𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐢𝐫 [ON INDEFINITE HIATUS]

To My Readers

Hi everyone,

If you haven't noticed, this story has not been updated for over a month now and I feel terrible about it, especially since I left you all with that cliffhanger. The truth is, I have no idea how to proceed from here. I went into Salt Air without any forms of planning or outlining, just a rough idea of where I wanted the story to go. As I've said before, this story is the very first multi-chapter story I've ever written. Everything I've written before was less than twenty thousand words, so writing Salt Air was a particularly difficult challenge.

I had a lot of trouble with pacing and the story wasn't going how I intended it to. I wanted them to share their first kiss at Ch. 10 at the soonest, but they did that in Ch 7. Draco was not at all how I wanted to portray him, he became too comfortable with Hermione too fast and I hated that. I've been debating this for over a month now, but I think I have to discontinue Salt Air. There is no future for it. Every time I sit down and try to write a new chapter, I delete it almost immediately because of how forced and terrible it all sounded. I really really don't want to have to do this. You all have shown me nothing but support for this wild ass journey and I cannot express how grateful I am for you all.

I think why a part of me hates Salt Air this much too is because it is canon-compliant and I wasn't able to flex my creative muscles as much as I had liked to. With that being said, I am so so sorry, I'll have to put Salt Air on an indefinite hiatus. IF, and that's a very big if, I ever feel inspired to continue it, I will! This is saddening for me too, believe me, there were so many exciting plot points I wanted to touch upon.

But fear not! This is not the last from me (yeah, unfortunately). I've hinted at it before but I am working on a new dramione story that is 100% my idea and allows me to write whatever the hell I want without sticking too closely to the barriers of canon. I've been working on it since late-January and early-February. I got the first chapter finished yesterday and it has been sent to beta readers (super exciting!! I have those now). I actually have a plan and have outlined this story, so let us pray I don't lose the motivation to continue it. I am really excited for you all to read it, all I will share about it now is that it will have a much much darker theme. If beta-ing goes well, the first chapter will be up as soon as this Friday (PST).

If I get good feedback/reaction from the first chapter, then I'll continue it. If not, then I may or may not. I don't want to be putting all my time and effort into something only one or two people will read, ya know? I'm losing sleep because of writing.

Anyway, that's all from me. If you guys would like, I can upload a new chapter detailing everything I had planned for Salt Air and where it was supposed to go. Let me know!

Thank you all so so much again. I am so appreciative of each and every single one of you, especially the ones who leave the absolute SWEETEST comments.

See you soon!

Athena