What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

empatheticstardust asked: i don't know if you've gotten this type of ask recently or if you've answered it before somewhere but i was wondering if you're still going to update Into The Woods? (I hate asking these questions bc it makes me think i'm pressuring you to update)

I don’t at all mind being politely asked what’s happening :)

Yes, I do want and intend to finish Into the Woods. I initially took a break from it to figure out how I to proceed with the ending, which was being recalcitrant, and have since been delayed due to lifestuff and needing to prioritise multiple professional writing deadlines. Most prominently, apart from various reviews and my recent Shakespeare novella, I’ve got a novel coming out in August and the manuscript for the sequel is due in July - plus, I’m co-editing the Speculative Fiction 2015 anthology with @markdoesstuff, and was recently set back a week because plague (take note: toddlers are disease vectors). Oh, and I’m trying to move back to Australia from Scotland in the next few months, but the UK visa authority managed to lose my family’s passports and all our supporting ID documents due to warehouse flooding, so… yeah. I have seen the future, and it involves bureaucratic wrangling.

All that being said, I want to reassure everyone who’s been kind enough to read and follow along with the fic that it is eventually going to be finished. I hate leaving it incomplete, especially because, as I was updating so quickly at the outset, there are people who only invested in it as a WIP on the not unreasonable expectation that they wouldn’t be left hanging for long, and now they have been. I can’t make any promises about dates - and I want to make sure the story gets the ending both it and the readers deserve - but rest assured, I haven’t forgotten it.  

Thank you for reading, and for your patience!

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