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I'm terribly sorry to say I won't be able to continue this story as it stands. This is the last I will be posting for Wandering Souls as it is (though there is good news coming for those still interested, so don't give up on me yet!), so I might as well give a full explanation.
I've managed to write myself into quite a few different kinds of corners, simply because I was making it up as I went along, and this was my first real attempt at writing a story. I'm glad it turned out as well as it did, and I am proud of it in a way, but it got the point where I no longer enjoyed writing, and I'd done basically everything I wanted to. It became more of a chore, and updates took longer and longer to get out, as I'm sure a few have noticed. I also realized that the main part of the ending I wanted to do was based on a few misconceptions, and I wouldn't be able to write or publish it in good conscience, as I do try to keep this canon. (at least as canon as is reasonable with my premise)
Now for the good news! Since most of my issues were coming from the more or less concrete history I'd already written, the only way around them would be to entirely rewrite the whole thing. I sat there and mulled over all the things I would have changed or made better if I did it again, and the idea became more and more appealing. So, instead of abandoning the entirety of my little abomination, I've decided simply to redo it, better than before. With everything I've learned from the first attempt, and a story line of events to follow, it would be hard to make it anything but better (in my eyes at least). Please forgive me my pickiness when it comes to my work, it's actually really kinda scary to post things where anyone could see, so I always try to make it my best work.
Anyway! I've already started on the rewrite. I'm going to post it on here as another story, under the title "Struggling Souls" (totally not a reference to the struggle of writing the thing *coughcough*) once I have a few chapters together. I do apologize, that I wont be able to give you an ending to this story for a while to come, but it is coming! It'll just be in a different form. Thank you for all the support you've given me, and I hope you can forgive my letting you down this time. I promise to come back with something better that can give a satisfying conclusion!
In other news, what kind of changes would you want to see in the second version? You've always seemed to be a rather quiet lot, but I would like to hear what you want from this story. Would you want it to be a slightly prettier version of the original, or do you want it to take a slightly different path, since the original still exists? Would you be interested in more events and plot developments, or more daily life and sap? I'm really curious why someone would choose to read my little abomination, lol
Take care, and I hope to have Struggling Souls up soon for you.
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