[status report] Sweet Nothings isn't dead! · 3:00am May 17th, 2013
When I started this project, I had some reasonable ambitions for it: I'd work up a few chapters ahead of time, publish one, work on another, publish the next chapter after two or three weeks... I'd have the whole thing done in a year. Two, tops.
Chapter 3 took me three months to finish.
Chapter 4 has been taking a similarly long time to get through writing.
The story is deeply personal to me, and it's going to be the longest story I've ever written. I knew this from the start, and because of that, I almost didn't even start it out of fear that I'd just abandon it halfway in.
Well, we're not even close to that far in yet, and I've been having a lot of difficulties lately. Various personal issues have been stressing me out, which makes it hard to write, and now my job is moving in a few weeks, and I'll finally be moving out on my own once and for all. It's terrifying, to say the least.
But fear not, I'm not giving up just yet. I've gotten a lot of support from some good friends, and I'm making progress on chapter 4. My hope is to have chapter 4 up by the end of June. In reality, I only have about two or three thousand words left to write in it, but the recent stress and anxiety have made it hard to focus. I'm hoping that after I move (to Raleigh, NC, for the record), that things will settle down and I'll be able to write more productively again.
I want to thank everyone who's helped support me through this rough time, and to everyone who's been following the story. It means alot to me, and I apologise for the long delays between chapters. More is coming, don't worry.
Hey, you met that "end of June" deadline! Congratulations!
1180572 so I did! Huzzah!
A lot of the credit goes to my new editor, Integral Archer. He got me into some really interesting discussions about not just this story, but about literature/narrative construction in general, and was just overall a really big help in getting me motivated to write.