- A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR -
* (please please please read this) *
Hello, my darling readers, I've missed you all quite terribly. I hope you've all been lovely during the past, um, what, three years? Yeah, I'm really very, very, very sorry for that and I feel super awful about it, so I thought I'd explain what happened - why I stopped updating - and tell you what's going to be happening with this story.
So, what happened? Alright. In late-2011/early-2012, I hit a bit of a writer's block with this story. And yeah, that was all okay because that happens with most of my stories, and then one day I get some inspiration randomly, and I'm good to go again. And that did happen, closer to mid-2012. I had Cat's chapter all finished and half of Sinjin's (oh, right, spoiler alert if you never guessed that the eighth patient was Sinjin), and then IT happened. My laptop went up in smoke and everything was gone. Every single piece of work I'd ever written was gone - most importantly, a huge, monster of a fic I had been writing for months and months (I called it my baby, because it meant so much to me and I had been working for so long on it) had just vanished into thin air - and I honestly felt like I'd been stabbed in the chest. After that, I lost my desire to write. I just couldn't bring myself to, because it hurt too much. So all of my stories became abandoned, and I was inactive on FF for awhile. So in this writing depression for me, WAMH became neglected and unfinished, and I can't apologize enough for that.
So, what's going to be happening? Well. After not writing for a long time, I missed it bunches, and I realized that I had to let go of what had happened and just put it behind me so that I could do what I loved again. So, I started writing one-shots and experimenting with different writing techniques to really develop my style as a writer, and improving my way of writing, because it wasn't that great before. Now that I've become more comfortable with writing FF again, and now that I feel more secure in my writing style (even though I think I'm even more critical over my work now than I was when I majorly sucked at writing), I've come to the decision that I think it's time, and that I'm able to update WAMH. I'm already halfway done with Cat's chapter and so far, I love it, BUT before I post it, some major and some minor changes are going to go underway. I was looking back through the story and rereading it, and I realized that hey, wow, I really love my original concept, and some ideas I had going on, but I hate the way I wrote a lot of it. So, I'm going to take down all of the chapters thus far and re-edit all of them, and definitely rewrite parts of them, and add things in - I may even end up rewriting an entire chapter if I decide I hate it. So keep that in mind after reading this, because I mean, dude, I'm not the boss of you, but I think you should all just reread it again as I re-post instead of just reading Cat's chapter when I post it. I think you're all going to like it at least a little bit better, hopefully. I've already rewritten the prologue (and I've added a cover image, yay!) and am going to post it with this, and I'm working on all the other chapters as quickly as possible so that I can post them, finish Cat's and post her's, and continue on with the story.
Jeez, I talk too much, sorry. Thank you for your time and patience, I love you all so, so dearly. Look for the re-posted chapters soon, I promise most of them will be up within the next week. Arrivederci!
-Kaitlyn