The usual Stardust whine
Stardust is difficult (yes, I'm still working on that). The next chapter is a hard one, although I struggled with all of the last few, but this one is, essentially, one long chapter of saying goodbye (you didn't think I would spare them that, did you?) and I'm honestly not even in that kind of tragic headspace. And while I know what needs to happen on an emotional basis I don't know how that's actually going to play out, so I have a hard time sitting down and forcing it out.
And then I also feel like I shouldn't wait to long to get the following chapter up, because this next one ends on a goodbye but the story doesn't end there for them, and I don't want people to accept that as the end- but I also don't want to put an author's note saying no worries, it totally gets better- and in all honesty I can't stand stories that use a breakup or something as their main showdown and I can understand anyone who bows out at that point.
I sort of want my readers to have faith that all will end well; want them to want to keep reading in order to find out how; but I can't make them wait too long. So I don't just need to get on the ball with the next chapter, but with all of them, and does that sound familiar to you at all? -.-
And then I also feel like I shouldn't wait to long to get the following chapter up, because this next one ends on a goodbye but the story doesn't end there for them, and I don't want people to accept that as the end- but I also don't want to put an author's note saying no worries, it totally gets better- and in all honesty I can't stand stories that use a breakup or something as their main showdown and I can understand anyone who bows out at that point.
I sort of want my readers to have faith that all will end well; want them to want to keep reading in order to find out how; but I can't make them wait too long. So I don't just need to get on the ball with the next chapter, but with all of them, and does that sound familiar to you at all? -.-