//Author's Note 3: The Third One (V.2)//

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G r e e t i n g s . This might be a long one...

This is a restating of my most recent message on my profile since this is relevant to followers of this book, too.

I apologize for my recent period of not publishing anything. Here are all the relevant things that have happened since my latest (and longest) period of inactivity:

- I learned better grammar and expanded my vocabulary somewhat.
- I now narrate in present-tense rather than past-tense (ex. "He says," instead of, "he said").
- I joined my school's marching band/indoor drumline for the first and last time last year and fell in love with them and front ensemble as a whole (glockenspiel/vibraphone gang, where y'all at?).
- I turned eighteen on May 19th.
- I graduated from high school on the 30th of the same month.

Since then, I've been accepted to a few colleges, one of them being my top school out in California, and my mind has continued to reel over how to afford the rest of the $60,000 USD I need to even go there for one year. My plans right now are to postpone admittance and take a year to work (and maybe take a few community college classes online on the side) and save up money.

Anyways, why is all of this relevant? I want to finally start writing here again. Here are the things I want to do from the few years of built-up inspiration:

- Remaster the original "The States Were Personified?" to better fit my current writing style, as well as make more/stronger comments on tropes and clichés that I feel like I missed the opportunity to joke about.
- Draw and write the remaining twenty-five-ish state profiles. I also kind of want to redesign my home state, Virginia. This, nor the last point, should affect the plot progression or character arcs of TSWP - it's more like a polishing, so to say.
- Parody both the "countries read the diaries" and "nobody likes America :(" genres of Wattpad Hetalia fanfictions.
- Write an original Hetalia story of a regular-old human who will do anything to become a country just like the other personifications. Literally anything.

There will absolutely be things in my life that might make things slow, and I can't guarantee any specific dates (especially with how carefully I go about researching for the States fanfiction). However, I'm completely open to comments, thoughts, and angry rant letters about how awful of an author I am and how horrible I am for not publishing anything since, like, 2022.

I am coming back, though. That's pretty much the main idea of this message. :)

(Edit)

Sweet lord, how does this book have almost 6k reads? It's not that good, even I know that, lmao. Do y'all actually like it?

Anyways, quick question, and then I'll be gone.

Would it be better to start a new book altogether with the remastered version of The States Were Personified, or should I cram them beside the original parts if people really like the originals that much?

Or maybe the remastered parts should replace the originals altogether?

Okay, that's all I wanted to ask, sorry to bother y'all again.

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⏰ Last updated: Aug 16 ⏰

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