Hey there - Lost here.
it's been five months and my stories has long entered the dreaded automatic hiatus notice. I know that some people on Discord or Trello follow my progress. For the others, I just wanted to give a really short update.
Probably the best message is that my private plans worked out and I got the job I wanted, which is both a massive increase in job security and payment for me. Which in terms makes it also easier for me to make time for writing when I don't have to do stuff at the side.
The other good message is, that the rewrite of Volume 1 is finished. As said before, there weren't any massive changes to the overall story. Mostly just fixing stuff and adding descriptions with a few additional chapters/forshadowing. Nothing big really. It took relatively long both due to my job change and me writing another book in my mother tongue.
I spoke with a lot of writers who are far ahead of me and the most common advice I got was to stop forcing the series and take a short break before rewriting it. To focus on something else and let the brain work on it in the background. And it kinda worked, as a lot of those smaller pieces for V2/3 fell into place. I also used some time to update my writing environment and other stuff.
From now on, it'll be Volume 2 which will need a lot more updates. The overall storyline will be the same, but due to my on-off-writing back then, the overall theme and flow just vanished in between the updates. So there'll be more chapters that have to be rewritten in their entirety. I plan to restart publishing when I'm nearing the end of it, so we can rush through both volumes straight into the third one.
It'll still be some time, but I honestly start to see a small light at the end of this rather lonely rewrite.
I have a date/deadline in mind but I won't say anything for now. I don't want another rushed volume filled with unneeded problems :D
So, it'll still be some time. But right now I hope that it's rather "a few more weeks" than "a few more months" :D
Until then.
Lost
It's been a while since I've last commented on your story. Always came a few days too late and it ended up being weird to comment anymore. But yeah, so, it would be a lie if I said I didn't felt disappointed everytime I realised the story wouldn't update anytime soon, a few weeks is still a few weeks. But that really isn't your fault, everyone has problems and all problems require time to solve, at least most do. So do take your time, your personal life is much more important than the satisfaction of your readers, actually. Yeah so that's that, thank you for always trying and thank you for continuing to try, good luck
Congratulations for your job!!
Until a few more weeks! (insert one year later in bad french tone XD), <=kidding about this; just concentrate in your private life before resuming writing, everything else goes later.
HI! I forget to comment earlier, but you can always count on my support for this story.
Glad to see progress being made.
Good for you in a nice way.