Hello, my friends!
Wow, so it's been an incredible amount of time since I last posted on this story. During this time, I have been thinking a lot about this story. I've come to realize that the character I have created is not someone who I have come to enjoy, and I feel that she is just...plain.
Estel is plain and rather typical for me. I know some of you love her, but I think that there needs to be much more depth to her. There needs to be something else than a damsel-in-distress. There needs to be a strong-willed female, and I have grown rather tired from reading all these novels where the female suffers from a constant self-deprecation. It did not become clear to me until a review many months ago.
It kinda sucks because I've written thirty eight chapters already (oops). However, I have come to a decision. I will rewrite this story with the same OC, just improved. I'm rewriting it not only for you, my friends, but also for myself. I'm rewriting it in order to instill a strength and power that we, as women (readers and authors), possess and need to emphasize because we're not damsels-in-distress. But I'm still going to include romance, he he he, because hell yeah!
I am, in no way possible, condemning you for taking joy in the cliches. They are classics, after all, and still art. It's just that for myself, I would not sit right if I continued writing about a character who has followed the same path as many other dainty characters.
With that, thank you for those who stick by me. There's no hard feelings if you leave; we're all human.
Much love,
Ro