Dear all of my wonderful readers and reviewers,
I'm afraid I have to do what I never said I'd do, and that's put this story on hold. The reason? Well it's a combination of severe writer's block and realising that I can't continue until I've done some serious re-writing.
I didn't do enough characterisation at the beginning and committed the literary sin of deciding my plot before I thought properly about my characters; who they were and how I wanted them to develop. As a result, I've reached a point where I don't know my characters and therefore don't know how to get them to the end of my story.
Now, I'm not abandoning this! There are parts of it I really like and am so proud of, but I think they can be made much much better. So….I'm gonna take some time off and work on my characterisation skills. Gonna attempt a few wholly original things and then come back to this all refreshed.
In the meantime, I'm so sorry for stopping things so abruptly but it has to be done!
Thanks again for all the time spent reading my story. I really appreciated it
Steph