I'm sorry.
I hate to try to shove the blame on someone else, but this is all James Patterson's fault.
What happened was… I read Nevermore.
And I was so horribly disgusted and appalled and horrified and distressed and completely and irrevocably disillusioned and upset with the fate of the MR series that I just couldn't write anymore.
Worst writer's block in the world. It physically hurt. I was so incredibly frustrated with myself, I couldn't think of anything at all. My mind was literally blank. I stared at a word doc with 300 words on it for literally a month without getting anywhere before I just gave up.
Then I was in Ireland last week playing soccer (which was flipping AWESOME btw), and consequently wasn't checking my email. I don't know if you guys secretly organized this or something but when I got home I literally had about 130 emails from Fanfiction of people favoriting and alerting and reviewing my whole collection, but mostly School Days. It was really, truly inspiring. I can't believe the dedication some people have, it makes me honored to be a humble little fanfiction writer who started off as a ridiculous newbie in sixth grade with a horrible cliché story and is now lucky enough to have readers like these. I'd like to thank two people in particular, JayJay's-Pie-Stand and awkwardTurtle. eep for kicking my butt in gear.
My plan now is to reread all of School Days and remind myself where I was taking the plot and what I was doing with the characters. I hope you'll pardon the wait. I will try my best to get up a chapter before August because really when it comes down to it I've been a total bitch. I let my anger and disappointment in James Patterson's version affect my own writing, and that's just not cool.
I'm sorry guys. Will you forgive me?
Love,
~TMI~