Hey everyone.
I'm going to keep this one short, as there is only one, maybe two big things that I want to announce.
So, I'm gonna get the bad, and the extremely frustrating one out of the way first. We're unfortunately looking at a small hiatus right now.
It shouldn't be too long. But I at least wanted to say it, rather than just taking off a whole month and then quipping with "Oh, of course this is normal." like I didn't just engage in full radio silence.
As for the reasons, it's a combination of both the college life and the planning of Act 2. College life, as in, it doesn't look like I'm going to have the best quartile. I'm one week into it and the courses that I had to undertake for my bachelor's are way more assignment and self-study heavy than before. For context, I'm talking about 2 courses right now and in my last year, I had quartiles where I had to take 4 courses with less workload. And on top of that… I don't want to harp on it too much but, I didn't have the best quartile before this either. I'm most likely looking at a resit for one of my exams on top of all this that I have to prepare for and…
I'm sorry, but I just need to have one thing to work on my own timetable.
I feel bad about it too, especially since I've been seeing a recent spike in favorites and followers, and… to those who are going to have this be their first live upload, I don't know what to say. I will try to come back stronger.
As an update, Chapter 22 is fully planned out and there are several scenes already finished, but it's looking more and more like it will also get the Chapter 15 treatment of being split into two parts. Sorry for breaking my pinky promise on top of that, I guess.
Once I bounce back from this hiatus, I will drop both parts at once, as an apology.
As for Act 2 and the planning of it, I have started going over them, just to basically reinforce what each chapter is going to have, better in my head. And doing that while I'm also writing one of the said chapters, has been really difficult. So, I'm also doing this hiatus to put all my energy into the planning of it again, instead of swinging back and forth like a pendulum in a grandfather clock.
(And, to actually give a bit of specifics, Two Heroes is the main culprit. I thought I had it figured out, with the types of changes I wanted to do, but… with a week into its rework, I can confidently say that I was maybe a bit too ambitious, and I'm glad I noticed it now rather than later.)
But, before I leave, I did save the good news for last.
Now, instead of full radio silence like ast time, instead, I have opened a twitter account.
Just follow HeroForceFanfic and I will try to put a tweet out… weekly? (I don't know, i never used twitter.)
It's still a bit under construction, but now, at least you will get to hear something from me every week as well as when I have any kind of progress updates. For example, if I ever figure out the damn Two Heroes movie, you will know.
Trust me. You'll know.
(I don't hate the movie, but just spending a week on it and still not feeling satisfied with the planning of it is a unique kind of pain I don't wish on anyone)
I will also probably announce when the hiatus is ending there, since I don't want to say anything now and set myself up for failure.
One last thing I want to say before I leave is that:
Just a warning. This announcement will be deleted once the hiatus ends so review with that in mind. I only kept the last one around since I had asked for suggestions.
In any case, I hope you have a great rest of your day. We're sorry for this announcement, but we think it will be for the better in the long run. See you guys in the actual Chapter 22!
