Hello again. Been a while. Welcome back to my bimonthly pre-chapter update. God, d’you remember last time, when I was all happy and optimistic, fully expecting a glorious return? Maybe you don’t. It was over two months ago.

Well, what happened? Well, life I suppose. Its not really something I wish to completely get into, somewhat personal and all that, but it completely burnt me out of writing for a long ass while, to the point I feared I’d never return.

Also, turned out there was an obscenely unhealthy amount of carbon dioxide in my room, giving me constant brain fog and headaches, and leaving me struggling to think and read. Yeah. That… that probably didn’t help much, huh? It was like this for months. Months.

Recently however, I felt again the urge to create. Continuing Deified seemed far too daunting, so I set to work on one of the side projects mentioned last update. A smaller story to get me back into it again. Then I wrote three chapters in a week.

That is bloody good for me, especially considering how long its taken me to write Deified chapters of late. Absolutely loved the experience of it, too, truly a joy to write. They should be coming to Royal Road before too long, three chapters (about 7k words) doesn’t feel like enough for me to start posting (and I’m considering practising my editing by polishing up the first chapter), but it shall come soon.

However, while I wrote this new tale, I uh, kinda wrote off Deified? In my heart of hearts, I did not plan on continuing the series, not for a long while at least. But, around two weeks ago, for two days in a row, I received comments here, one very much showing an interest in the series continuing (thanks for the support, btw, the love this series gets does warm my heart), and whether it was this, or something else, it inspired me to finish this chapter that I left unfinished.

And it came pretty easily to me! Like, finished it in a day! And I’m just super happy to have got it done. I hope y’all like it too.

Truth be told, the prospect of fully committing to Deified’s return is very daunting to me. Its big, often complicated and that makes it scary. Worse still, it has felt like a chore to continue, the fun had left me somewhat. Even after those comments were posted, and I’d finished writing, I still felt like I’d rather focus primarily on my new story (hence why it took so long to actually upload this chapter, even though its been “finished” a while). I still did not expect Deified to ever be finished.

But then, writing on the new story slowed down, and got harder, and moved slowly towards chore territory and I felt a deep fear. What if I’m just not cut out for writing? What if I’m lying to myself and I don’t actually enjoy it? What if I never finish any project I ever write?!

And then something strange happened. I got the urge to continue working on Deified. And so that’s what I’m doing while writing this. Checking over this chapter one last time, and then, hopefully, starting work on the next.

Then I realised, I’m a fucking idiot. Because whats happening is exactly what I talked about last update. I need to switch between projects to keep interest in both. Y’know, the thing I literally wrote down as a potential solution to this whole hiatus situation?!

So, what does that mean for the future? Well, I’m almost certainly not gonna return to weekly chapters any time soon. Hopefully, chapters uploads will speed up soon, although y’all might not notice straight away, because some of those chapters will take a while to get to Royal Road, as I would like to have a lot of my new story done before I post it to Royal Road, cos god am I excited for it, and really want it to do well enough to find its audience (its slightly off RR’s preferred genres, I’m not really expecting it to blow up, lol).

Still, hopefully I should be able to upload Deified more frequently than once every two months+ and I am, perhaps naïvely, hopeful. Nothings set in stone yet, maybe nothing gonna change, we’re still very much in the experimentation stage of my new writing endeavours.

So, yeah. Whenever I’ve managed to begin writing again, I’ve always been really happy about it, so here’s hoping I can do that again, that my new plan works, and that life does not kick in my teeth again.

Once my new story (called Dawn of the Planet of the Snails btw) is out, I’d love it if some of y’all could check it out, I’ve really fallen in love with it over the planning and early writing stage. I’ll post a link in a Deified authors notes once its out, but if you take a look and it doesn’t interest you, then no pressure.

It’s truly an honour to have y’all sticking with me through these long hiatuses, especially considering not everyone does, and each hiatus does lose me a fair handful of followers. Seriously, thank you so much, your support means the world.

I think that’s all I had to say. Assuming it is, lets get on with the show!