So, first thing first, I apologise, but this is not a new chapter.
I write this in answer to a review that postulated this story was dead. Now as a few of you know, I normally answer those directly, but this was a guest review and I also realise not everyone who might still have interest in this story would send a message asking what's going on.
So let me say that this story isn't dead and explain the long radio silence on my part.
I had a big breakdown last year, one that ended up with me drifting off just about everything in my life, including writing. By the time I started pulling my head together, I'll admit this story was very low on my list of urgent stuff to fix in my life and the writing groove still hadn't come back.
It took months for a few friends to convince me that I shouldn't give up on posting what I considered to be messes of words that shouldn't be inflicted on anyone. And, surprise, people actually liked my new story and the more involved system of spacebattles helped me gain some confidence in my stuff thanks to interaction with the readers.
And thus I came back to Sapphire Snake, full of determination and motivation and was faced with two things.
First, all the further writing I had on it, including my objective chart, dated from before I migrated to Google Docs and thus had been deleted by FFnet three months into my drifting. I'll admit it left me quite salty.
Second, I started to write this story when I was sixteen and it shows. Compared to my current standards of quality and the fantastic work my new beta readers do to help me, Sapphire Snake is quite simply a let down in term of execution.
Still, I still love to write this story, I still love the readers behind the usernames and I want to do justice by both. So I'm going to ask if you guys can give me a little more patience that I don't deserve while I try to retread old ground and fix the flaws of this story.
And, if you feel like giving me a hand, then don't hesitate to mercilessly point out the flaws you see in this story, preferably with an account so I can discuss them with you, but I won't begrudge guest reviews.
Once again, sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for all the support I've gotten up to now. I love you guys and I love the adventure we're on.
