Updated: August 1st, 2014

Wow. It's been a year and half since I've updated my profile and way, way longer than that since I've written anything. Between work and life I just continuously haven't found the time to write. I kept thinking that maybe on this break or the next one, I'll finally have time to do any hobby I enjoy. But every opportunity keeps passing me by and for one reason or another I haven't been able to get back to writing during any of them.

A year an a half ago, the last time I updated this profile, I said that I'd definitely continue Cheated Hearts. I still mean that. Since the last update oh so long ago, I have written tiny little bits. However, I'm feeling incredibly rusty when it comes to writing and I honestly haven't liked most of what I've added (there's been a lot of deleting on my part). I do still fully intend to finish it at some point though. I'd like to say that I'll have more time this school year, but at this point saying that wouldn't even be optimistic of me, it'd be unrealistic. A lot of the time I actually enjoy that my job completely consumes my life. I've been lucky to have consistently fabulous students and I love the ever changing challenges that being a teacher provides me with, but it would be nice to have time to sleep and indulge my hobbies. I'm hoping to somehow find more time for a life this year, but realistically I know that I'll just have to work out a way to incorporate sleeping more and hobbies into my already overly busy schedule. If you're here because you were interested in an update, please keep your fingers crossed for one of the two outcomes of the previous sentence.

As I mentioned, I'm feeling quite rusty when it comes to writing. So at the moment I'm trying to force myself to write anything that comes to mind in hope that I can get back into the swing of things. When I finally start posting Cheated Hearts again, I don't want anyone who reads to be able to distinguish the place where I stopped writing three years ago and started writing now. At the moment, I feel like that place is really obvious. So I'm going to indulge some other ships for a bit and maybe try and finish up some stories long stored on my hard drive, and then I'm hoping that writing Cheated Hearts won't feel so awkward, because I'd hate to ruin it after all this time.

For those of you who have written to me about Cheated Hearts in the last few years, thank you so much for letting me know you'd still be interested in reading. You have no idea how much it means to me to know that anyone even remembers it, let alone is interested in seeing it to its end even after all this time. I promise that I will eventually finish, it's just a matter of finding the time (and not ruining with terrible writing, which is a serious worry at the moment).

Anyone who's reading, thank you for reading!

Sincerely,

Sarah

On a side note:

Read my early work at your own risk. I hate to delete any stories because the review were so kind and meant so much to me, but, truly, they are quite rough.