The Singer Saga: The Second Time

by Jael Rainer

For over two thousand years the queen of Greenwood, the Singer of Legend that even the bards sing songs of, has been gone. But when another of her kind appears in Middle Earth how will she affect the quest for Erebor and Smaug? Will it end the same way as it always has before? And is the Queen a ghost haunting her? Follows the one-shots immeadiatly after Songs of Eru.

16. AN: Blood on the Page

Authors notes:

Now I want to cry.

For all of you who have been following my latest author notes, you have undoubtedly seen my notes on my computer problems. Well, I got it back today finally. All of my stories, all of my notes, all of my snippets, all of my character profiles, everything is gone. For all of my stories. Current, future, past, everything. Even just the random ideas about stories I had just been jotting down ideas for. Every single thing is gone. Maybe it can be salvaged but at this point, it's hurting to get my hopes up again. So after I have a very hard cry, I will try to rebuild. But honestly, it will probably take me time. I told all of you I was behind in my banking of stories, and for fully written chapters that's true. But I had notes and arcs for the three full stories in The Singer Saga and The Mariners Series was entirely mapped out. Everything I had written for New Directions and Letters is gone.

So yeah. I fully expect to spend time grieving before I begin rebuilding. Writing for me isn't just a hobby, it's how I stay sane. And to have the worlds I've built or added to disappear? I'm grieving for my sanity and pieces of my heart.

And no, that is not overly dramatic. Any who are artists of any kind will understand. And if you are not (hi lost soul who won't sign in so I can reply to your ill-conceived reviews... Please learn that a story that has elves, trolls, brownies, demons, gods, half-elves, people who can control fire, and people of various pigmentation is not based on real-life and I can twist the mythology any way that works because they aren't real... Also thank you for your correction about my word usage. I will correct it when I salvage all of my stories from the nether realms.) you may not be able to understand it but as a writer, or an artist of any kind really, we don't use pen and paper or whatever our medium is to create for our readers or viewers or listeners. We bleed into our art for you. You may not like it or consider it good in any way, but to have the guts to actually post? Actually showing it to you? That alone demands respect. We may in fact be terrible at our art, but we still bled onto our "page" for you to see.

So please respect our bleeding. Leave a comment if you want. Even give criticism. But let it be with respect for the blood someone poured out for you. Honor that.

I would like to thank all of you in advance for sticking with me. Much love to all.

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Much Love

JR