Prince Mononoke

by Lady of the Spirit

San was the princess of the Emishi tribe, in an arranged marriage with someone she didn't love, and wanted to see what life was like outside of her valley. But then she was cursed by a Demon, forced to leave her village, and is thrown into a battle between humanity and the Gods of the forest. As San tries to stop the killing, she meets a human boy leading the Wolf Gods - Ashitaka.

14. author's apology -not stopping the story

Um. Hello, people.

How many people still follow this story, anyway? 115? Shame on you, you deserve better.

I mean, I guess I'm better than people who go years without updating, and for me it's only been one year. A year and a couple of months.

A year and a couple of months that have been full of nothing but shitty things the universe threw at me.

School, the stress school added, the stress of exams, the stress of realizing I'm going to be graduating High School in a year (less than six months now), then school again, a bunch of classes I struggled with (they've gotten sort of better but not really), trying to come up with a plan for after high school, applying for courses... just a bunch of school and stress and work, and when I had a moment of free time, I'm ashamed to say I couldn't bring myself to work on any of my in-progress stories. Instead I spent my time becoming obsessed with other fandoms - examples include Hamilton, X-Men, the Avengers, The Hobbit (and Lord of the Rings, but less so, because I haven't finished LotR yet) - and not working on the stories I should have been working on.

And then as if all of that wasn't enough, my aunt died last year, and so the stress of that just... I wasn't up for working on anything. And then after that school work just started piling up. The stress of school and post-secondary alone has caused me to cry I think ten times, which is more than I've cried in the last four years of high school combined - when the cause of my crying was school, anyway.

In addition to this, I have been suffering possibly the worst case of writer's block I've ever had. Every time I sat down to try and work on any of my stories, I couldn't do anything but stare at the page. Every word I wrote was wrong, in my eyes, and this thought process was not helpful when it came to my stress level.

While this is my reason for why I haven't updated anything, it isn't an excuse.

I don't know how many people are still into this story or are still waiting for an update, but rest assured, a new chapter will be in the works soon - I just gotta get my shit together first.