Long story short. I screwed up.

It's been about a month since my last upload and I'm sorry for not doing anything in the meantime to let you know why that happened. The truth of the matter is that I was embarrassed I missed my own self-imposed deadline for new chapters. That failure on my part turned into an absurdly resilient writer's block that made me miss an update for another week, and then another. Which turned into guilt and doubt pretty soon after that. Even though I work full time that's no excuse for not saying anything. I just got too in my own head about how badly I messed up.

I started this story as my New Year's resolution. It's been a story that's been in my head for a long time and one I really wanted to write. To make sure I'd actually do it instead of putting it off like my other resolutions I just immediately started writing and posting. I started sprinting before I could walk basically. So I had no backlog of chapters at all. That decision alone burned me harder than anything else in hindsight. And now I can really appreciate why so many writers on Royal Road have backlogs.

This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.

I wanted to compete with all the other stories that were posting at faster schedules than I was but honestly it was hard on me. I should have just come out and said that I needed a break, but I can be stubborn to a fault at times. And because of that I had to learn the backlog lesson the hard way. I'm still working on the next chapter, and I plan to actually get myself a healthy backlog of chapters ready for posting but I'm going to need more time. I can't say how long it will take until I have that ready. I might just try and finish the story outright before I post anything again, so I don't mess up as epically as I did with this situation.

And finally, I want to say thank you for reading my story so far. It still blows my mind that I have any readers at all, let alone followers and people who favorited what I've done. I'm not used to being accountable to people in this way, so I'm sorry I let you down.

I'm gonna keep writing. Even if I have to bash my head into the keyboard to get the words out. It may take months, but I promise I'll be back with more Spellbreaker later this year.