Hello! Two whole months huh? Two wholeass months between the last chapter and this one. Its been a surprisingly good two months considering the lack of updates, fair few people found this story in the interim and left some lovely comments I haven’t repped/responded to yet. Um. Sorry for the cold welcome.

So, where the hell have I been? And why am I putting this author’s notes in its own separate update chapter? Well, to answer the second question, I’m fed up of all of my authors notes being about my update schedule. Sometimes you wanna talk about the actual chapter, y’know? I’ll probably delete this update at some point cos it clutters up my beautiful lil chapter select list and artificially inflates my word count.

To answer the former… Well a lot of reasons. I’ve been on holiday for more than two weeks out of the two months. One of those times I was camping, and lemme tell you, a field is not the environment most conducive to writing anything.

In addition, I’ve gone through several bouts of near insomnia as well as lovely little period of depression and dysphoria. Pretty hopeful I’m out the other side of the aforementioned things, I’m certainly in a pretty good mood while writing this.

However, the biggest factor leading to the hiatus is executive dysfunction. Probably brought about by ADHD. I mean, maybe. I’ve never been diagnosed for either thing, but trust me, it adds up a lot, and even if it turns out I’m somehow as neurotypical as can be, the methods I’ve employed to help me deal with procrastination that are supposed to help ADHD folks have helped me a lot.

For example, I’ve heard it helps to have multiple creative projects going at once, so when you lose focus on one, you have another to focus on. During the hiatus, while completely unable to even touch Deified, I wrote the introductions of two whole entire separate novels in like, a night.

A night per novel that is. Two novel introductions a night would be a bit extreme. I doubt anything will come of either concept, at least for a while yet, because, full chapters they may be but good… eh idk. Then again, I wrote them while still pretty depressed, maybe they were better than I remember.

Even if they are good, I doubt anything will come of them for a while. If I lose steam while writing Deified, I wanna write short stories while regaining said steam. At least, until folks trust me to one day to return to Deified and I won’t abandon the project.

So yeah, expect that for the future. If I stop uploading, check my page to see if I’m working on any short stories. My current ideas involve a practically plotless exploration of Existence, the omni-fiction in which pretty much every story is canon, and a classic doctor who inspired adventure through a planet of snail people in worship of the benevolent Snellod, Goddess of Snails.

So either way, its probably gonna be self-indulgent, but hey, even if you don’t like em it’ll probably lead to more Deified, so suck it up biaatch!

Anyway, I think that’s everything I wanted to say in this rambly ol’ update. I guess two months isn’t that long in the grand scheme of things, there’s projects on this world wide web of ours with like, multi-year long hiatuses. Consider yourself lucky, my friends!