About The Seventh · 12:56am Dec 14th, 2014
With my sudden return to the site, there is a particular issue which I think I need to address: The Seventh.
Way back when, that story was my pride and joy, and I poured a lot of time and emotion into it, and the response I got to it was overwhelmingly positive. And I know a few people who were a bit puzzled when I suddenly stopped writing it. I want to explain why this happened, but also to say that, now that I'm back, I am seriously thinking about writing its long-awaited conclusion.
I started writing The Seventh while I was going through a fairly rough phase emotionally. I was suffering from depression, and was having great difficulty doing work, and on top of this I was having a bit of an existential crisis trying to figure out where I wanted my life to be going.
I managed to get through this phase eventually, I'm pleased to say, and one thing which helped greatly with it was my art and my writing. It gave me something to do, and somewhere to vent a lot of the emotional issues I was having. It may not have been clear to my readers, but it was very obvious to me that the events of The Seventh, along with some of my other creations, ended up becoming very closely tied to my own personal journey.
But when I did recover and went back to work, this had the result that The Seventh started to feel a lot more disconnected from my life. It was much more a part of my past than my present, and whenever I tried to put any effort into the final chapters, I found that I just couldn't make any progress. In the end I just moved on to other things, and eventually forgot about it.
But still, this story did always mean quite a lot to me, so now that I have returned to writing, I think I will make another effort to finish it. I was incredibly close to the end, and I know what needs to happen (my plan has not changed from what it was a year ago; in fact I've had the epilogue written and ready for a very long time), so it is a very feasible task. I will have to decide how to fit it in with my current ongoing story and other commitments, however, so while I promise to make the effort, I cannot tell you when it will happen just yet. I only hope it will be soon.
I wish you luck. And await the chapter.
I hope it works out for you, bring on the end!