Just dropping a note to apologize to everyone for being MIA for a few weeks. Life has been hectic here with bad weather, several unexpected bills (last month, we somehow overlooked paying both a a credit card and the phone bill!), and the wife being ill and having multiple doctor visits. (4 trips to different doctors last week alone!) , and general stress/distraction levels have been high and I simply haven't had time or motivation to do much writing at all...

Good news is, there's light at the end of the tunnel finally! My wife's disability finally got approved, so starting next month we'll have that extra income to help relieve the financial stress on our household somewhat. Things are settling down with the doctor visits (she's gotten settled into a schedule of physical rehab now), and warmer weather is finally around the corner. :D

I just wanted to take a moment to drop in and let everyone know: I'm not dead (yet), and new chapters should be coming sometime soonish in the different stories which I'm sharing on the site here.

Also, while I'm here, let me do a little shameless self-promoting: The Fallen Ascending has became the #1 story on Inkitt.com! http://www.inkitt.com/ The gender bender tag seems to be putting people off on reading it here on RoyalRoadL, but it's going strong elsewhere! (Over 1500 readers a day at one point, with an average of 100+ new readers every day! Compare that to ~500 followers on RRL here, and then remember: The story has only been there for about a month total, and it'd been here since the beginning of December...)

Also, I hope other authors take a moment to look at the above, and appreciate it. Just because a story doesn't do well HERE doesn't mean it's not a good story, or that it won't do good elsewhere. RRL has a very specific demographic of readers (mainly they want overpowered, harem, male-dominated, power fantasies), and not every store is going to find love and appreciation here. BUT. That doesn't mean that it won't be loved and appreciated elsewhere!

Write what YOU want to write. Share it in multiple places, and spread it to a diverse set of readers. Just because it's not something that's going to be popularly accepted here, doesn't mean it won't be accepted elsewhere. Have fun with your writing, and let the people who enjoy it, enjoy it. And for those that don't: that's no big deal. YOU enjoyed writing it, so it's not a waste of time or effort.

Do you watch TV shows simply because someone else enjoys them? Do you drop the shows you like because someone else puts them down? Or do you watch what YOU enjoy watching? Is it a waste of time and effort? If you don't think watching a TV show for enjoyment is bad, then how could you ever think that writing for your own enjoyment is bad? Write for yourself FIRST AND FOREMOST, and you'll never have anything to regret later.

Now: Don't just wait on me to come back and update MY stories; get out there and create your own! I'll be looking forward to reading them as I'm sitting in the office waiting on the wife to finish her rehab twice a week. ;)