#i love you guys but i started today excited to write and workign on fic and now i'm just pissed off

[honeyhotteoks]

Did you stop updating completely?

no, i didn't. honestly, i'm not sure how many ways i need to say this, but i am not done writing, i just cannot post at the same pace i did last year.

i've updated my pinned post to be more clear about this, but essentially please just read this.

i will no longer be replying to any messages (anon or not) about my update schedule, if i'm done posting, when the next chapter is coming, when book 2 is coming out, etc.

i wrote over 500K words last year. that's over a thousand pages. i physically cannot keep this pace any more and it's honestly not normal for fic writers to be posting that amount anyway. i am not a machine churning out content, i physically can't do it.

the sheer amount of people who ask me on a daily basis for updates on my writing isn't flattering anymore, it makes me not want to do it.

[mallowstep]

interstitial: hiatus announcement, blog update, mystery projects

from monday, april 19th, to may 1st, i'll be on hiatus.

exactly what that means is i'm not sure. i'll likely update, but no promises.

other blog news/updates below the cut

okay, to start with the fun stuff:

mystery projects

in this lovely month of may, i'll be doing windclan appreciation. the two major projects are...

i'll believe the wind is calling me (not the time i changed a title within twelve hours of posting, a different one.) feat. cinderpaw, deadfoot, and the old forest. i'm very excited about this one. so far it's looking to be pretty long, but i'm hoping i'll be able to finish it during hiatus and then edit the chapters before posting. because otherwise this is going on a very delayed posting schedule.

the only thing as holy as my love must be you feat. crowfeather, squirrelflight, and the three. (it's not a squirrelcrow au sorry i just realized that could be misleading.) anyway, this one is probably not going to post super often because of other demands, but i am excited for it. you may remember what it's about if you have a freakishly good memory.

other annoucements

i've decided after winds of change, i'm going to be doing a disabled character focus. that lets me finish ashes, i'll believe the wind is calling me, and waiting for me in some unholy sunlight, while also working on/posting dovefeather (med cat dovewing au). this was previously canon divergence stuff, but i almost exclusively write canon divergence anyway.

i'm pretty happy with this/looking forward to it so i don't see it changing.

also, dream of a home i'll never see is on indefinite hiatus. i wrote a post explaining this somewhere, but i'm just going to be upfront, i don't like the first chapter and until i can figure out why and how to fix it, i don't feel comfortable posting chapter two.

it's frustrating because i am excited for chapter two, but i just...there's some stuff i can put my finger on (the reunion scene is all wrong, for one), but there's a deeper, underlying issue i can't pin down. i try hard not to let this happen, but doahins escaped my notice.

ao3 updates

aka the self indulgent section where i list the top 5 fics

ashes remains most read, and it's second overall. which is pretty impressive. i don't think it's going to ever beat my drarry long one-shot, because, uh, that's very popular, but it's closer than i ever thought. so thank you guys.

ashes tops all the charts, but in second place...

better left unsaid still has the most kudos. its companion piece, "ilex aquifolium" (which i can now spell from memory) is also doing insanely well. both of these are two of my favorite pieces, so i'm glad y'all agree.

waiting for me in some unholy sunlight is also doing well. i'm glad, it's got a soft spot in my heart. the chapter updates are slow (at least, compared to ashes), but i'm quite fond of it.

may there be no sadness of farewell is nearly tied with ashes for bookmarks, which is frankly impressive. i'm working on the next chapter for that but lord knows when it'll be out. probably not today, i want to post the next chapter of ashes so everyone can lose their head again.

dream of a home i'll never see is subscribed to and frankly given i'm not sure when i'll be updating it again, i recommend subscribing to it if you like the squirrel that leaps into flight au.

general updates

okay, the twice a day thing worked for me over april break, but i'll be going back down to once daily updates starting in may. when my semester is over, i'll consider upping it, but don't hold your breath.

also, as far as ongoing projects go...

ashes it's physically impossible for me not to work on this, so i'm sure i'll continue to update. but it might get demoted down to weekly updates until june. we'll see.

waiting for me in some unholy sunlight in a good place right now, so probably won't see an update for a while.

may there be no sadness of farewell shrug? i'm not sure. it's got the longest chapters out of anything on-going (although once i start posting ibtwicm, it's going to lose that honor, because that has 3-4k chapters), so it takes the longest to write, and i also take it the most seriously. squils is important to me, i want to do right by her.

five clans alike in dignity will continue to update, albeit, in a somewhat slower fashion. i've got three+ works for this nearly or almost done. but they'll get posted here, to tumblr, first.

the elders' den i'm workign on it. we'll see.

vanishing point i'm not sure when i'll next be adding to this, but there are two more fics for it — a jay piece and a lion piece — so i will be adding to it.

here is the deepest secret shrug? we'll see

alright, that's all! y'all are wonderful, see you in two weeks.

<3