Oops it's been like 7 months. (Read: previous statement made ~October '19, and then I put this update off 3 more months until the new year.)
So the long and short of things is that mental illness is a whole-ass bitch. I have worked on actually writing Chapter 14 all of, like, one time since uploading Chapter 13. What a chapter that was that I realized I lost all my previous audience on lmao
The plan back then was for me to organize everything I had written down before continuing on to the second major portion of the fic. I've worked on that like... once. Again, oops. However, I have continuously encountered inspiration for not just this but other story ideas. The importance of this is heavy, as within the last week I came up with a vast, VAST improvement to a major scene down the line, as well as the fallout of said scene, that will make things less stilted. (And now this example was 3 months ago in October instead of just now and I'm STILL coming up with new and better stuff). Trust me, as much as I or any other of the select fans of this work want to actually see more chapters up, there is no harm in this being put off. I just do not stop thinking of stuff, and the amount of time it takes for me to get to writing will only improve the story.
As I've said, I am not going to just stop this unless something catastrophic happens. The works of fiction I'm crafting in my head are my only real long-term goals right now. They are what will define me as a person by the time 2030 rolls around. Improvements on the story overall are constantly being thought of, from tiny to massive. I have no ETA on another chapter since I do 100% want to organize all my notes and make a timeline. Much as I enjoyed writing Chapters 1-13, I had far less direction trying to build an introduction to the fic, whereas I have loads and loads of small and medium bits and scenes which will go between major plot points from here on out.
I don't really talk about the fic much in public so while there are places I am around online, there's nowhere specific I'd point anyone towards because you run the risk of finding out more about me than most would want to, ahaha. I guess the only thing I have to say for the moment is to stay tuned, and when writing happens, it happens.
So yeah uh long story short I haven't been writing but I basically never stop thinking of this stuff. Even thought of MORE improvements to a big scene this morning, the first night of the decade. Oh yeah and this will all be working towards an original story incorporating a lot of the original stuff from this fic while obviously not ripping blatant DDLC things off... but that comes later. Like way later. And also I'll be making tiny personal changes (mostly better formatting) from the previous chapters probably at some point. Toodles~