Ashley

Hey y’all. I’m so sorry, I know I’ve been MIA for a while. I can’t even say I’ve got a chapter ready yet. Believe it or not life’s been crazy in a good way.
          
          I’ve been on 2 vacations, got a promotion, moved, my best friend is getting married this upcoming weekend, my birthday is in a few weeks, and I’m getting a puppy after my bday 
          
          It’s all insane and fun and crazy and I’ve been so busy that the fics have taken back burner unfortunately.
          
          Something else super fun and amazing, the book I’m writing for hopeful publication is actually starting to tie together and plot points just need connected and written. But it’s got my attention at the moment.
          
          I do still think about my twilight fics and I really only have to write them. I don’t want to publish the bullet points unless I’m sure I won’t ever return to finish the story, but know that it is fully planned. I’m just also on a completely different shift and have more responsibilities now.
          
          I hope you understand  with love,
          Ash

Hi just wondering when the next update to next drop of rain is!! Can’t wait to see how it continues 

The hiatus ends!
          
          New chapter for The First Drop of Rain will be posted at 12pm Eastern Standard Time !!!
          
          I have planned out every chapter to THE END of the fanfic. It looks like it will likely be this year or very early next year if everything stays on schedule.

One chapter up, three more to come, I’ve got to go to bed but the rest will come out before the end of the day tomorrow. I just have some fluff to write in two of the chapters. THEN I will be taking a much deserved break before we continue with the main meat of the plot. Shits about to get real. Sorry in advance.
          
          Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all who celebrate. Stay simply elegant my loves,
          -Ash

hi yall, im terrible I know I know, i forgot to post and then forgot again. Orignally I would have been on hiatus this time of year and plotting and planning but I wasnt going to go on hiatus because of how long I was gone for. Well this isnt a hiatus announcement it is a "give me a little second and I will be dropping multiple chapters" announcement. Ive got four chapters I am working on all at the same time and they will be my christmas present to you all, I am just a little behind on it because it was supposed to be released two and two. HOWEVER I apparently wanted to finish plotting things out (we have a couple time skips coming because I am so excited to show yall what I wrote TWO YEARS AGO and have been building towards this whole time.) SOOO i have the story plotted (but not written and edited) up to chapter 73, and then I have a bunch of passages I have to string together that go into those chapters as well as passsages that were written over the last few years that go into the story after that.
          
          I appreciate all of you and appreciate that you are all so patient with me. As usual you can follow me on tumblr under this same name. That is also just an easier way for me to see whatever yall wanna say to me because in 10 years these notifications have never worked and idk what to do about it. But I usually go on tumblr when I should be writing anyway so thats a 10/10 way to get me back on track.
          
          anyway, have a wonderful day and a very merry christmas. I love you all.
          -Ash

 https://www.tumblr.com/simpleellegance/733631566191935488/the-first-drop-of-rain-update-coming-soon?source=share 
          
          Whats that URL to a tumblr post I made say???? Does that say The FIrst Drop Of Rain Update COMING SOON????? and on the 10th of the month????? knowing full well that the update schedule is for the 11th?????? AFTER MONTHS OF INACTIVITY?????

Hi- I feel really bad about this but I’m being realistic by doing it.
          
          The next post will be postponed. One of my childhood dogs died today (7/31) and I don’t have it in me to write or edit rn.
          
          I Hope y’all understand, I will get a chapter out as soon as I can, but I’m not going to promise when that is I just doubt it will be on time.
          
          With love
          -Ash

Hi, im not sure if there will be an update today. Last week was insane and so im still mentally recovering from that. I can barely string words together this week, and I would rather miss an update day and write something good than post a half assed chapter thats below the average word count I set for myself

Hi everyone! I have some exciting news!
          
          I am going to be publishing another fanfic (not twilight) very soon. As of right now I am looking at the beginning of August. This fanfic is a short one, it will be completed by the time I post the first chapter. There will only be 6 chapters to it, and it is a Percy Jackson and the Olympians fanfic, specifically it is a Luke Castellan fanfic based before the first book. This fanfic will contain spoilers for the first 5 book of the riordanverse due to the focus of the book. This is just what I kind of imagine to have happened in the years leading up to Percy's first summer at CHB.
          
          If you want snippets and updates go follow me on Tumblr, I have already added a few things and grabbed some random passages from the fic to share without context.
          
          Dont let the low chapter count scare you, each chapter covers a lot of ground, the shortest chapter is the final one, which just ties everything together neatly.
          
          Once I get closer to publishing I will announce the schedule for it, hopefully this wont throw off my writing on other fics at the moment but I am kinda hyperfixating so we shall see.
          
          
          Follow me on Tumblr @ SimpleEllegance
          Link in bio

So… that new chapter…