Hey everyone.
First of all, thank you to everyone for the support and the reviews and the emails and the PMs. It's nice to know I'm missed.
Secondly, I'd like to say I'm sorry.
I'm not that sorry I haven't updated, given everything that's happened (more on that in a moment), but sorry that I haven't posted THIS update until now. Transparency is important and I know some of you have felt abandoned. Please know, that wasn't what this was.
So... the last six months or so of my life have been the hardest. My dad had a major motorcycle accident, I lost vision in my eye for a few days, I lost my health insurance, got it back, scaffolding fell on my car, a homeless guy threw a rock through my car window (months apart), I made some really bad drunken social decisions, then, just as I felt things were looking up at the New Year, I got the flu and before recovering, got hit in the head by a falling piece of ice from as much as 180 feet up.
Let me tell you, there was blood EVERYWHERE. It was bad. Like, really bad. Like, screaming at the top of my lungs because I was worried I was actually going to pass out and/or die before help came. Two doctors had to hold my scalp together to staple it shut. I still haven't seen the "Carrie"-esque photo of me lying on the sidewalk I convinced a caring citizen to take of me. I no longer have much pain and my hair is starting to grow back and the staples are out. I still can't sleep on my right side, but it'll come eventually, right?
For all these reasons, and more (there's a lot more bad luck-style crap that happened that I just... CAN'T post on the internet), I put ALL things non-essential in my life on hold. I kept thinking it would just be a couple more weeks THE WHOLE TIME. So, I'm sorry.
Back to the update: I have started writing again. It's a little slow-going, as I'm not in the habit. You can hopefully expect new chapters to Less Than Lucky and Three Shades of Fifty in about a week. Defiant will hopefully be the week after.
Again, I want to write these stories. I want your feedback on where these stories should go! Because I don't like writing outlines for stories with much detail because it bores me to DEATH, I keep all my ideas sort of floating in my head. That's great because I feel it gives my writing a certain amount of urgency (I need to get it out of my head before I forget that awesome thought I just had), it means that if you take a half-year-long break, you might forget some of your plans. So please, let me know what should happen. It might even trigger some good memories of what I'd been thinking before.
AND FINALLY, Thank you again. Seriously. You guys are awesome.
