I am writing this note at a ridiculously late hour, so I apologize in advance for anything that seems out of place or doesn't make sense and for anyone who got their hopes up thinking that this is an update. I don't usually do this, my only exception is my Q and A chapter that I wrote in Laws of Timing, but I feel like I owed it to my readers to explain where my head is at.

I will be the first to own up to how badly I've been at updating my stories, since I started around a year ago. I've pushed myself beyond the point of sanity when it comes to my studies and it has been an incredibly difficult school year. There have been moments where I've honestly been ready to completely drop out of school or give up on my major altogether. And, my writing has definitely suffered for it.

Writing is something that I've done my entire life, before I could even actually form letters. I don't think I would have survived my childhood or my adolescence without books and without the worlds that I was able to create in my head. It's something that I will keep doing, even if no one ever reads anything that I write.

But, I don't have any grand illusions that I could make a living off it, which is why I'm still in school. I love nursing; I love learning about how the human body works and I love knowing that I've made a difference in someone else's life. It was a career that chose me, rather than me choosing it, but it's, also, a career with a lot of responsibilities and expectations.

I'm not denying that we want people who know what they're doing in the medical field, but the stance that a lot of teachers take of actively trying to make you quit, makes me incredibly sad. I don't know who's to blame here, but what these, "Hard Core," teachers are actually doing is asking their students to give up their compassion, their sensitivity, and their empathy and become something hardened that can regurgitate medical facts, without recognizing that people are more than their symptoms and more than their ailments. The fact that I have professors who will be fired, if a certain number of their students do not fail their classes, seems like an incredibly backwards system to me.

And, that's what I've been up against this last year. It's been a lot of frustration, hours and hours of studying, and a lot of questioning of what I'm supposed to do with my life. On top of that, the school that I'm at has had their nursing program pretty much fall apart this last semester and I've realized that I'm probably going to have to transfer schools. So, I've been a stressed out nightmare, who thankfully has a family that's willing to sit through my mental breakdowns and remind me why I'm doing this in the first place.

I started watching Girl Meets World, like a lot of people, because of nostalgia. I grew up on Cory, Topanga, and Shawn, and getting a chance to revisit my childhood, was a pretty wonderful escape. The fact that I found Riley and her friends incredibly relatable was what led me into trying to write them. Their stories were often things that I'd experienced myself and, so, it was pretty natural for me to guess where they'd end up.

Writing Laws of Motion, I would watch episodes over and over again, in an effort to try and capture the character's voices. I haven't been able to do that these last few months and, so, I worry in my writing how true I'm staying to who these characters are. It's one thing to know the plot, but it's another to try and stick with the essence of who they are. And that's one reason why updates have been so spread apart, as I try to make sure that all of their voices are right.

The good news is that I'm cutting back my workload this summer. The problem with knowing exactly where you want to go in life, is that it's easy to try and take the quickest route to getting there and I've realized that it's time to slow down and enjoy the journey. I'm, actually, not taking any science classes this summer and I'm taking just one class in the fall, which means that I'm going to have some real time to spend with my first love. I'd like to get Heat Stroke and Laws of Timing finished up before I start fall semester and the length of Infamy is going to depend a lot on how many people will stick with me through it.

Infamy is kind of a dive into the great AU, OOC unknown and I knew that it was a gamble of whether anyone would actually read it when I started. There was a lot behind it, but there was definitely a part of me that looked at all of the stories coming out where one of them had become famous, or they were all spies, or the characters were being placed into another show or movie (90% of the time these stories were Lucaya, too, but I'm not going to delve into my thoughts on that) and I wanted to do something that incorporated the intrigue behind these situations, but painted them in a realistic light. Relationships that are put under the strain of public scrutiny have a very hard time lasting and the fame that we're all fascinated with, comes with a cost that I haven't seen written in the way that I'd like to see it covered. I've done some pretty extensive research into Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, Jacqueline Kennedy and their significant others for this story and I hope that it's something that is as captivating as exploring these themes has been for me. Also, I figured that this story has a pretty unique premise that I haven't actually seen done here before.

Anyway, my point is that I haven't abandoned these stories. I would like to someday tackle an original piece of fiction and probably try and publish it through Amazon, but I haven't found an idea, yet, or the characters that are going to drive that particular venture. For now, I'm happy borrowing these characters and writing here.

I'm at a point, where I'll guarantee that these three stories will be finished, but my continued writing in this world is really up to my readers and their willingness to continue reading (And commenting on) what I write. I know that there's a good chance that the show cancellation will lead to all of us moving on to something else, but I'm not ready to let go of it, yet, and my hope is that neither are you.

Thanks to everyone that has ever reviewed, favorited, followed, and/or read one of my stories. Being able to put my writing out there and see that there are actually people who are willing to read it and who enjoy my writing style, has been huge in my development as a writer. You've given me the confidence and the motivation to keep pushing through writer's block and my crazy life to continue writing.

So, let me get through my last final for the semester and I promise that I will sit down and spend some serious time finishing up my, "In progress," chapters and getting them out to you. Thank you for your patience with me and for your continued support. And, if there's anything that you'd like to see in my stories or in a one-shot let me know and I'll look at trying to incorporate it.

Thanks Again,

Poledra182