Hey everyone!
Yeah, so, it's been over a year hasn't it? Since I posted on this website, that is. Not to say I no longer do fanfiction, I still do. I'm very active over on A03 but...ok, here's a story for you.
A year ago.
If anyone was following this story then, do remember how I was having laptop trouble? I know I put some stuff about it in the sign off and in the heading notes. Like, my computer shut down and I had to get it repaired and all this stuff. Well. That had some after affects. After the chapter 'Nightmare Forest' I had I'd say around six, close to seven, chapters of prewritten material.
We're talking at least 20,000 words of content if not more, starting up with continuing the battle between Phoenix Labs and the newly homeless Myths. But then, my computer decided to reboot while I was working on the story.
And I lost everything.
My digital plot point list *Because, let's face it, after the beginnings I stopped writing my plot points in my notebook and copied them down into the document on pages* all of the content all the way back to the chapter where Emil gets stuck in Lilli's apartment! All of it! Gone! Poof!
So, well...here's the thing. I don't WANT to give up on this story. But after I lost all my work for it, I was just so angry that I sort of rage quit and started writing over on A03 to try and calm my nerves. I planned to return to the story in a month or two, after all my irritation from the loss of my work had chilled out. I couldn't work on Fugitive, it just made me get all angry and irritated with having to rewrite all of those ideas all over again, and I didn't enjoy it. Thoughts that had come to me during the first go around had vanished, I wasn't sure if I was missing something that was there before, and without my plot point list I couldn't check back to my original ideas like I normally do.
Eventually I restructured my plot point list from what I DID have in my notebook, but by then I'd gotten wrapped up in the Haikyuu! fandom, writing some A/B/O stuff, and this story just sort of faded out. Then I started getting reviews again. Zaaze, Vendani, Madame Pomme, Animadow, Anesthesia. Not to mention a good handful of guest readers. All you guys brought my attention back over here again, to a story I'd all but given up on ever completing.
So, I started trying again. It was slow going, and I mean, like, REALLY slow going, because I haven't done anything in the Hetalia fandom is over a year *yeah, you might have noticed* but I really love this story. I spent so much of my time fleshing it out and working on it, and even though I lost so much work I've finally managed to completely rebuild my plot point list, and I've officially started work on the 35th chapter. A whole three paragraphs of it. Don't hold me to my old updating schedule, or my old chapter lengths, and don't be surprised if after this I go silent again, but I swear on Holy Rome's grave that I'm going to do my absolute best to finish this story.
Ok? I really mean it.
So yeah. Thanks for holding out hope when I'd all but lost it, everyone. I hope to see you in the sign off room after chapter 35 really soon!
-Amethyst