***FROM THE AUTHOR TO YOU, MY LOYAL READERS WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE STORY**

As you may have noticed, it's been nearly two years since I've updated Ghost Daughter. Believe me, I am more aware of this than anyone. The basic problem was that I got stuck on a chapter, then a lot of conflicting ideas for other related fics popped into my head, and I had plans for other chapters that had to be delayed; yada yada yada, blah blah blah, on and on and on, etc. etc. etc. and so on and so forth.

Therefore, I have made the decision—and please don't hate me—to discontinue this version of Ghost Daughter. I simply got completely stuck, and then there was no way to progress with the format I had written it. Honestly, the more I look at it now, the less and less satisfied I am with it, mostly due to some inconsistencies and grammatical errors. (Also, parts of Karen's ghost outfit were based on clothes I had before losing a lot of weight, so I didn't really want to go there.) As much as I love this story, I have to discontinue this version.

Yes, I said THIS version. I am not going to abandon this story. In fact, I am going to do just the opposite.

I decided a few months ago to participate in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month): write a novel, 50,000 words or more, in 30 days (aka the month of November). I had a bunch of ideas in mind, but none of them were good enough, and the ones that were good enough weren't well-formed enough to do anything with them. Then, just two days ago, I found a notebook in which I had written rough drafts of a future chapter of Ghost Daughter. That was when I realized: this was it. The answer to all of my problems—NaNoWriMo, my struggle with Ghost Daughter—had been sitting right in front of me the whole time.

During the month of November, I am going to be doing an extreme makeover of Ghost Daughter.

The story is mostly going to be focused on Karen, of course, and it will still keep her POV in the first person. However, I am going to be adding flashbacks and POV's from other main characters. We will get to see how Sam got pregnant (no, it's not disgusting or violent, don't get that into your heads), see the aftereffects of her leaving, and see Karen's story from other people in her life. It will be an examination of Karen's story through both her eyes and the eyes of others. (Hers, though, will be the only POV told in the first person; everyone else's POV will be told in the third person because I wanted to keep that element of immediacy and personal experience on her part.)

Obviously, it will have to go through some editing: some stuff will be cut out, other stuff will be added in its place, and then of course the expansion and flashbacks and jumping through time, blah blah blah. Some of your favorite parts may be cut; however, I don't know and don't want to know which parts you want me to keep, otherwise it might influence me in one direction and ruin my objectivity on the matter—or what objectivity can be retained from reworking your own story. But the essence of the story, once I am done, will still be there. Even if it isn't, a new essence might give it some depth, and hopefully a nicer one.

This will not go through right away: I have to work on it through the month of November, because that's how NaNoWriMo works and I would prefer to have some time to work on it anyway. What I can promise you is that once I am done editing it, it will be posted up on this website as a new story; most likely, I'll be publishing it Ghost Daughter Redux for differentiation's sake, but please think of it as Ghost Daughter. If all goes well, this should be sometime between mid-December and early January.

This is not an empty promise; I have already nearly completed the prologue. I actually shouldn't be typing this notice because I need to work, but I felt that, with new people watching this story, it had to be this way. Please don't hate me for this. This is something I need to do for the sake of the story and—frankly—so that I won't feel crazy and guilt-ridden anymore. If this whole concept goes against the rules for NaNoWriMo, I couldn't care less because I'm doing it anyway.

I very much hope that you support me on this matter. If all goes well, it will be a better story for it. Thank you so much for being here, and for adding this story to your favorites, and for watching this story, and for inspiring me to work on this. I promise that this will be a much better story when this is over; or even if it isn't, at least it will be something new and exciting. Thank you all so much. See you in December/January!