Release Information

Hello everyone!

First I want to thank everyone for reading this far and supporting me as much as you have over the past two years. Project TheirWorld has been a hugely rewarding experience for me, and I have learned so much during this time (micro-editing/grammar is not one of those things, I know :p).

That said, it’s with a heavy heart and much consideration that I need to take a break from this particular story. I’m going through some things right now — looking for a new job, going back to school, misc. health and life stuff — and I’ve come to the conclusion that forcing myself to continue the story with the chapter deadlines I’ve set for myself is detrimental both to my stress levels and the story itself.

I’ve been struggling for a while now with the story, either fighting my desire to edit because I’m not happy with how it’s gone, or just with general depression and losing the desire to write at all, and I feel like it’s starting to show up more and more in this story.

Last week I worked on a new story project and it was like a breath of fresh air. I had so much fun with it, and was so excited with it, that I realized that I forgot why I wrote TheirWorld in the first place. After, when trying to switch gears back into TheirWorld, I had to put a huge amount of effort into writing just a handful of so-so Alphas, and I was actually pretty miserable doing it, compared to when I worked on the other. The story and you readers really deserve more than that kind of half-assed attitude. The only way I can think of revitalizing my feelings for the story is to release myself from this work-like attitude I’ve placed on it.

What does this mean?

I still plan to finish the story, but at my own pace. This means that you may see one or two chapters a week still. It may mean that you won’t see chapters for a couple of weeks, and then get a chapter dump of ten chapters. It may mean that you won’t see me again till Christmas — I don’t really know, and I’m not going to make any promises aside from: I will finish it, one way or another. Fighting!

This may even give me the energy to work on uploading better edited versions of the existing draft so people can stop complaining about my grammar (including me, haha.)

Also, I am declaring this the official/unofficial ‘PART 2’ of Tatterskin so that it’s not quite as weird when other PoVs show up in the future. I am hoping that this is another thing that will help me regain my excitement about the project again.

I really am sorry I have to do it this way, but again, this does NOT mean I am abandoning the story; just that I may not be as active as I have been.

Thank you everyone!

Rachel

*RRL Specific -- At some point when I am feeling up to it I'll upload the chapters so that RRL matches WordPress and Patreon, as well.