Secrets

by Redtail53

"In all secrets there is a kind of guilt ... for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion and evasion means a problem to the moral kind." – Gilbert Parker. John Sheppard realized his life was never going to be the same... and he wasn't sure how he felt about it. Season 3 sometime between Real World and Common Ground.

21. UPDATE (NEED INPUT)

Hi friends! It's currently 1:30 am, but I wanted to put this out here.

I'm alive!

And I'm writing.

The last two years have been, well. Not easy. That aside, I've beat my writer's block into submission.

Secrets and Perfect both have new covers.

And Secrets has been getting some behind the scenes love. Some of these can already be seen on AO3, mostly odd formatting things and some lore that's been changed around or baleeted sometime during the last two years.

Act 2 is still being written. I have 2 and half chapters left to write.

Act 3 is loosely planned, and there's now 4 Acts total.

However. I have an issue that's been bugging me.

The state of Secrets on is a mess. Reviews from the very first version are here, and you can't comment on the same chapter twice, so some of you can't even leave feedback on the new chapters if you've left one on the old chapters.

And I gotta admit. Starting fresh would be really nice, and would give the story a fresh coat of paint as it were.

But. There's history here too. History that I've been looking back at and smiling cause no matter how bad the original version was (and let's be real: it was pretty awful) you guys left amazing, encouraging reviews that have honestly kept me writing all these years, through depression and writer's block, and whatever else is going on.

The options are:
A: Leave it as is, clean up what I can, but post the rest here.
B: Leave this story, mark it complete and OLD and repost all new chapters in a new "story".

What B means: This story as it is stays the same. But it will not be continued here. I would repost it fresh, all the way up to the current chapters in one go. (Possibly the rest of Act 2, I make no promises. I gotta finish it and it's gotta be beta'd first.) Old readers would be able to post reviews and not be hindered by FF's wonky review posting.

So. I leave it to you guys.

Leave a review and tell me what you would like to see. If you can't leave a review, PM me, or leave a guest review.

Thanks guys!
And I hope you are all staying safe out there!

- Jess