in the past and feel they deserve a spotlight as long as they have less then 1K reads. Or, we will look under a certain tag whoever wishes to be in the spotlight will add to there book. When this Project officially opens the tag will be released and you can start adding them to your books, and possibly get spotlighted!

B. Reviews/Editors/Plot Ideas.  If any of you were like me when I began, I didn't have good ideas, I sucked at editing, and I wanted feedback. Depending on how much support we receive we might open books to help with these aspects for our supports/members only. We will have more information when a book is created.

C. My Personal Favorite: Graphic Designer. It's fairly self-explanatory. We will be offering graphic designers to help you with trailers, playlists, covers, banners, ext.

In the end, all we hope to do is help our fellow Wattpaders. If we can help you please receive it. Because no one deserves to inflict pain on themselves or in any way attempt to end their lives. Please talk to someone and get help.

If you wish to join our project or see how you can support please read on. Also, if you have any ideas of things we should add/adjust leave it in the comment section!

Stay Strong And End The Flood!