Distilled Dreams

by k0h-darkblade

Dreams hopelessly shattered two mammals eventually come together and go through fire and pain to become something new. M rated for language, adult situation, etc. I am going to be playing pretty heavy with the canon so expect a fair amount of AU elements. A slow burn. It's been a while since I've written so it may be slow somewhat rough start.

10. Chapter 10

Chapter: Null

So I bet all of you with the update alerts on for this story where cringing at the word count on this 'chapter' especially considering how significantly smaller it is and with how long it has been since an update. As some of you may have feared I have one of those good news, bad news, and meh news announcements to make.

First the good news: As some of you you may have read in a couple of commit threads on Ao3 from a couple of great people who where checking in I am still alive and haven't forgotten or abandoned the story. I do feel I owe an explanation for my long absence is needed and part of why I am posting this announcement.

Between the back to back holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years; the ongoing COVID restrictions, gathering limitations, and work around so while not face to face I could still spend some time with my family over the holidays; and that I work in the medical field so the last and first month of the year are just crazy with patients rushing to use up every last drop of their insurance plans then figuring out the new ones I pretty much had to leave the story untouched since a bit before thanksgiving.

Now that the extra craziness is mostly over I had a chance to turn back to the story. To re-familiarize myself with it and get it fresh in my mind again I read it over a few times, read the bit that I had written on chapter ten, and then though all of my notes. When I was finished and thought about everything I cringed and come to the bad news part.

The bad news: I am freezing the story as it stand and will, in time, delete this iteration of it. It is not a decision I come to lightly but it is better to do it now before it gets any larger. The biggest error (I know the grammar, spelling, and those damn auto correct errors are bad enough to warrant a few dozen editing sweeps on their own) was the time skip and the side stories. I skipped out too much time to advance to a different point in the plot out of impatience on my part that then was forcing me to shove information in as almost an after thought instead of something more organic. The side stories, while fun, just didn't tie in and integrate well.

The meh news: I am currently rewriting the story form the beginning. There will be major formatting changes and plot tweaks/shifts that will make it next to impossible to just replace the chapters as they are finished into the existing posting hence why the current iteration is frozen and will be deleted in time. One thing I am going to do is limit my chapter size so I will have to split the larger chapters as they are being written. Once I have a good sized back log of completed chapters I will begin posting on a regular schedule. Hopefully by then I will have also found someone who will help with beta reading.

So there you have it folks. Hopefully you will stick around for the rewrite but no hard feeling if you don't. I don't have a time line of when the rewrite will start dropping but am going to do my damnedest to carve out at least an hour on a working-day to dedicate to writing and more on the off-days.