Oh Lord, I'm expecting to get a lot of flak over this, but before you write out a scathing review, hear me out, okay? Please.
Unfortunately, I'm putting this thing on hiatus for an unknown amount of time, not because of writer's block this time, but because of a physical issue. Long story short, I'm legally blind in my left eye and my vision is failing because of a congenital cataract in my right.
Short story long, I was born with a cataract in both eyes; two surgeries in an attempt to fix my left eye, which was worse off at the time, proved futile because I failed to patch it properly. I was seven, and you can't get seven year olds to do anything you ask. Anyway, my right eye has always been dominant, always will be, but after weeks of difficulty seeing, I finally contacted our optometrist to figure out what's going on.
Remember when I said I was born with cataracts in both eyes? Yeah, the one in my right is still there because it wasn't an issue twelve years ago. I guess they didn't expect it to become an issue? Either way, it's an issue now and I'm kinda occupied with making sure I don't go blind on both sides. I have an appointment with my opthalmologist (someone who operates on eyes) next week, so let's hope for the best.
Right now, I can hardly make out the words on my computer screen without straining my eyes; on a handheld device (i.e. phone, tablet), I can hold it closer to my face and make out the text and pictures on the screen better. Before you ask, writing out this 500-word author's note on my tablet is bad enough, much less writing out a 10k word chapter.
I wish I was kidding about this. I know I said y'all can kill me or whatever if I don't get chapter ten up in a month (?), but blame the unforeseen circumstances, not me. Like I could've seen this coming a month ago, y'all, I'm not a Sapphire, I don't have Future Vision. I'm an Emerald. Obviously.
Alright, let's just wrap this up. Real life decided it would f*** me over because of course it did. Like I said, I'll see an opthalmologist next week to get something done about this and then I'll go from there. Please don't hate me, or eat me, or teleport into my bedroom and hit me with a cast-iron frying pan. I'll try to update as soon as I'm able, but for now, I think remedying this issue is more important; I know you folks probably believe otherwise, but we clearly have very different priorities.
That's all for now.