Dear Readers,
I want to apologize for basically disappearing off the face of the Earth. I know you all were expecting to receive a notification about La Fille de Son Père being on deviantART, like, a year or so ago. Believe me, I haven't been lazy—or, at least, I haven't been as lazy as I'm sure you all think I have been. I have written… but it hasn't been in as consistent a manner as I might have hoped. For some amount of time, my writing (and my motivation to write) has really been doing a peak-and-valley rollercoaster-esque… thing. I used to be at the point where if I wasn't motivated to write, I wasn't motivated for quite some time. But now I actually want to write on a much more consistent basis! Yay me.
Anyway, now on to the whole point of this note. After coming up with not only one, but two more incarnations of the Phantom's Daughter series, I've decided that I'm pretty much going to abandon La Fille de Son Père and instead work on these new incarnations. And let me tell you something, guys—I thought La Fille de Son Père was going to be awesome and I thought I was excited about writing it. And maybe it would have been had I been motivated enough to continue writing it instead of deciding to start scribbling down these two new incarnations. But if I thought La Fille de Son Père was going to be good, then these two incarnations are going to be absolutely incredible. And if I was excited about writing La Fille de Son Père and sharing it with you guys, then I'm abso-freakin'-lutely enthusiastic about doing such with these incarnations! And since I can't decide which incarnation I really prefer (since I like them both for their own reasons), I'm going to write and post both of them.
I don't know what either incarnation is going to be entitled, but I can tell you that both of them are going to be a totally different ballgame from the Phantom's Daughter series. Each story will be dark and angsty the vast majority of the time (I've grown into such an angst-lover; I feel like putting my characters through Hell gives them such better development). And I feel as if they're both so much more original than the Phantom's Daughter series! (Especially The Phantom's Daughter… which I now feel is not much more than gender-switching Phantom. I disgust myself thinking about it.)
I could go on and on and explain the differences between the incarnations to you, but why do that when I could just let you read them?
Now, hear this. It will take time for me to upload these incarnations. I've already started on both of them, but I'm more ahead on one than I am on the other (I've already begun putting one incarnation in chapter form, while the other is still in the excerpting stage). And one of the incarnations (the one which is still in the excerpting stage) is an extension of my boyfriend's fan fiction (no, he hasn't posted it yet; I'm pretty sure he doesn't even have an FFN account as of yet), so until it's complete, I can't begin uploading it. It's also going to take time because I'm now going to begin following a rule where I don't begin uploading a story until most or all of the story has been written in chapter form. I know that probably makes you all cringe a little, considering how long both stories in the Phantom's Daughter series are, but it will ultimately be to everyone's benefit—you all won't have to wait such a long time for an update, since this method will allow me to upload on a very regular basis (monthly or bi-monthly, most likely) and I won't have to feel guilty for being so lacking in updates.
So here are your notification options:
If you're interested in knowing about the incarnation which is based solely on my work, just put me on Author Alert (it'll be a lot easier than relying on me to remember to notify you personally) and wait as patiently as you can!
If you're interested in knowing about the incarnation which is an extension of my boyfriend's fan fiction (and you want to read his fan fiction before reading my incarnation), let me know via PM and I will notify each of you personally when he's begun uploading the fan fiction.
If you're interested in both incarnations (which includes being interested in my boyfriend's fan fiction), put me on Author Alert and let me know via PM so I can notify each of you personally when my boyfriend has begun uploading his fan fiction.
If you're interested in both incarnations (which does not include being interested in my boyfriend's fan fiction), just put me on Author Alert.
Oh, a word about my boyfriend—as a writer; I won't make you all jealous by telling you how marvelous he is… tee-hee. Fear not, he is a legitimately good writer. And I'm not biased. I was reading his stuff before we were dating and I enjoyed it just as much then as I do now.
Anyway, the long note is now over. Thank you all so much for how much patience you've had (if you have any more at this point; ha ha), and I promise you it'll be worth it if you start reading one (or both) of the incarnations once they start getting uploaded! They're going to be so incredible and I'm so excited about them!
Your obedient servant, friend, and authoress,
LovetheScottishAngel
