Just My Luck

12. Gotta have hairspray

(No changes were made, I came to reference something and noticed some typos) July 28, 2017 edit

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Happy Father's day everyone!! Again, sorry for the hiccup! I still haven't completely recovered my outline, but I'm working on it!

Do me a favor and hug your dads (or father-figures in your life), send them a cool gift, cook them something, tell them they're total dorks, anything! I lost my dad two years ago, so I'm just going to write him a letter of all of my accomplishments that he's missed that I know he would have been excited to know about. ENJOY YOUR DADS!! CHERISH THEM!! YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN THEY MIGHT JUST SUDDENLY DROP DEAD FOR NO REASON AT ALL 

There is a dad in this chapter, but uh, well Félix chews him out, so kind of opposite vibe for Father's day? O_o I guess it makes sense since Félix's dad isn't around I suppose so maybe he like has this internal "I dislike all dads"? kind of thing? Hrmmm I don't think that's quite it!

Thank you for your patience and support! It helps keep me motivated! The new chapter is below last week's announcement!

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I know for SURE that this chapter is going to be late for multiple different reasons, most of them being personal

but my biggest problem at the moment is this: I was working on the outline I have for Félix, so that when the time comes to write a chapter, I always have a small synopsis I wrote for future me to go off of, and so I have a sense as to where I want to story to go, how I want Felix in each miraculous episode (I literally can't think of anything for Princess Frangrance X_X everything else is already planned and accounted for) and of course stuff that happens in between the episodes, which, considering our lovable grumpy cat rarely transforms into any kind of super hero so the story is more character driven than anything, are extremely important. (Especially for Mr Grump-Grump's arc and development) 

I first started the outline WAAAAAAY back when I first started this whole thing (March 2017? I think? Wow! It's been that long?!) and at the time, I gave myself enough chapter synopsis to get me through second semester, and I'd add more to it once summer hit (okay, so it's kind of like TWO outlines? one is all about what I NEED to happen, and the other is more detailed and which chapters they're going to occur)

So here I was, working on the outline, making sure I'd have plenty to keep me updating smoothly during Marching Band next semester (YES IMMA COLLEGE BAND GEEK FIGHT ME). And IT WAS SOOOOO PERFECT!!!! I was filling in some holes that were kind of in the way of certain arcs I wanted to do, I added a whole new thing that deepens Felix's character, it was beautiful and amazing and I could probably never replicate that again

Repeat: I COULD PROBABLY NEVER REPLICATE IT AGAIN

guess which idiot messed up the "Save" settings and LOST ALL PROGRESS I MADE on the outline *angry screaming at my past self for not paying more attention* 

So here's what I have to say: 

- 1: This is not an immediate problem, as I stated earlier, I created an outline to last me through 2nd semester, and with that unforeseen hiatus I took in April-May, I still have chapters planned out (all the way to 18!) So fret not! 

-2: At this moment in time, my goal will be to rebuild what I lost from the outline, and try to reconstruct the perfection I had earlier (or maybe make it better) so, I will try to at least get a chapter out once a week, with no set day, MAX every two weeks 

-3: When I found out that I had lost my outline I was having a pretty rotten day already, but you know what. I saw that this story literally got 70 more views basically overnight, got a vote, and got 4 unique readers in one go (which I guess it's not much but 4 is my favorite number and it's the highest I've ever gotten) And THAT MADE EVERYTHING BETTER AND WONDERFUL!!! Honestly, I actually considered abandoning this story after all the bad stuff that was happening (okay, slight exaggeration, but I did consider another hiatus), but after seeing that and feeling so loved and read by viewers I VOWED TO MAKE IT EVEN BETTER AND FIX MY OUTLINE ASAP AND KEEP THE CHAPTERS GOING