Hi. I know this is posted some hours later than usual and it isn't the chapter you're looking for, but I was deliberating on whether I'd put my head down and try to work or come forward and say something. So I'm saying something: Twilight Princess is almost done. I have perhaps 20k words left to write, and then it's done and dusted.

There's only one small problem: life.

Ever since August, I've had birthdays, trips, parties, the illness and death of pets, a noisy and disruptive work environment, the start of the school year, workmen installing an entirely new heating system in my house (which took weeks), and what I suspect was the flu. I ran out of buffer back in summer and never managed to catch up, and have been just barely squeaking by each week, and I feel that's affected the quality of things. Being the stay-at-home parent and homemaker is a lot more time consuming than one would think, and if I have to choose between helping my son with his homework and working on my own personal project, you can pretty much guess what wins out.

When I started this project back in spring of 2021, we were still slogging through the dog days of the pandemic. People were home more, scheduled less in-person events, and overall had more free time on their hands. I was playing World of Warcraft: Classic for about seven or eight hours a day, which I wouldn't be able to do now even if I wasn't working on writing. My son was also in fifth grade, and the jump in workload between fifth and sixth grade is pretty hefty, so he needs some assistance.

You can tell I had more free time just this past spring because I started a second fic, Wither. I love Breath of the Wild and kind of wanted to do my own novelization, but I don't think I could write one without having it turn out like the one by TheZedOfAges (which is fantastic, by the way. Go read it on Ao3), so I decided to write an overly-dramatic romance for fun. That was short-lived and I haven't touched the damn thing since May, and it's really rough and unpolished. I can only spend so much time writing a week, and doing somewhere between 15k to 30k words a week is plenty enough to do, without adding more to that. Sometimes I can only manage about 10k words due to y'know...life. Adulting. Things humans do.

So this is where I say that I do not know when I will update Twilight Princess, at least not pin down a specific post date. I'm not giving myself a hard deadline as I try to get the pacing right in these last two chapters, and focus on getting things right instead of simply getting things done. I'm not bailing on this, not even close! I'm also not burnt out, and I still have lots of ideas swimming in my head for the next thing I'll be working on, and I haven't been able to get down in notes yet. I just need more time to work, and considering that I've written nearly three complete books in a year and a half, I'd say I've earned that extra time.

I'll delete this letter once things are finished and I'm satisfied with what I have, and then I'll resume that weekly update schedule for the remaining two chapters. Until then, I ask for your patience. Thank you.

-Beth