Thank you for the compliment regarding UTCM ♡
I am sorry. I have no idea how long this ask has been lingering in my inbox, but I suspect quite a while.
My apologies for not responding.
I have been on hiatus for a long while ( 2 years already?) due to health issues. Covid hit me hard 😔
'Underneath the Crescent Moon' has also been on hiatus for the same reason.
I still have no intention of abandoning it, but I still cannot tell when I will continue again.
I got infected by covid not once, but three times. The first and third infection really assaulted my body. The third happening like a month and a half after the second when my body's defenses were down completely.
Covid chewed me up and spat me out, sort to speak and I am struggling to form a normal functioning human being out of the remains it left behind.
I am still rehabilitating but progress is insanely slow.
I intend to become a bit more active again, but cannot predict the frequency of how often I will be active here.
Memory loss, aphasia and all other excisting brain damamage actually is an author's nightmare.
Sort of losing the ability to write, as in story writing, was like losing a part of my personality. Even though I am relearning it and have started to write again it still feels like a small part of me is still gone forever.
As an author you develop a certain style over time. Like some sort of signature. A way of writing that is you. Defines you. I had to refind it. Relearn it. But it still feels like just a copy of myself. I see me in there, but different. I hope this makes any sense at all. 😅
A continuation like UTCM is a comitment. And on bad days my brain is a mess. To update sporadically is not what I want.
To you and all other fans of UTCM I hope you can bare more patience 🙏 I will return
And I want to implore to everyone:
Please do NOT feed my fic to one of those new AI writing bots as I see people do to unfinished and on hiatus stories 🙏 to have them finished and repost them as their own.
I do not give permission for that.
My story comes from the heart. A real author's heart. I started it and will finish it. If I wanted to, I could have used an AI bot myself. But I want to continue writing it. By using my own mind and not by a robot.