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Apologies for those who got excited by the update notification. This is not a new chapter.
Some of you may have seen the update to the synopsis, and I've mulling back and forth on this for a while, but I think it’s time to make it official. Sorry readers, but I need to put TSoYH on hiatus and take a break for a few months.
My job recently got dropped into the frying pan. Some of you may know, if you read my A/Ns, that I’m an engineer in construction. And recently our current state-funded building project has gotten tangled up with mid term politics.
Our state’s governor is out for re-election and the scheduled opening of our building has been pushed up 3 months to get ahead of the mid terms so they can host a fancy ribbon cutting ceremony for photo ops. Which means I’ve been working nonstop and have been pulling insanely long hours and I just don’t have the energy or time to think about TWST, much less my fic right now.
I’m really bummed about this because I love this fic. And while I have every intention of finishing it (I anticipate anywhere from 700k to 800k words at its conclusion), I just need a break.
It's been about 3 months since my last upload, and 3 months between uploads is already pretty rare for me. But this next chapter will be on hiatus for another few months. This will be the longest period between chapters since I first started writing the scent of your heart back in 2022.
It just really sucks because Book 5 is the least narratively structured of all the books (not a bad thing, just not conducive to my writing style). It takes place over a longer period of time with things happening off camera and at indeterminate times so it’s already been a slog to plan out, and it sucks that I have to halt all momentum I’ve built up. It makes picking things up much more difficult once I do. But this has to be done. For my own mental and physical health. I’ve already gotten ill a few times from over working myself this past month.
Apologies again. I wish I had better news. I really hope I have time to work on this fic again come September. If I had a say, I’d write fanfiction all day everyday. But that doesn’t pay the bills.
And if you do see me uploading for other fics of mine, just understand that those are probably much smaller fics that require a lot less planning. I write as a stress reliever and a hobby and will continue to do so over the next few months. But TSoYH is a huge undertaking at this point and requires a lot more of my attention than some of my other works.
That beings said. Thank you for all the love and support. I don't think I could keep posting chapters all this time and written so much without all of your loving words and comments. And I also apologize to the new readers who just picked this up (I do read your comments!) only to get a hiatus to the face immediately after. Please be safe and happy and may your banner rolls be blessed and plentiful. See ya'll in September! <3