All right, this author's note concerns Do I Have To Cry For You? and what will be happening to it very soon. Everything written below is extremely important, and I would advise that you read every single word. Ready? Okay.
Do I Have To Cry For You? is the sequel to my other story, Lord Knows I Can't Change, and was posted on October 24, 2003. It was last updated June 27, 2004, and today is March 28, 2005. So as you can see, this particular story hasn't been the most simple to write, and while I have notebooks filled with pages of outlines, timelines and plot ideas, I'm beginning to have my doubts on whether or not this story will ever be concluded. Things were going smoothly until I arrived at chapter four, "Scars That Bleed", and that was when the first of the writer's block hit me. As you all may remember, I went at least two or so months before finally updating in January of 2004, and then another two or so months passed for the "surgery" that I had to do to chapter four, and then yet another two or so months passed between updates. The chapters beyond chapter three are short, chalky, and just not a pleasure to read. They are not very well written, and I apologize for ever posting such horrid work.
Lord Knows I Can't Change was a lot more well-thought-out than Do I Have To Cry For You, and I think it shows. The purpose of Do I Have To Cry For You? was to finish all of what Lord Knows I Can't Change did not, and I somehow lost sight of that during my time spent on it. Looking back on it now, though, I realize that I left out a good percentage of everything that I wanted to include when I started it nearly two years ago; for example, a flashback scene explaining how Bootstrap/William arrived back at Isla de Muerta after being thrown overboard by Barbossa to save Jack Sparrow's life in chapter sixteen of Lord Knows I Can't Change. I also did not explain Captain Seth Graves significance to the story-line very well; I did not emphasis on just how important he really is, and the same goes with Miguel. I basically just threw Seth into the mix and had Will figure, "Oh, hey, my dad knows this dude!" Originally, at the conclusion of Lord Knows I Can't Change when I was still gathering ideas for its sequel, I was going to write an introduction on Captain Seth Graves, but that never came to pass.
Bottom-line, folks, I'm proud of Lord Knows I Can't Change, but not of Do I Have To Cry For You?. I want to rewrite it, and I'm going to attempt to rewrite it, but God only knows when and if I will be successful. Until then, though, I will leave the original version up on for any and all to read, and if I do ever rewrite it, I will remove the old version completely and replace it with the new version. If fate has it that I can't rewrite it, though, I will post a summary on how I planned on ending the story, and then lay Do I Have To Cry For You? down to rest.
I'll try, folks, I really will, but don't get your hopes up that my tries will be successful.
Thanks for reading this and for reading my work. If you want to contact me, please go here: http: and either drop me a comment in the latest public post marked Readers…", or check out my user-info for my screen name's/email address.
I will keep you all posted on what comes to pass!
Liz
And now to make this post legal, I will post what a friend of mine wrote on the back of a Pirates of the Caribbean postcard that she gave me for Christmas.
Jack: So… why is the rum gone?
Will: I told you. We put it in the egg nog.
Jack: Oh.
The End
