An update for my readers:

Dear Friends,

Thank you so much for sticking with this story as long as you have. I appreciate all of the messages and reviews I've received regarding my work, and I couldn't be happier with the responses.

I felt it unfair to let another month pass without telling you all something.

Believe me, I know what this sounds like. Or reads like. Whatever.

It sounds like I'm about to tell you I'm abandoning the story.

I'm not.

And now it's going to sound like a list of excuses.

I'm not going to lie and say I haven't had time to write. I have. It's not that I haven't had the hours, or the computer, or the plot.

What I've lacked is the drive.

To be honest, I haven't wanted to write for a while. I've been really down on myself about my ability; I've never thought of myself as a "great" writer, but until the past year I've at least believed myself to be a "good" one.

Frankly, depression sucks.

The drive is coming back to me. Slowly, but it is coming back. A few sentences here, a paragraph there. It's getting stronger.

This story will be finished. Soon.

I know it's been a while. Years, in fact.

But I would never give up on this story. And I hope you haven't either.

-Tweek-23