The Return, Blessed be the return, for it has come.

[Chbon]

Blessed be the return, for it has come.

Was beginning to get a little worried there that Nones had faded away... Which would be a tragedy.

Just for the record, and because no one ever says this enough, I love the story. I look forward to each page every week, and I hope to continue doing so for a long time to come. Only real complaint is that they don't come fast enough... But that's life. Anyways, it's great. Keep up the good work.

[Jo B]

That's very kind of you. I've been finding it difficult to focus on writing since I finished my MA, and this week just turned out to be unusually stressful. Not having a clear idea of where my life's going next and looking for jobs is not a lot of fun. Though I know no writing is pointless - I learned that lesson after Mr Kuan-Ti and Another Place took off - right now it feels like all my writing's getting funnelled into a black hole and that makes it rough.

I really do appreciate hearing from you guys. Nones is largely written for my benefit, for fun and practice - and to get this stuff out of my head - but though I know I get plenty of regular readers, I rarely get any idea of what they think unless I specifically ask. I care a lot about people's critique - I will never stop learning more about writing and I love it enough to constantly work on improving - so any comments are always welcome.

Nones is a long-term project (I hope) and was deliberately chosen as such: with any long-term project there are highs and lows. I'm just going through a little bit of a low at the moment. I don't want Nones to fade away - I'm still annoyed that I haven't done any illustrating for a while but the novel was top priority, so no question there - but it's nice to know people out there don't want it to fade away either. Thank you.

[Jo B]

Still trying to be good and update on a reasonably regular basis... operative word being 'trying'. But, happily, the worst of the plot-straightening-out is over for now so hopefully stuff should be chugging along a bit better.