"Did I not give this post a title when I published it originally?" is just one more thing to apologize for

So I've been gone for a long time, and I know that there isn't much of an excuse that can be made for it, except perhaps to say that I am a very busy person, and sometimes just cannot find time in the day to make any writing happen. I'm not going to try make a promise in here about when updates will start flowing again, since as I look back through these blog posts I see more than a couple of such promises, all of them now laying broken upon the inexorable passing of time. So, here is what I will say: I'm not gone. For the time being, I've been forced to shelve my work, probably until April or so, since my university courses are too demanding for much else. But come May, I will get back to this. As far as each story goes, however, unfortunately things will be a little different.

Sun & Moon is, and will always remain my primary focus. At the moment, however, it's going through open heart surgery. I do rather regret, actually, that the version that's published here on the site is so completely outdated, and is missing many of the wonderful new things that I've added to it over this time. Unfortunately, I will only update it once we have a version that is in continuity with itself, and unfortunately we haven't gotten to enough of the later stuff for that to be true yet. I said in the above paragraph that I can't make any promises as far as time goes, but I will say that I would consider it a matter of crushing shame if we were not able to get Act I into a complete state by the end of the year.

And then we come to What Society Expects From a Princess. With every new favourite and upvote that has come in for this story, a fresh spike of guilt has shot through my heart, because in truth I haven't been working particularly hard on it. In truth, whenever I do take it out for some work, I just get hit a big barrier of writer's block, and I'm sorry for that. Because that there are rather a lot of people out there that really do want to know where that story is going, and I know that it is going to a wonderful place that you are going to enjoy. If I was to hazard a guess as to what might dispel this writer's block, I would say that it would be probably be a bit of exposure to the source material, which never ceases to amaze me in its ability to inspire. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any of Season 4 yet, though I'm betting that it might hold the key to revitalizing my spirit. As a case in point, my most recent story (which I hope might sate your desire if only a bit) was primarily inspired by a bit of original music that I heard just a couple of days ago.

So, in closing, I know that I can't really apologize to any of you in a way that will matter, really. I wish that I could say more. I wish that I could say that tomorrow everything would be back to normal, and that I could start posting chapters every week again like back in those first few days. But I feel quite ashamed for how long it has been, and I will try to get that stuff back running as soon as possible.

May Celestia's Light shine forever,
cursedchords