Dear Readers;
After a silence of such length, most of you have, by now, likely assumed that Causes is dead.
You were somewhat right.
My laptop has been out of commission for almost a year now, I just finished my senior year of high school, my personal life has been a wreck, and I have had absolutely no desire to write anything, let alone fanfiction. Frankly, I don't have time for this anymore. I'm trying to get a band off the ground, I'm trying to get my lifts to competition level, I'm trying to find a job, and I have scholarships to keep next semester.
That being said, last night, I guess my muse must have visited, because I very much want to go back to Causes; to the characters and the world that I know so well. Felix, Jazz, Tracy, Kirk - I miss them. And I miss the FF:X cast as well. I admit that my handling of them has been less than stellar, but honestly, I wrote them the way I saw them when I played through the game. I think I was about fourteen. I started Causes when I was in eighth grade. I am now heading off to college. Have I changed since then? Certainly. Has my worldview? Most definitely. Have I matured? Indubitably. I would love to go back and give them all the writing they deserve, but I DEFINITELY do NOT have the time for a rewrite of this story.
And that brings me to the main announcement. I WILL finish it.
I needed a break - a very long one - but I miss writing, I miss the people I met through this site, and I miss the way it felt to see my ideas playing out on paper. I have the next chapter finished, and it has been finished for a while. My outline has been done for a LONG time, so I know exactly what has to happen and when; I've actually trimmed it down quite a bit, and gotten rid of a few superfluous side plots and needless twists. I'll warn you way ahead of time, so you don't get any false hopes: there will be NO sequel. The end will be definite, concrete, and will tie up all the loose ends. I don't write off the cuff; I have a point I want to reach, and I know how to reach it. And, Dear Readers, it is in sight for me.
And with that, I'll go back to life. I'm no longer going to give estimates of time for updates, because I can't keep them at this point. Simply rest assured that I have not forgotten the war-torn Spiran landscape, a bright-eyed Summoner in charge of a precariously-tilting government, or the chain-smoking mercenary standing in the midst of it all.
Darren White