Hey guys. I know you've been waiting for another chapter of this story for, like, two years. And I know that this isn't the update that you were looking for.
But it is, with a heavy heart, that I have to announce that I'm going to cancel Mid-Childan Lyrical Party.
I've tried to write this story multiple times, but nothing I write would even work. Even the parts that teased Nanoha/Fate didn't work either.
And I suppose...I suppose the reason for that is because I've never been a NanoFate shipper. I've always seen them as good friends, and personally I think that it's a bit of an overexposed pairing. Don't get me wrong-I'm not hating on the people who like NanoFate, or who ship it ardently. I respect them and their stories-there are some good ones out there. But I've never really seen them as more than just friends. Even so, I pushed aside my own feelings on the pairing to stick to what canon said and tried to put it in, because even though I'm not a NanoFate shipper, I respect what canon said about them. But trying to write it felt weird and unnatural to me. I still tried to anyway, despite how weird it felt to me.
And then I realized why I was doing it. I was doing it to pander to the audience, because it seems like you have to write about NanoFate to get any recognition in the fandom. I was doing the one thing that I never want to do, which was to try to do what everyone else was doing. I never had any problem with Dear Nanoha Fans, since it was more about how the characters being portrayed by the fans. But trying to bring shipping into it only made it hard for me to write, since not only did it feel weird writing NanoFate, but I was also wondering about what others would think. And that's brought on some unnecessary stress.
So to save all that, I'm going to cancel the story. I'm really sorry to have to do this to you guys, since I know you've all been waiting for the next chapter, but I just can't bring myself to write something I'm not a fan of. If you'd like to take on the story, then by all means send me a PM and I'll send it off to you.
See you around,
iheartgod175
