Fic: Posting Update & Ramble: Whys and Wherefores

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Hello all my lovelies! I'm afraid I'm posting today to tell y'all that I won't be posting for a while.  :(  I've been pretty stressed lately and am rapidly approaching something like this, so The Sea After a Storm is officially on hiatus until I have the time to get a nice backlog of chapters. The good news, however, is that when I come back (when, NOT if, I promise) I will have lots of chappies for you. If you're curious about the details…


OK, so here's the sitch: work sucks and it's seeping into every aspect of my life. It started sucking back in October of '08 when my firm did its first round of layoffs. And while there have been ups and downs, lately it's all been down. Currently there are 28 people (of the 70 total) who have been reduced to half time due to a major project going on hold. And while I was lucky enough to stay on at 100% timewise, I still took a 15% paycut. AND I'm working insane hours to make up for the work that can't get done by the people on half-time. So I'm working way more hours for way less pay and basically spending the majority of my time with people who either want to bitch about how much everything sucks or want to defend all the decisions. Either way, I have too much to do to sit around and listen, something that no one seems to get which just drives me batty.

When I finally get home, I've been too tapped to do any writing so I've been trying to squeeze it all in on the weekends and it's just not working. Writing used to be my stress reliever (from work and family and roommate and eating so much I've put back on the 20 pounds I lost last year) but last night I was taking a very late shower after finally doing some much MUCH needed cleaning at my apartment and I realized that I didn't have one word ready to post. And when I started crying I realized that I needed to pull back for a bit. *sigh*

I'm so SOOOO sorry to let y'all down. I hope you'll forgive me and come back when I start posting again. I will finish The Sea After a Storm and I have a sequel to my Christmas AU for teachwriteslash (teaser here). I am NOT leaving! I have one more sin for tw_lucky_7  (after I get it written, LOL) and then I'll just be away for a bit. I have big plans for The Sea After a Storm and I really want to see how my AU ideas pan out. I even worked out a COE fix it (thanks big time to qaffangyrl  and my beloved thrace_adams  for that).

I really just want to give y'all a good story and this is the only way I can figure out how to do that now.

*hugs*
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Comments

[choccy-grl.livejournal.com]

Don't be sad, we will all be here waiting for you. (I may finally get caught up with your fic in your hiatus - I'm about three quarters of the way through V Rule but my reading has taken a backseat to my writing I'm afraid.)
I agree, having a build up of chapters does help take the pressure off. This is meant to be for fun and the pressure to post isn't meant to stress you out. I guess you're like me, you want to post regularly but the quality of what you put out there matters. (that makes me sound really big headed - I'm not saying I'm a good writer but what I put out there is the best that I can do and has normally had at least two rewrites to get it that way.) Of course it helps having a great (and quick) beta like thrace doesn't it :)
Take care of yourself.

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Thanks hun! Sounds like you totally get it, LOL. I hate posting work I know I could make better and I've just been out of time lately to really fine tune. I hope you get some time to read - that's another thing I really want more time to do too!

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p.s. and OMG I would have drowned AGES ago without the awesomeness that is thrace!

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I love her soooo much. Her comments actually make me LOL.

*See your nose icon and raise you teeth*