To the followers of Deep Waters,
Yeah if you haven't noticed already, there's kind of been a year long wait on Chapter 7. Even before that the time between chapters was ridiculous. So here's the honest truth.
When an author has no direction for a story but only bits and pieces that she believes to be pure gold, unfortunately, the rest of the story will not come easily. There will be many many long hours of brainstorming and hating your ideas and the words that come out of your mind. This leads to a loss in motivation to even write and thus, the year long chapter wait is created. I had no idea where I was going with this and to tell you the truth, I still don't know where this is taking me. Simply bits and pieces :) So I kind of gave up. Fanfiction and writing was never my strongest suit in the first place so why should I continue?
I was content to leave the story to be unfinished for all of eternity and to haunt those who happen to stumble upon my words until I got an email. You see, every time a new review is left or a person follows the story, I get a lovely little notification that used to make my day when I was still invested in this. Anyway, a year after the last chapter and I get an email telling me I've entrapped yet another story follower and that this poor soul, like many others, had left a review pleading for more. So I thought, why the hell not? I may not be as big of a fangirl I was back then but after rereading Deep Waters I was almost nostalgic for it. (Does that even make sense?) So I went down to the dinosaur computer that I used to write on, found the document for this story and sent it to my new laptop. There, the words flowed out of me for a new chapter and I ended up writing more than I have ever before. What's even crazier is I had fun doing it.
But here's the catch. I'm a busy human trying to live a very active and stressful life and still be able to marathon Netflix and read books and honestly just nap. At the end of the day, writing isn't really at the top of the list. I wish it was, but whoo is it exhausting. The onlyreason this revival even happened was because the timing of that fateful little email coensided (crap another word that isn't existing according to my spell check but I know it exists) with my fall break. But I vow to try. I promise to try as hard as I can to at least write once a month (still better than the original schedule) and to try to revive the inner fangirl inside of me to bring forth my version of Percy and Annabeth.
So to my followers who have actually cared about this story and wanted it to continue, thank you. You inspired me to write more and hopefully some of you will still take interest.
Much love, Kayla