Hi! Still alive! Sorry I keep dropping off the face of the earth. Depression is being rather terrible – like 3 weeks of reducing one med so I could start another turned into a month plus of waiting for a new med to get approved, and then that pill got changed out too…. It’s been fucking with my writing, as one might imagine. Both my motivation and my self-confidence. I am still writing, though! And I’m hoping to share something in the near future. To that end, I wanted to do a quick poll on chapter lengths! Keep in mind that my current plan is to write entire scenes out…

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Hi! Considering how I disappeared before, I wanted to make sure to check-in and let everyone know what’s going on. As I’m sure you all know, I recently finished the rough draft of chapter 14. Before editing it, though, I’m rereading the previously published chapters of Demon Queened. It’s been a long time since I’ve done that, and the last time I did it I was still a bit burnt out – it’s what made me realize that my burnt-out plotting had led me in a bad direction, too. So this reread is partially to make sure my current plans fit well enough, and partially to refresh myself on what…

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So, I’ve recently come to appreciate just how ridiculous my Demon Queened chapters tend to be in length. (I knew they were a bit long, but a couple days back I checked the average chapter length of some of the stories I read. Discovering that the ones with longer updates average at around 4,000 words kinda drove home what an 8,000 word average really meant.) To be honest, I often struggle to write shorter chapters – the reason they’re so long as that it often doesn’t feel like I’ve reached a natural stopping point until 6,000 words in. But, at the same time, that’s mostly me trying to fit an…

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First off, let me apologize for the lack of updates. I’ve been trying to push myself through the next chapter, trying to get things done for the sake of everyone waiting – and in the process, I did what I only recently promised myself not to do, and stressed myself out so much that I became unable to get much done at all. I kept telling myself that since it was something I wanted to do, it was fine to push myself, but that didn’t keep the stress from building. After a few days of trying to force myself right up until midnight – or later – I finally realized…

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So, first off, I want to apologize for how long I’m taking with DQ chapter 14 – or anything else, for that matter. Part of it is due to writer’s block, and some of it is health (both mental and physical.) I’ve got the latter handled for now, and I have a way forward on the former. I want to explain what’s going on with the story, but first I need to warn that this will contain some (relatively light) spoilers. I won’t be explicitly describing events, but I will be discussing what you can expect for the chapter, and hinting at some things that haven’t come up much as…