Hello and thank you so much!
I loved writing The Measure of the World, and am mostly very happy with how it turned out and with the response to it. But it was also something I knew would be daunting and all-consuming, and I almost talked myself out of writing it a few times before really committing. It exists because it became a hyperfixation I felt I had to tend to, during a peculiar time in my life when I had a lot of difficult feelings I needed to explore and express. It was very rewarding, but at times exhausting and stressful.
My life circumstances are different to what they were when I chose to start Measure (better!), and while I've done some work on older stories I had lying around and have written a few exploratory drafts for new stories (mostly original work), I haven't yet found a new writing project I want to commit to in the same way. I am actively spending time trying to find a new project, because I love writing, but my personal process involves a lot of trying new stories and discarding them if they don't feel right, so I often don't have a lot to show for it, until I suddenly have a lot.
I have imagined writing follow-ups to Measure, including possibly ones focused more on Maiev and Alleria (the dark horse ship of Measure, as it turned out!), but I don't yet have an idea that feels urgently compelling the way Measure did. I've also had some thoughts about shorter fics, either focused on Sylvaina or Malleria or possibly other ships or fandoms entirely, but I'm actually terrible at writing concise short fiction, as is obvious to anyone who's read Measure. Or... well, this post.
All this to say - I check in from time to time to see how folks are liking Measure, and I still often think about that story and those relationships and that writing, and sometimes I wonder where that story might go next. But right now I don't have any upcoming fic.
If I do, I'll likely stick with this account, even if it's a different fandom!
In the meantime, be good to each other 💜
