I've been kind of putting this off, but I think it's fair to go ahead and get it out there. Over the past month I have been doing a lot of work, both with writing my Inkfort Press Writing Derby entry, and some real world stuff that has taken up a lot of my free time. During all of this, I have tried to work on The Weaver's Burden simultaneously, but my derby entry sort of took priority since it has a time constraint that I have to stick to. I recently found the time to look back at some of my old entries and notes, since I wanted to check back on my old writing and check on the direction before I started again.

I can't say I was happy with what I read. Maybe I was being overly critical of myself, but I really was not satisfied with a lot of aspects of my ongoing story. TWB was my first time writing and posting something for others to read, and I frankly had no clue what I was doing. I pantsed the entire thing, and I feel like it was more a series of cool ideas and loose scenes written to justify them than an actual story that I wanted to tell. So I have two ways that I want to move forward:

- Start over from scratch.

or

- Put the story on ice and work on another project.

Now, I really don't make this call lightly, since I know I had a fair amount of people who enjoyed the story, but at the present I cannot really find much inspiration for writing TWB. I wish I could show you guys the story I have been working on in the meantime, but the derby is anonymous and so I have to keep my lips shut. But I encourage you to look into the contest if you haven't already, and maybe see if you can guess as to which one I am! Maybe after the contest ends I'll spill the beans, but for right now it has to be kept secret.

So does this mean I am done writing? No, no way, not by a long shot. I feel guilty putting TWB on hiatus, but really I would rather do this than keep people waiting or put out half assed work for the sake of continuing.

Outside of my derby submission, I also have something else cooking. It's still early in the works, but I will say I intend to either be a spiritual successor to TWB, or a rewrite of the story. Once I start writing out scenes, I will make my decision.

I will say again, I am sorry to everyone to the lack of progress and updates, and regardless of what I chose to do with this side project I am working on, I hope you stick around and enjoy it.

If you are interested in what I might be doing in the future, I have my discord link in my bio. I'll post updates there.